Howdy blogworld.
I’m so pleased to be greeting you from way down deep in the heart of Texas.
The last time I was in Houston, my parents and grandparents had just planted a garden. I wasn’t all that impressed, really, as it just looked like a bunch of dirt and seemed like a kinda boring hobby to me. Over the past few months, Mom has been sending me photos from her cell phone of some of the new growth but the pictures haven’t been of stellar quality so I could not believe it when I saw the garden with my own eyes! It still has a way to go but I cannot believe it is already bearing some fruit!
I’m so excited for my parents and grandparents to have this new little garden! My grandparents, who are in their mid to late seventies, tend to the garden every single day. Each time the four of them grow something new they quarter the vegetable and eat it together, even if it’s a tiny little Roma tomato. I’m also pretty floored. I do not have a green thumb. A few years ago Colin gave me his cactus plant to take care of for a few months and I killed it in record time. I’ve even been known to starve a variety of bamboo, which, according to Colin, is pretty impressive. And please do not get me started on the rosemary I tried to plant during my cooking craze. The death of the rosemary plant was the final straw, not to mention a prophetic foreshadowing signifying the doom of my overall Betty Crocker agenda.
Do you have a garden? If so, what kind of fun stuff do you grow? If you’re like me and you don’t have a green thumb, what is your latest hobby? My latest hobby is photography. I can’t get enough. I’m driving my entire family bonkers.
I also do not have a green thumb. I’m always killing stuff. Good thing I can take care of my son! The hobby I can’t get enough of right now is reading! I can’t wait till I get some quiet time to sit down and read…fiction books, books about our faith and our God, parenting books, and fitness magazines!
I can relate to you, Amy. I have a notorious black thumb, and my current hobby is also reading. Love it!
Melissa, your pictures are stunning, as always. You have a real gift!
Melissa,
My latest hobby is just sitting at my easel and painting. Also, like you, I love photography. Everyone gets tired of a lens in their face, but one day they will be glad. When I am painting, I put on Travis and turn him all the way up. Drives my children crazy until Shackles comes on. It is a good thing to distract my mind from the negative things and to focus on Him.It is hard for the enemy to enter into a room where Travis is singing to the top of his lungs.LOL I tried to garden and grow bell peppers and watermelon one year and they did good until the deer discovered where they were. The deer all of a sudden aren’t that cute when they eat what you want to grow. Got any suggestions for that.
Blessings..
Melissa, that is a wonderful picture of your mom!! You did a great job!
Your pictures are gorgeous. Keep it snapping away, cause though you may not have a green thumb, you defintely have an eye behind the camera! I too am crazy about photography and just got done taking a photography class. I’m thrilled I can now shoot in Manual. Yipee! What did you shoot these in?
Hey Kristen, So fun that we have a similar hobby and very neat that you had the opportunity to take a formal class. I’ve been making myself shoot manually for the most part as well although these were shot in Aperture Priority mode (with a 90mm 2.8 macro lens).
I’m here to say that I am needing an “E” for effort in the cooking department. I decided this was my year to really learn how to cook great and wonderful meals should I ever be blessed to have a husband. We are still working on that one….
As for the newest hobby, I’d have to say that its learning to do without…wait for it…THE TV!!…(gasp!). Yes, i know, somebody doesn’t have the tv in her house. How do I live/eat/breathe? So learning how to survive with being so cut off from today’s world is my hobby. I’m unfortunately turning to checking out movies from the library and books too but had a heart to heart with Jesus who is letting me know that His Word holds all the adventure i need right now.
Oh and I’m proud to say that i grew some instant cat grass for my cat, Madi, so that turned out quite alright. Plus I’m growing a purple plant in a vase that I do not even know the name of….
welcome to my world…LOL
Blessing to you!!!
We have a nice sized garden: pumpkins, cantaloupes, bell peppers, jalapenos, broccoli, tomatoes, asparagus, onions, squash, zucchini, cucumbers, potatoes, sweet potatoes & strawberries. My kids love to help pick, although sometimes my 3 1/2 year old son & 17 month old daughter pick green strawberries or very small squash. lol! We give a lot of veggies away to friends & neighbors and love to do so! In fact, I took the kids on a wagon ride this morning and delivered some veggies before it got too hot. We also planted herbs this year; basil, rosemary, dill, oregano and chives. Hope you get to enjoy some fresh veggies while you are home. ~Blessings!
