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summer garden 2009

Our garden is finally giving up

August 14, 2009

Its that time of year in Texas with the 100 degree days and a severe drought, our garden is finally giving up. I must say I am not all that upset. After months of constant picking, watering , weeding, (courtesy of DT) cooking, eating, freezing, and canning, I am ready for a break. Our harvest [...]

Summer Garden week 18

July 17, 2009

I have missed a few weeks from posting our garden, because in this Texas summer heat mostly everything has started to shrivel up and die. Our cucumbers are gone, and few tomatoes plants. But our Okra, and peppers are thriving, I mean thriving. Our okra plants are literally as tall as I am. They had [...]

Summer Garden Week 14

June 19, 2009

I have skipped the past 2 weeks of garden post and during that time our garden has absolutely exploded, I mean exploded with produce, yesterday I picked no less than 30 tomatoes, yes I said 30 tomatoes. I am running out of ideas here, any one have any? I think I am going to make [...]

Summer Garden week 11

May 29, 2009

The weather here in Southeast Texas has been perfect for growing summer veggies, one comment I seem to get most often is how we are already so far along with our garden and most living in northern states are just planting. Well that is because here near the gulf coast during July and August it [...]

Summer Garden week 10

May 22, 2009

I spent the majority of last weekend, blanching and freezing green beans and squash. Now don’t get me wrong I love having fresh vegetables and I will love having them in the freezer ready for my use at any time. But its so easy to feel just a bit overwhelmed by the massive amounts that [...]

Summer Garden week 9

May 15, 2009

The garden is doing amazingly well. Each day we have several squash, tomatoes, green beans and peppers to pick. We are quickly filling up all the space in our fridge, so this weekend I am going to be doing lots of freezing of the veggies. It so fun once the veggies start coming in. All of DT’s [...]

Summer Garden week 8

May 8, 2009

8 weeks into gardening and we have tons and tons of squash and banana peppers and 3 tomatoes! Its wonderful! I’ve only watered once this week, as fear that the garden was getting too much water. But I think she’s doing good now. So what have I cooked with my massive amounts of squash you [...]

Summer Garden week 7

May 1, 2009

I want to let you in on a little secret about our garden…. We ummm…. How do I say this… hmmm.. Are you ready for this???? Ok enough stalling. My pictures are always a week late. Seriously, eek. Ha Ha, I know not that big of a deal. What I mean is the pictures I [...]

Sneak Peek

April 24, 2009

I am home with sick babies with a stomach bug, talk about fun. But because I’ve been busy changing diapers for the past 2 1/2 days I haven’t had a chance to create my Garden post for the week. But I wanted to share some sneak peek pictures of the bad weather and tons of rain [...]

Summer Garden week 5

April 17, 2009

The garden is growing along magnificently we had rain the day I took these pictures, and I swear the garden had grown 2 inches by the next day, it was amazing. We water several times a week, but one rain and bam huge growth. DT and I were just talking about how we love to [...]

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Howdy, y’all! Welcome to my blog world. I am Sweet Pea, a 20-something Texas native and a newlywed…well, almost. We wed May 2006. Shortly after we were blessed with identical twins boys born November 2007.

My husband, whom I lovingly call Double Trouble (DT), owns and operates a trucking company, and we use our CB handles as our names here.

I however recently converted from a working mom to a stay-at-home mom. I love the new challenges that it brings and enjoy sharing my triumphs, messes, and adventures with you. I hope you enjoy reading about our busy lives with babies, cooking, gardening, trucking, and bargain shopping.