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 ask???? Basically lots and lots of sauteed squash- just a little olive oil, bacon grease, butter, 1/2 sliced onion, 2-3 squash sliced, all in a hot pan til nice and cooked. Yum!
I’ve also made Zucchini Quesadillas a recipe that I will share next Tuesday, so be sure to check back.
Now on to the garden week 8- front view. Just for comparison’s sake, check her out just 8 short weeks ago, WOW!
Tomatoes- we’ve picked 3 so far
Squash is doing terrific we have 2 varieties of zucchini (which we weren’t aware of before)
Corn is growing tall
Yellow Squash is growing well
Look 3 eggplants! I already have a fab recipe lined up for these babies
Bell peppers have small little bells starting
Back view of the garden
Watermelon are starting to vine out
Cucumbers are sending off shooters, we need to set up a string for them to climb to the fence.
Potatoes are blooming already
Banana Peppers- look at all of them they seem to grow almost an inch a day
Old Garden- front view
Blooms on the purple hull peas
Corn doing well
Check out the patty pan squash are starting to get blooms!
Small Jalapenos starting
Japanese eggplants- growing slightly
And lots of cherry tomatoes
On the back fence of about 3 years ago we planted a grape vine, look at those grapes growing!! There are probably a good 30 bunches, yea!! I am planning on making lots and lots of grape jelly. They really aren”t sweet enough to just eat, so they need to be cooked, any ideas?
I hope you guys aren’t getting bored with my weekly garden pictures, are you? Would you tell me? I really hope not, eek. Well if you aren’t then.
Please ask your gardening questions and/or please share tips. If you aren’t bored then I will be keeping up with posting the progress of the garden weekly.
Click the links for week 1, week 2, week 3, week 4 week 5 , week 6, and week 7
Looking good!! In a few short months, I hope my backyard will look like that!
I am interested in how you will help “run” your cucumber plants up. I have 3, and someone told me it would be best if I let them run up something so they wouldn’t lay on the ground and the bottom side rot. Any suggestions?
Awesome pics! I’m planning on planting my seedlings this weekend. Wish me luck! 🙂
Good to see (on your site) what mine will HOPEFULLY look like soon. ha ha
I love your garden!
Looks good. Ours is nowhere yet, hopefully the torrential raining will end soon.
You’re in Houston, right? Can we have coffee and you tell me how to do that? My garden does NOT look like that.
Oh no, I’m not bored at all seeing your garden pics…I love it because I have something to compare by sad, lowly garden to!! We had such strong winds yesterday that it literally ripped all my watermelon plants out of the ground!! The kids and i were so sad this morning when we saw that. I promised them we’d go this wkend and get more seeds and start over. Everything else is doing really well, though but I suspect I have a snail/slug problem so I’m gonna put out some beer traps tonight and see if I can kill some off.
BTW, I’m having a fun contest/giveaway on my blog….be sure to come by and check it out! With your creative cooking dishes and your boys fun personalities, I have a feeling you’d be a great participant!
yummo…what a garden!
well done 🙂
wow – look how tall everything’s growing! Amazing!
Oh my gosh, what a great garden! And that first photo with the squash in the saucepan – yummo!!
I’ll be back to visit!
Leann
Those veggies look great. Why don’t you have look at my auction items for Tuesday and bid a dollar?
What I would give for that garden! Oh, my!!! I can almost smell that squash cooking. Beautiful.
Lisa
Very nice and I am in shock! See here in NC we are just now planting our garden! I can’t wait to get the “fruits of our labor” from the garden.
you guys have done so well on that garden, I have really enjoyed watching your garden grow week after week
great photo friday
That’s one big garden!!!! I wish I had a green thumb!
Well, how is it that you are so weed free?!?
Your garden looks great. Harvesting those vegetables is good encouragement, isn’t it? We’ll be able to plant our garden in the next week or so, if the rain ever stops! 🙂
Woah!!! That is awesome!!!! Crazy that you have so much squash already!
Have you read the book Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life?
There is a whole chapter dedicated to the squash that ends up overflowing their house and all the ways they tried to get rid of it. hehe.
Your garden looks awesome! I can hardly wait to get mine started. I’m in NW Indiana and we don’t dare plant until Memorial Day. I can taste the Zucchini Bread now! Yum!
~Liz
Wow! Your garden has grown really fast in just eight weeks! We won’t be picking anything until at least July. Your garden looks beautiful! We’ve planted most of the same things you did.
Have a wonderful weekend and a Happy Mother’s Day!
What an amazing garden you have. You even have corn. Can’t wait to see what you make out of the things you grew.