We have a VERY small garden. Two tomato plants, one squash, one cucumber and on rosemary plant. They are all flourishing but not veggies yet. The plants look like a million bucks, but NOTHING. Finally on one of the tomato plants we had a tiny green tomato. My two year old and I have watched it every day. We were so excited. It got pretty big and almost ready to turn red. We went to Tweetsie Railroad for 4th of July weekend and we come back……GONE is our lone tomato. Owen was so sad….”squirrell at my mato, mommy.” That is our presumptions anyway. Oh, well, we will keep watering and fertilizing.
I don’t have a green thumb either. My mother could grow anything. I am thinking about trying a garden next year.
For those that get tired of fried Okra, here is a quick, easy, healthy alternative. It’s really good. Slice your okra, heat a tablespoon or so of olive oil in a skillet (depends on how much okra you are cooking), and “fry” until browned or desired amount of doneness. Remember you only want enough oil to saute, not really fry. Don’t cover the okra in oil or it will be mushy.
Love you Moore ladies and Siestas!
I’m definitely going to try this. I usually make okra and tomatoes. Thanks, they sound wonderful and crunchy!
Is it even humanely possible to grow tired of fried okra?
One part flour, one part corn meal, an egg to bind it to the cut up okra if you like, some salt and a ton of freshly cracked black pepper fried in a little vegetable oil…I think I just figured out what we’re having for dinner tonight……..
sorry. Humanly. Humanely is how I hose down my 200 pound Newfoundland in this 100 degree heat.
abbensmom,
hahaha…that whole exchange was funny! and WHAT a dog!! : )
my little lapdog….
I wish I could post photos of my garden because you’d laugh. It’s not really a garden. It’s three pots on the patio! One has basil, one a tomato plant and the last one has two pepper plants. In the house we lived in for 22 years, I had a huge garden with raspberries, rhubarb and every kind of veggie you could imagine (except okra, which is not eaten here in Colorado, unless you are a die hard fan).
I loved your photos..the sunflowers were my favorite! Enjoy your time in Houston. We loved it there in January. It is beautiful!
I don’t have a green thumb either! I’ve tried to grow 3 orchids and killed all of them! I have one house plant that looks like orange seaweed that’s lasted about 1.5 years but that’s it. I’ve named him Ferdanand and I love him since he’s the only thing that will grow for me! ha!
I have some health issues that keep me from being able to take care of a garden but I can’t wait till they are over and I can try out my green thumb.
In the meantime I got a house plant. Its one of those bamboo twirly things. I wanted to see if I could keep it alive. I should also mention my husband HATES houseplants with a burning passion. So far its still alive and kicking. Even though he has threatened many times that I will come home and it will be gone. I named the plant defiance haha.
(sidenote you should know were happily married this is just how we tease each other.)
Yes! I have had my Carolina garden for two summers now filled with flowers, peppers, cukes, zukes, purple hull peas, beans, okra, collards, chard and tomatoes. Our two mischevieous dogs realized they loved tomatoes just about as much as we did and our tomatoes mysteriously started disappearing from the vine. Lately we’ve been finding them (green and red) all over the yard! We’ll be putting a fence up next year. Ha!
I used to garden with a passion, veggies and perennials, but have lost interest in recent years as quilting has taken over. I love to “fondle” fabrics and play with color! When the quilt is done, I love to bless others with my stand-in hug, meaning I can’t be with someone for an in-person hug, so my quilt can do it for me.
I’m trying to grow tomatoes, but they refuse to turn green. I gave in last week and had fried green tomatoes, but I really, really, really, really want a fresh-from-the-garden tomato sandwich!!
My latest hobby would be sticking to reading and bible study. While my husband may say I have no hobbies I LOVE to exercise and study. Anyway, I tried to plant peppers and tomatoes this year…they withered away and died. I almost killed some peace lilies from our best friends funeral. My mother in law so graciously took them to her house where they have been resurrected from the dead.
I felt bad when morgan put her hands over her face and cried about her ‘matoes. I thought that I was keeping a plant alive years ago but it turns out that when my roommate and I both got married…she was the one keeping it alive. I can look at a plant…or breathe on it and it will shrivel up and die. ugh
Definitely PHOTOGRAPHY!! Have you checked out picnik.com or MPIX.com? Do if you haven’t as you will love it!!!!
