The Garden is Growing!

We planted the garden in a new spot this year after last year's spot got flooded and everything was lost. This time we have a raised bed and are trying to do it all in an organic way. This isn't so easy when you get fire ants but so far I have had some good luck using orange oil. It is a little more work but the ant hill came up right next to the plants and I really didn't want to spread ant poison inches away from the cucumbers!

So here is the garden before the seedlings were planted.

And here is the garden this morning. We have summer squash (front, left), cucumbers (front, right), sweet basil (down the middle), Cherokee Purple tomato (back left - we bought those already 10 inches tall), and San Marzano tomatoes (back right - from seeds and probably transplanted too early). In the pots on the left are blueberries that we will plant in a bed against the garage. In the pots on the right are plants that are supposed to repel mosquitos (not really effective).

The first squash blossom even opened this morning.

Here are some pictures I took last week of flowers in the front yard. They are all gone now except the weedy ones (the yellow flowers).

And here's one of three of the boys!

So if you happen to be around in about a month, drop by for dinner. We will probably be having pasta with a tomato basil sauce, sauted summer squash and a cucumber salad!