Our Halloween Tunnel of Terror

Watch this video and see the pictures of the tunnel.

My Shade Garden

Time is Almost Up!

Time is almost up for our summer garden and it will be time to start the fall or winter garden.
The cucumbers didn't make it because of the heat.  We had some beautiful ones but they turned bitter because of the heat and no rain, even though we watered everyday.  We have learned from this first garden and hopefully will do better next year.
We are getting a late harvest on tomatoes and some beans.  Here are some Rainbow Tomatoes, Brandy Boy Tomatoes, Cucumber, Beans and Okra.

My garden 5/30/11

Squash

Kentucky Wonder Pole Beans

 Sugar Snap Peas

 Cumbers

Tomatoes & Basil

Tomatoes & Basil

The best burger

This was a wonderful double cheese burger we had the other day.  We named it a Blow Your Brain's Out Burger.
It has two pieces of meat with cheese, bacon, tomato, avocado, and arugula.  Highly recomended for you to make one today.

My First Pick

My first squash.

there are many more to come.

How my garden is doing

arugula

My first strawberry

first sunflower

Jalapeño peppers

Several squash forming

Sugar Snap Peas

Composting

My new compost bin.  I'm so excited about this compost bin.  It took awhile to get all the pallets but I know it was worth the wait.  I hate the thought of all the food we have wasted that could have gone in the compost, but we didn't have anywhere to put it.

New Addition to Walkway

 We recently moved these from the front bed to the edge of the sidewalk. These were just thrown in spots in the bed.  I got the idea that it would be nicer edging the sidewalk. It is a pretty lime green stripped type of monkey grass.  I originally thought that we only had about five clumps, it turned out once we started digging that we had a lot more and some were bigger so we split them.

 This is just the beginning of the slow process of redoing the front bed.  The landscaping that came with the house was not very pretty.  There are a few things I would like to keep but maybe move it around.  There are these two boxwoods just put behind a crepe myertle which look silly and I don't want any hedges so we are going to move them somewhere.  We hate to just throw them away.

I think something is happening

 I think I see something starting to sprout.  I have flowers on my strawberries and those look like blooms on my cucumbers.  I'm excited, I wasn't sure if we'd have anything to grow and produce.  I still have to plant the rest of my tomatoes tomorrow.  I will try some in the ground and some in the topsy turvy again, hope they work this year.

My Shade Garden

 This is the start of my shade bed.  I have Coleus, Hostas, hydrangeas and I will have ferns.  These pictures aren't very good. I just planted everything today, I'm not finished with the bed I still need some more dirt to build it up more, but I wanted to get some of my plants in.

I'm excited to start all of my flower beds.  I think on the other side of the house where it is mostly sunny I will have vine plants growing on trellis's.  I'm very anxious to have everything done and planted, but I know it will be a slow process because of time, labor and money.  Luckily I don't have to buy many supplies

 I have found free compost at the local landfill just a few miles from my house and I have a friend at work that has given me free horse manure and hay.

I have never explained the type of garden and flower beds I am planting, they are called Lasagna gardens. The concept is just layering different product that will keep out weeds and make the garden healthy.  I don't have that many layers nor do I have it up to 24 inches like you should but I think mine will work pretty good.The bottom layer is always newspaper or cardboard, then you can put down grass clippings, leaves, compost, hay, humus, peat moss, manure and just about anything.  I only used a few of these and didn't layer very much.  You can mix it up and use anything you have available.

Tornado

Yesterday there was a bad tornado.  Luckily no one was hurt bad. Bruce was at work and he said it got so bad they all went into the bathroom and the front doors were ripped off the hinges. Mississippi has been hit pretty hard by tornadoes in the last year.  We will pull through as always.

Bird's Nest

We just bought a Boston Fern a couple of weeks ago to hang on the front porch, I took it down to water and found a bird's nest with eggs.  It was kind of exciting but now I'm having a hard time watering it because I don't want to disturb the next too much or put my sent on it so the mother won't come back.