Hey Melissa,
My husband and I moved into a new house in November, it has a large back yard that had been carefully tended to by the elderly couple that lived here before us. It was immaculate! Flowers, fruit trees, herbs, vegetables, and three ponds joined together by a couple of waterfalls. We were so excited when we moved in to inherent what looked to us, like the ultimate nature walk in our back yard. Well, it’s July now and I am not sure what it is. It’s not a nature walk that for sure. We’ve been gone for the majority of the summer so far, and last weekend when we got back we went in the back yard and well…I am not sure whose yard we walked into. There’s weeds five feet tall, or at least I think they are weeds. There are a lot of other things way out of control back there, but it I don’t know if they are weeds or not. Yesterday we found a grape vine with grapes and a whole bunch of mint. Thus, I am afraid to pull things out because I don’t know what they are. I feel like we are not making any progress in restoring the beauty that once existed back there. We have a lot of work cut out for us the rest of this summer, and the one after that, and all the summers following. I hope we can tame the yard before it swallows up our house.
I am a photographer, went to college and everything to take pictures of beautiful things. Hopefully I can take beautiful pictures of my back yard soon, and if not…pictures of a back yard swallowing an house will probably turn out pretty cool too!
Well, you are doing splendidly at your new hobby! Thanks for sharing the beautiful photos. I am so impressed – with the garden and the pics! You’ve got me smelling the fresh produce and salivating!
My family and I have a garden, and quite a few fruit trees. Our kids enjoy picking the fruit or veggies, and sitting on the swing and eating them right away. Rarely does any of the produce make it into the house. It’s a great family event that gets us out of the house, and enjoying the natural world that God created for us. We have the least idea place for it too, and it’s still a blessing. We have home right up against a major freeway here in Sacramento. We get to hear the traffic noise as we pick, and enjoy the dust and exhaust of the freeway, but this little house and garden was a gift to us from God, and it has a lot of love, laughter and happiness. Our plums, raspberries, peaches, oranges, tomatoes and herbs are just an added perk…we just planted an apricot tree, and I am really looking forward to that too. Thank you Lord for your blessings. I have to say though, I wouldn’t mind some nice country space like it appears your folks and grandparents have, their place looks beautiful. 🙂
Love the beautiful pictures of the garden…. wish my veggies grew that well. Only our squash produced enough to cover the cost 🙂 Guess we’ll try again next year.
Wonderful pics….yes…we have a garden…my husband does..we have eaten a lot of fresh veggies…cannned some and given some to The Girls (8 hens)….
I love gardening! I’m still amateur, but learn something new every year. My first veggie garden was about 4 years ago. We have pretty bad soil where we live, so during the fall each year, we add compost to try to improve the soil for the next planting.
Have attempted lots of different things, but this year we did some of our most successful plants – tomatoes (regular and cherry tomatoes), bell peppers, cucumbers, squash, strawberries, blueberries, grapes (this is the first year the grapevine has produced – whoo hoo!!!) AND (drum roll) – we actually planted corn this year for the first time. Not so successful! Maybe will end up with 4 or 5 ears. I plan to “weep forward” on the corn disaster. Next year will be better!
We also have an herb garden with mostly mint and lemon, but a few other herbs. And we have flower gardens as well.
Hubby called before he left for work today and said he thinks the grapes are ready to make jelly. I told my granddaughter and her friend across the street from me that they could help me with the jelly making.
This all comes from someone who once killed every plant I touched and I’m really enjoying this new phase of my life!
No green thumb either! I have managed to keep some house plants growing for a few years now, but that’s it. Your pictures are very beautiful. It’s obvious how much you like photography. I don’t really have a hobby. I own a business and still have a 17yr old daughter at home and with bible study, church and trying to fit exercise in I can’t seem to find the time. I’m sure I’ll be looking for one when my baby girl goes off to college in another year!
Great pictures! We usually have a garden but this summer had to give it up due to an upcoming move. I love to plant in the summer time and enjoy the wonderful veggies! I discovered over the past few years that spinach (a cool season plant for us in NC) is super easy to grow and so much better from the garden. Enjoy and best of wishes with the new hobby!
Too funny about the quartering. We grow onions, tomatoes, green beans, squash, okra, and corn. But due to the worst hail storm ever at the end of May (seriously, every roof in our neighborhood is totaled according to the insurance companies), the only thing left surviving in our garden this year is okra. My favorite.
“It all began in a garden”!
Love the picture of your Mom in the garden–it’s beautiful! I don’t have a green thumb, but my husband is willing to try anything. When we bought our new home, that was the first thing he said he wanted in the yard. We planted a “salsa garden” last year and it did great! We had more tomatoes and jalapenos than we could eat. This year, however, the garden flopped!!! I don’t know what we did differently, but it’s already gone.
