New Garden Pictures

This is an italian sweet red pepper... Here is my newest garden box. Del built it for my fall crop. Behind it you can see my giant rosemary, chard, green beans, zucchini, and cucumbers.
Sugar pumpkin vine...
Zucchini and cukes...

Sunflower Pictures

Looking up into a giant sunflower... Lovely red sunflowers...

Even More Garden Pictures

Here are some cherry tomatoes ripening on their vine... Below is a shot of a gorgeous plot in the garden (not mine!). Those are beans in the foreground and the low dark leaves in the background are probably kale.
Here is my pride and joy, my first head of broccoli. These little plants struggled so badly at first that I didn't expect any to survive at all.
And here is another shot of one of my neighbor's plots (same one as before). His corn is so great!
Here are 4 heads of lettuce grown by yours truly. The red lettuce tasted the best.

Lettuce and Spinach and Peas, Oh My!

After a week of moping around my apartment with a cold I finally made it out into the sun today for a few minutes. Above are my spinach plants and below are peas on the outside and two rows of lettuce on the inside. All my veggies look so healthy and happy! These pictures don't do them justice.

Tortilla Press

I made this fancy shmancy torilla press this weekend with Del's help! I have made flour tortillas several times and rolled them out with a rolling pin, but I found this design in a book for making corn tortillas and thought it would be a fun project. I would like to paint it at some point. We also made the first of 3 trellises for the garden...pictures to come soon! My peas, lettuce, and spinach have all sprouted. I look forward to seeing if I can keep them alive long enough to eat them!

It looks like a different garden...

Don't our raised beds look great? We decided to wait on the wooden border until we can get the wood a bit cheaper (possibly for free). Del was smart enough to think to climb up on a rickety ladder and take a few photos from above the garden. Doesn't it look awesome? I'm so excited I can barely stand it. So, this evening I planted seeds for Dakota Peas, Bloomsdale Savoy Spinach, Organic Golden Swiss Chard (YUM!), Organic Victoria Butterhead Lettuce and a few seeds of a blend of lettuces. I bought all my seeds this year from Territorial Seed Company, which is a local Oregon seed company. Here's the website if anyone is interested: www.territorial-seed.com

Almost ready to plant...

Del came out to the garden with me yesterday and we really got a lot done. We are going to build a border around it tomorrow and I should be ready to plant peas, spinach, lettuce and possibly radishes after we finish building. We are also going to build a few trellises, which we calculated are VASTLY cheaper to build than to buy already made. So hopefully I'll have some more good pictures to post after tomorrow.

JennaSue is my favorite farmgirl

So, I got a lot done in the garden today in just over an hour with my friend Jenna. It was nice to have help and it was a gorgeous day to be working outside. Having someone to talk to makes the work easier. Unfortunately we didn't take any pictures but I will definitly get some new ones up next week. Hopefully I will be able to put a border around the whole plot this weekend with Del's help (if the weather is agreeable).
While I'm out there working I can almost imagine that I'm on my own land miles from the city. One day I will be!

And after nearly 3 hours of back-breaking labor...

After being hunched over for so long I managed to pull a muscle in my right leg and spent the following 2 days limping. I'm a wuss.

Here are some photos of my first garden

This year I finally signed up for my very own community garden plot. For about $50 I am now the proud renter of a 20x20 foot garden.

Above is a shot of the garden before I started weeding. I'm happy that someone else left a huge rosemary plant (which I used to make the loaf of rosemary bread from my previous bread)