I told y'all about Hunter pulling up our whole garden back about a month ago.  Well, me and Barb re-planted it at the end of May.  It's way behind where it should be, but looking pretty good.  It's sad cause I would have been getting veggies out of it by now.


One of the things I want to remember for next year is to buy the right weed cover fabric!  This year I didn't want to wait to find the right fabric, so we used the cloth-like fabric.  We should have used a different type.  The kind we normally use is more plastic-feeling.  It's not really plastic, but has a different feel to it than the other kind.


The kind we used this year tears way to easily.  It just made a big old mess out in the garden.  I really regret not waiting and getting the right kind.  The other kind works so much better and requires hardly any weeding.  With all the holes in there now, I will have to weed all the time.  Very depressing!

Our whole family worked together to plant our garden a few weeks ago.  We found a volunteer lettuce from last year.  A week later it mysteriously disappeared.


My husband tilled the dirt for us and my oldest son used a loop to help and make the mounds for the rows.


Then we put down weed cover to keep the weeds at bay. I really hate weeding the garden!


I was so glad when we finished and couldn't wait until we could harvest fresh veggies!


Then when I went outside yesterday, I discovered Hunter had pulled up every single plant that was growing!


I am so depressed! I have to start all over. I was really mad at Hunter at first, but then I realized he was probably just trying to help. After all I told him we were going to eat the things growing there. Maybe he was picking the "food" for me?


I guess I'm going to give it another shot and plant a few more things. Wish me luck!

Our garden seems to be doing really well so far. 


The okra, watermelon, and cantaloupe are small, but looking good.  So, are the green beans. 


One of the cucumbers has blooms on it.  The zucchini are big, but no blooms yet.


The first squash that I planted are huge and have blooms and little squash. 


It won't be long before we have some fried squash for supper!


I was worried the lettuce wouldn't produce since it's been so hot, but tonight, I picked some and we were able to have a salad from the garden.  My hubby said it was light and so much better than store bought lettuce.


How is your garden?

We started planting our garden for this year at the end of March.  We got a used tiller last year, so Ronnie tilled the soil and got it ready for me to plant.


The garden isn't quite as big as last year, but almost.  So far, we have planted squash, okra, lettuce, cantaloupe, cucumber, green beans, watermelon, potatoes, and zucchini.


The chickens got out one day and ate some of my veggies that had sprouted up.  Originally, we had planted onions and eggplant too.  But, either those didn't come up, or the chickens ate them. 


I clipped the chickens wings so they couldn't get out again, and replanted the things that were ate.  I didn't replant the onions and eggplants, though.  I used that place for something else.


Since they ate part of what I planted to begin with, not everything will come up at the same time, which in a way is good.  We still have corn to plant and then we'll be done with the planting.  The strawberries from last year came back and they are delicious!


Are you having a garden this year?  If so, have you planted already?

Saturday night our family celebrated Earth Hour by cutting all the lights and tvs off and going outside. 


My oldest son had been wanting to roast marshmallows, so he drug all the old limbs and branches into where we are planning to plant our garden and my husband started a bonfire.


I went and got all the things needed to make smores.  We used to make them all the time in scouts and Mitchell had really missed them. 


Hunter didn't really care for the smores or roasted marshmallows.  So, he just kicked back with some candy.  In my chair!  He kept stealing it from me, even though he had his own.  He had been playing in the dirt and boy was he a mess!


I actually remembered to get a picture with me in it!  Me and my gorgeous, wild boys!  Gotta love them!


We had such a great time!  We're going to have to do this more often!

Today it got to 70 degrees!  It's hard to believe that until a few days ago we had been having below normal temps.  It was so nice today I really started dreaming of my garden for this year.  The pictures from this post are from last year's garden.


I was getting ready to order some seeds for this year when I heard about Hometown Seeds.  They don't sell any genetically modified seeds.  This is very important, as I want my food to be as natural as possible.  I can't wait to have fresh veggies from our garden again!


Hometown seeds has a great offer right now on their Survival Seeds.  You get 16 different varieties of Non-Hybrid GMO free seeds for $39.99.  If frozen they would last up to 10 years!  It never hurts to be better prepared.


In exchange for this post I will receive a package of Survival Seeds from Hometown Seeds.

Back in June, I joined in with The Blind Pig and The Acorn's corn experiment.  Tipper wanted to find out if corn planted on good planting days turned out better than corn planted on bad planting days.  Tipper and a few of the others had problems with their tests, so they weren't able to finish them.  I don't know who else was able to finish their test, but I wanted to share my results.


The corn I planted on the good days did end up being taller than the bad day corn.  It was probably 18 inches or so taller.  In the picture above, the good corn is on the right side.  That was the biggest difference.  Both produced corn, however some evil critters ate more of it than we did!  We probably ended up with about 6 good ears that were edible.  There were maybe a couple more ears on the good side.  I don't think that's enough to decide if the planting day made a difference or not with ear production.



It was fun participating in this little experiment with Tipper!  Maybe next year I can figure out how to keep all the creepy crawlies away from my garden.

You may remember I planted potatoes this spring. All summer I had been dreaming of a nice potato harvest. I read a little on potato gardening, but I must have done something wrong. I thought for sure there would be a lot of potatoes when we dug them up. But, that's all we got in the picture below.


I put dirt on top whenever the plants grew, leaving just the tops of the plants out. They grew to about 4 feet tall and flowered then after a while the plants died. I waited about 6 weeks before digging them up. And that's all we got, enough for one meal. So, all you gardeners out there, please tell me where I went wrong.

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If y'all will remember I am helping Tipper at Blind Pig and the Acorn with her corn experiment. Something dug up most of her corn, so for her, the experiment isn't going so well. But, my corn seems to be doing good, so far. It's been planted about a month now. In the picture below the corn on the right was planted on the good day and the corn on the left on the bad day. They were planted 3 days apart. The corn on the right is taller, but so far that is the only difference.


Not all of the corn came up, but there are about 8 good and 8 bad that did come up. So, as long as the nothing messes it up, hopefully my corn will keep growing and I'll have some corn to eat! Ignore all the grass you see in the pictures. We didn't have our own tiller and had been borrowing my cousins to do the garden. They had been busy with the tiller so we haven't been able to use it in a long time. But, recently we got our own used one we found on craigslist. This is it in the picture below. Since everything else in the garden is dead, my husband can now plow it up. So, it should look better soon!