I love photography, I’m just not great at it. I would love to be able to photograph a person or thing and really capture the character. That’s my goal anyway!!!
Enjoy being home–sorry it’s so dadgummed HOT! I guess we’re not too different, weather wise, from Atlanta, huh? You’re with family now so that will cool things down a little. Have some fresh veggies while you’re here!
My mother has the green thumb in my family. She has the most beautiful plants surrounding her home and has grown a few of her own veggies. Actually, more like chile and herbs. I, like yourself, can’t seem to keep anything alive. Over the years, whenever I was given a small plant as a gift, very soon after, it died on me. Recently a very dear friend of mine blessed me with an orchid, I hesitated to accept it but she always insists I accept whatever she blesses me with. Sure enough, it died within a week. Her orchids last her about six months. Gardening is not the gift Abba Father blessed me with. Currently I’m working on a quilt. Hopefully it will come out better than the orchid.
Yeah… not so much of a green thumb here, either. I really enjoy gardening to a point. I love to dig in the dirt, plant the seeds and watch them sprout and start to grow. I don’t even mind weeding the first couple times. It’s the long-term maintenance and the harvesting that get me. Maybe I started too big and the problem is, I just don’t have time or energy to take care of it all! I don’t know, either way I don’t much like what it says about my character! On the up side, my husband and daughters planted a strawberry patch this year for 4H and I can’t WAIT to pick fresh strawberries next spring!
As for hobbies, I guess I don’t have any new ones right now, unless you count facebook 😉 I spose you could say joining in the comments in Siesta world is a new hobby too!
Your pictures are fabulous, by the way! Do you like to scrapbook? That has been one of my hobbies for a looong time. Sooo fun!
Living in the city (Chicago) it is hard to have a garden or a back yard for that matter- hopefully one day I will have a yard all to my husband and I!
I recently started going to a cake decorating class- I had my first one on Monday it was so much fun!
Howdy from Murphy, Texas!
I am a FAITHFUL reader and was so tickled by this post. We have a garden for the first time this year too. Cucumbers are growing in our garden and they are HUGE!! I did not know they grow so big. Our tomotatoes are fair. Our peppermint and basil are THRIVING to say the least. My husband says they have to move to pots next year or be relocated. They are taking over. hehehehe
Great blog! Love it!
My husband and I (both 57 years old, emptynesters, grandparents) started a pepper and herb garden in the spring of 2009 — Jalapenos, chili peppers, cayenne peppers, rosemary, flatleaf parsley, sweet basil, Thai basil, oregano, mint. My husband ended up dehydrating the peppers to make his own pepper powder. Also, with the Jalapenos he processed some in water and vinegar. We use the herbs all the time and have learned how to harvest and save in the freezer. One way is to take fresh sweet basil and put in food processor. Add a little olive oil. Then spoon into small plastic containers and freeze. Great to add to homemade red sauce for pasta dishes and soups and stews. The rosemary survived our unusually cold winter earlier this year in Tampa and so did the flat leaf parsley. Both very large and pretty. All others needed to be replaced this year. We love our little garden. We already had a grapefruit tree, orange tree and olive tree when we added on the peppers and herbs. Next will be an avocado tree and lemon tree. We’ve found gardening good for our hearts, souls and minds.
I have a small garden with a few tomato plants that are not setting on. I had lettuce and spinach in the spring. I have a large apricot tree that produced an amazing amount of apricots this year. We do not get tree fruit every year here in NW Oklahoma because we get a freeze when everything is blooming. My friends and I were kept busy for a few weeks try to do something with the apricots. I dehydrated some, made some jam and also some apricot ice cream.
My main hobby is counted cross-stitch. I like big projects that I make for my nieces and nephews. I did one from a mountain snow picture my nephew took.
I used to have a beautiful flower garden when I lived in Wisconsin. Then I moved Laramie, WY. The only thing that grows here are thistles. grrr! I do, however, love my houseplants! Working on keeping a hydrengia alive. Plants work best in my house if they don’t mind drying out once in a while.
I must say, I ROCK at cooking. Whenever I enter contests (at church or company picnics) I win. My signature dessert is ‘Chocolate Ganche Torte’. I love to cook! If only Rosie the robot would clean up after me, because I am a multi pan cooker. My hubby buys me cookbooks as presents. He just found “The Best of Bon Appetit” at a garage sale for $1! (Ain’t he something…garage saling!)
