growing and showing

It's the middle of April and I am just getting around to planting some pretty useless things.

My grandma's garden would put most to shame. She doesn't grow food-she grows pretty and very fragrant plants. She cut some roses for me.

So I went to wal-mart and purchased some of my own. Here are some red geraniums and pink roses

Last year Tommy had to cut down my most favorite tree! When we moved here 5 years ago he built a fence and made a grove into that tree so the fence could fit next to it. That little nick made the tree suseptible to disease. It died. I have now covered it with this tall grass and here it spreads like a weed. Just what I want!

More of my grandma's roses-she has evey color, but I asked for purple. Those are my favorite

With this nice weather, our chickens have been content enought to produce many eggs! So out goes "the egg sign."

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Tommy had Estefan and I looking for the tiny tomotoe~he later mentioned it was the size of a sunflower seed. No wonder we didn't see it

The kids LOVE the garden. These are some pictures, although not of the entire garden. Below I am listing what Tommy currently has planted. The next couple months I want to continue to keep up on this for Tommy and I to look back on and perfect the next years:)

Okay I am just going to start with measurments and produce. Some might not have number of produce cause Tommy didn't count every seed he put in the ground. Although it may not seem like alot, I have to remind myself that EACH plant produces SO much! AHHH

20 giant sunflowers
120 tomotoe
100* garlic/onion
40 potatoes Iidaho,russet,enterprise)
30 stripped klondike watermelon
20 casabamelon
30 crimson sweet watermelon
20 crenshaw melon
20 honeydew melon
10 moon and stars watermelon
1000* incredible sweet corn & candy corn
700 onions
200 green beans
37 broccoli
23 cabbage

the following are measure in feet not numbers

lettuce, swiss chard, spinach, carrots:100x30ft split into fourths

cabbage(60%), brussel sprouts(40%) 100x30 ft

peppers(jalepeno,bell,bannana,sante fe, anehiem)60%, eggplant(40%) 100x30ft

black beauty zuchinni (75%), golden zuchini(25%) 100x30ft

black beauty zuchinni 100x30ft

yellow straightneck zuchinni 100x30ft

variety mixed zuchinni 100x30ft

There are 8 rows of 30x80ft that we also be more melons,conatlopes, and cucumbers. There is also a small area of alfalfa which we have never grown. That remains to be seen though. In a couple weeks we will plant more corn (mexican june) in with the tomotoes for protection. BTW did I mention I don't care  know how to can?