Too busy weeding to blog

just take a look around for yourselves... the weeds are trying to take over the yard. I spend so much time trying to stay ahead
of them, that I have no time to blog or to visit your blogs. This makes me sad.

Remember me telling you the pumpkin was taking over?

It has some competition from my favorite winter squash of all...

Butternut Squash!!

We are actually getting some tomatoes this year...although not as many as I would like. How are your gardens doing? Have you been canning? I have been canning green beans and

shredding squash and zucchini to fill the freezer for winter goodness.

Hopefully I will have enough tomatoes to can soon. The weeds are growing after the rain we have been getting, so off I go to pull them out by their little roots!

My apologies my friends...I will be by to visit with you all soon. I promise!

Long overdue update

We've been too busy tending to this to blog.... good thing we love zucchini

this guy will not stay away...

We are canning these now....

Enjoying these..

Checking out the cool bugs who drop in

Did I mention hoping the rain stops long enough to weed?

I hope you enjoyed these pictures of our corner of the Garden State.

Hopefully it will not be so long before I can blog again.

Lots of green

Green beans, green peppers, green lettuces, even green tomatoes.
The greenness is broken up slightly by yellow squash, and very colorful swiss chardThese tomatoes were volunteers that Farmer Dad dug up and moved into the old pea bed.
They look very happy this morning.


The only other color variation is on the lettuces,and the blackberries, but mostly you see green in our plot.
I am hoping to get up to the community garden plot some time this week to take some photos,
I hear there is acorn squash and pumpkins growing like gangbusters.
These are the pepper plants the Ground Hog ate down to almost nothing earlier this year.
As you can see, they are staging a comeback. with lots of jalapeños growing nicely.
Here is one of my happy little pollinators working hard in the early morning.

New photos...

here's what's growing in our little corner of
the Garden State right now.....
Lettuce


Green Beans,yellow squash
FIGS!

Various tomatoes


Various peppers

Did I mention yellow squash..and blackberries

Can you see the grapes out behind Alley?
She's sitting in Princess's window.

Jersey Corn!

Yup..we got some.
We have not perfected the growing of corn in our little
space, but we are working on it.This corn was grown by Princess, she started the seeds, planted the seedlings, watered, and harvested. She did not eat it however, she doesn't like corn.
The corn from the community garden plot were much bigger,
but that space gets full sun and we have more shade than sun here
in our little corner of the Garden State.
Princess has been helping Farmer Dad harvest every day.
Yesterday, we brought in peppers,corn,carrots,yellow squash green beans,a cucumber and a zucchini which I did not photograph for some reason.
Princess kept running in with another handful or basket fullof something or other.
"Take a picture of these carrots, look at these beans!!" LOL
I have to harvest some lettuce and swiss chard today and get out there for some pictures of
the tomatoes. They are growing like crazy, especially at the community garden. I have been
staying in the house out of the high humidity the last couple of days.
We are supposed to be in for some gully washing rain in the next few days, and that should
cool things off for a day or an hour.

Canning

We have been getting a lot of green beans, our plants are still really little, but
the beans just keep coming.
Last year we had none at all, thanks to the Ground Hog, so I wanted to make the most
of this years harvest. I normally freeze my beans, but the results don't stand up well, and
my blog friend, Twice Bloomed Wisteria,
had previously posted about canning green beans with directions even I could follow.
I will link them here.
I ended up using a yellow squash that Farmer Dad brought in as well in a few of the jars.
I like them together and figured I would try it.
They look good to me..not as pretty as Wisteria's, but oh well.
I will enjoy them in the winter even if they are not as pretty in the jar!
I plan on doing it again, but we wanted some for fresh eating, so I just did a batch
and a half this time.

Where did Spring go?

It is too hot to be spring...isn't it?
We finally spread some mulch around the garden to
give the poor little plants a chance around here.
It is extremely important, as we water very little
around here. I have been visiting all of the gardening blogs
I can find (which means -way too much time on the computer)
and everything looks so green and all the lovely produce and
beautiful flowers!! I am green with envy.
Meanwhile I have roses that need deadheading and plants in pots that
do need some watering, and peas to be picked...the season is upon us.
Last night, while Farmer Dad spread mulch, I picked radishes and peas, and green
beans!! Our first green beans of the year!! I was so excited. I must make or buy some pirogies
and sour cream (nonfat plain yogurt will work too) to eat with them.Did I mention we have squash blossoms,
and corn silks? And more golden raspberries. Mmmm feels like summer
for sure!! So where did spring go?
And ..who did this???
Can you see the piece that has been chewed off? It was taller than Princess.
Oh well, could have been my bean plants and peas like last year......