Don’t feel bad about the rosemary plant. I can’t keep them alive and I DO have a green thumb. 😉
Strangely enough, I’ve not often had much of a garden, even though I am a landscape designer! Go figure. Since moving to Alaska, it has proven necessary for my sanity to plant all things growing and flowering. It’s much different and requires some ingenuity to make things work, and a greenhouse! We have tomatoes in hanging baskets and pots, zucchini and yellow squash in a pot together that I have to pollinate myself, pots and pots of lettuce that grow insanely well, one of which is in a hanging basket by my kitchen door, and many more pots of flowers that grow so fast in our long daylight hours. I miss many things that grow so much easier in Kansas, but I love my rhubarb, so I guess that makes it O.K.! I have yet to delve into the world of canning and preserving, but I won’t say “never!” (I sound much older than my 30+ years!)
Melissa,
I feel your pain. I have killed air fern! That is pretty hard to do, but it didn’t take me any trouble. I watered my preachers plants while they were on vacation and watered the silk plants also! (My sister says I shouldn’t tell that one.
This summer however, I planted 4 tomato plants the first part of June and I am proud to say THEY ARE STILL ALIVE!! WOOHOO! They haven’t produced any fruit yet, but I am anxious and anticipating that.
By the way, great pictures!
Jan
I don’t have much of a green thumb, but my husband does and he has overwhelmed us with cucumbers. We have given them away. So, if anyone knows how to preserve them, I would love to know. I am limited on jars and space,so that could pose a problem.
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I’m just like you- I do not have a green thumb and I would be totally overwhelmed if I were told I had to plant a garden. I admire people who have beautiful gardens and I LOVE fresh garden veggies though. I love photography too– and it’s such a great hobby to have when you have kids– you can still do it when you’re a mom since you’re following them around everywhere anyways and it’s so nice to be able to document their days. I love your photos- great job! Do you have Lightroom or Photoshop?– that makes it even more addictive 🙂
I am also a photographer, you will find that being obnoxious just comes with the territory. You will find beauty everywhere, in surprising places and beauty that others just don’t see. Loved your garden pics, you are off to a good start. What kind of camera did you get?
The pictures are GREAT!!
I too have a black thumb. BUT..this year we bought the Topsy-Turvy things for my youngest to try and grow her favorite veggie: tomatos or maters as she calls them. The man had the bright idea that we would also try cucumbers in the second topsy thing. THEY WORK!!! We have had fresh cucumbers and maters. We also plant a variety of peppers. Can I just say that salsa is SO good homemade!
Enjoy your time in TX!
Blessings,
steph.
Beautiful pictures Melissa, I too kill green things!! Right now I am trying my best to keep an orchid alive my kids gave me for Mothers Day!! I love to take pictures but I am not very good at it. I used to play golf, but no longer have time, so I guess my hobbie would be lurking on the blogs..Enjoy your visit with the family!
I married a farmer “brown”! He plants & harvest about a half acre! I learned to “can” all of the vegetables so that we can have them in the winter. We go one step further and do everything organic. It is so healthy & rewarding. We also have a small fruit orchard. Right now during this time, all of the fruit ripens at the same time. It gets overwhelming sometimes, but wow the rewards. My friends just love getting to come over & “pick’ their salad before supper. Sometimes we eat only from our garden. we love it and thank God that we are physically able to work in it.
I try very hard not to kill plants, but I have a tendency to forget to water them 🙂
My dad has a beautiful garden in North Carolina that he’s recently started, and already his basil and chives are thriving. Right now we have a tomato plant, a watermelon plant, and some basil and chives of our own, but none of them are showing signs of promise at the moment. Hopefully next year we’ll have a bumper crop 🙂
I am in to ‘green smoothies’ ….they are so healthy and unbelievably tasty!
Put a couple of handfuls of leafy greens (spinach, romaine, kale) into a blender…then add fresh or frozen fruit…(strawberries, mango, peach, and 2 bananas) this will be about 40%leafy greens and 60% fruit ….add 2 cups of water….and blend till smooth.
You will LOVE IT….it is so healthy and good for your body. What makes it so healthy is the greens chopped up so small b/c it is easier for the body to ingest and the vitamins in the greens are absorbed more effectively.
I also add about 3 tablespoons of ground up flaxseed ….it is so RICH in omega 3’s. Basically the equivalant of a pound of salmon is in 3 tbsp’s of flaxseed.
