Another summer garden round up! This year a chipmunk ate all of my sunflower seeds (twice) so we didn't have sunflowers this year. so bummed! We also bought and tried out a soaker hose and switched sides of what we planted where.
The boys love for Chad to give them any task with the garden. Before we planted he told them that "turning up" the dirt would be good for our raised bed and they loved playing in the dirt each day. Then he had them put tums and epsom salt around the base of our tomato plants. They love helping him!
Our iris bed went crazy this year! Mom gave them to us a few years ago and they were so thick and tall this year.
This year we got our tomatoes in late April, but didn't get everything else in until May 5.
May 14- our backyard bunnies love checking things out :) but they've never messed with it at all in the past. This year they did top our okra and eat the bottom of our beans.
May 29
June 12
I loaded up some of my plants and took them to Will and Kim while we were gone for 10 days.
June 27
"ball! ball!"
I love how plants climb!
July 7
Basil is by far our most used herb. We load our tomato pies and zucchini pies up! Miller loves to pull each of the plants and then bring us the leaves to smell. He especially loves pulling the mint because it gets so full.
We got tons of cucumbers this year and eat them daily. The boys have loved them! We've done several different things with them. The boys especially loved helping and eating this recipe for a cucumber salad that my family loves from my great grandmother.
This has also, once again, been the summer of tomato pie. We've made 2-3 each week.