The coolest thing is that my 4 young children LOVE them too!….the best part is that they are getting their fruits and veggies all in a glass first thing in the morning…they all come running when I let them know their smoothies are ready….AMAZING! Praise the Lord!
Try it ….you will LOVE it and it will become a new passion.
Love IN CHRIST…. (oh btw…out of all the pictures I have seen of Beth… that one is the most natural and sweet one….she really looks relaxed and at peace…a beautiful picture in the spirit of her IN THE GARDEN OF THE LORD…I am my beloved’s and He is mine)
Shalom
I have to admit…when I saw the title of this post, I became very excited, thinking this post was going to be about the show! LOL *sad face* But that’s okay. Actual veggies are good too. 🙂
Hey Melissa! No, I don’t have a garden – but I do have two tomato plants that a dear soul gave my husband (he’s a dentist and will often come home with fun things his patients give him). Weirdly, miraculously, bizarrely – these plants simply will not die. I’ve never had anything manage to continue eke-ing out an existence for this long with me as the overseer. It’s some sort of crazy miracle. Now they even sport little tiny – what look to be baby limes. I assume these are, in fact, little tomatoes. We’ll see how it goes.
While I’m happy for you that you’ve picked up photography – I do want to give you a shout out from the constantly happy world of Culinary Delights! Forget Betty Crocker – move on to more adventuresome terrain!! While I do dearly love Betty – and all she signifies – I mostly love her for her fun retro-ness. In fact just last week I found an old cookbook from my childhood (cira 1975) that my grandparents had given me – what a riotous hoot that thing is! Strange – the concoctions they came up with for combinations like eggs, celery, and pimentos (what was it with the fixation of pimentos in the ’70’s?).
While I’m not a classic “hobby type” (ie. I owned a glue gun once, but never ever used it. Frankly, I felt more comfortable around my husband’s Rigby 416); I do love to collect old cookbooks – like, the older, the better. I have a White House cookbook from the mid- 1800’s where items such as lard were apparently the basis for every single dish they turned out at 1600 Penn Ave during that century.
Have fun in Texas!
Beautiful pictures Melissa! I love the sunflowers. We have a small square foot garden in which we try to add new boxes every year. At present we have green beans, tomatoes, zucchini, carrots, beets, lettuce, onions, cucumbers and strawberries. My children love to plant and harvest with me but the weeding is not their favorite. We have grand ideas to grow most of our food but for now we will do a little at a time.
My hobby is reading. I love to read, but during the school year there isn’t enough time. (I am a third grade teacher.) Every summer I spend lots of time on the couch with my nose in a book. Every so often I have to get up and throw in a load of laundry or cook a meal for my family, but only in cases of extreme emergency!! LOL
My favorite authors are Francine Rivers, Karen Kingsbury, and Terri Blackstock. Karen has been my “author of choice” this summer. Our public library has a great selection of her books, and I’ve read several of her older Baxter Family books for the first time. I went to Wal-Mart on the day Take Four was released, and it wasn’t with the Christian fiction books. I was so anxious to get it, and was very disappointed when it wasn’t on the shelf. With an employee’s help, I found it among the secular fiction books. The poor guy didn’t know what to make of a 51-year-old woman telling him it was just WRONG to put Karen Kingsbury books with ones by secular authors!
Every summer I reread Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers. It is my favorite book of all time.
My husband and I are growing LOTS of cucumbers and LOTS of tomatoes……had quite the crop of yellow squash too. So, besides that, I still spend most of my time in my rose garden….I have 22 rose bushes (mostly hybrid teas) of assorted colors! Pinks, reds, yellows, whites, peach, orange, purples, and all types of combination colors!!! I love cutting them and sharing them with others. However, my “down” time to spend in the gardens is about over since volleyball begins in two weeks! Whew.
Melissa,
I do garden and my garden is very sad this season as my Man thought if a little will do ya, then a t.i.n.y. bit more will be better with the manure. So much of the produce has burnt plumb up! 🙂 I do have zucchini, yellow summer squash. But for the first time ever we planted three new items in our garden:
sweet potatoes (remember that awesome sweet tater recipe, Girlfriend?)
cilantro
green cabbage
Much love,
Yolanda
Oh yes, we also have two rows of okra!
So you will be supplying the Sweet Potato pie at our next meeting, correct???
i do not have a green thumb either. in fact, anything living thing i am given is sure to suffer a slow and painful death. (some have wondered how my children survived. must have been the pop tarts!) you might call me “sherrylu’s plant hospice”….when you come to me house….well, you know you are destined for doom!!!