JULY 23, 2012 -- GARDEN HARVEST

JULY 23, 2012 -- GARDEN HARVEST!!!

We are starting to havest some new things in our garden!  The hot weather is tough on the plants, but we keep watering them!!!

Today we picked our first cucumber and there are dozens of more baby ones just starting!  We harvested our first tomatoes and with many more to come!

The corn is tasseled out and the crooked necked squash is maturing.  The zucchini is of course doing well and I just put 16 bags of shredded zucchini in the freezer!  Turnips are big, bok choy and swiss chard are doing well.  Green peppers and the Annaheim peppers are continuing to produce!

Fun, Fun, Fun!!!

MAY 14, 2012 -- MON

DIRT WORK AND TREE HOLES

Today our 17 piles of red dirt disappeared and we now have a level and beautiful potential lawn in back!  I am so excited!!!  The garden beds are level and we are ready to get them going!  We raised the pond edge, fixed the messed up drainage pipes, and have 6 holes ready for new trees!  We also got our trampoline pit dug with the back hoe to saved our backs!!!  I am excited to go buy 6 shade trees for our future "shaded picnic spot" and about 10 "Knock out Roses" for our property line!!!   This is the last phase of the "hard scape" for our yard area!  Yahoo!!!

Bulldozer at work leveling

Measuring for the trampoline pit that is dug below.

6 Tree holes dug!

Looking  Good!

We leveled out the grade from the basketball court so it wasn't so steep

Fixing the drainage pipes from the pool and French drains

A view from the opposite side of the pond

Our neighbors mansion that is still under construction -- it has been 2 years.

The whole picture

The next step is to have the concrete pathway and the garden curb poured!!!

MAY 5, 2012 -- SATURDAY

LOTS OF DIRT

Last week, someone started building a new house across from us and started making piles of dirt.
When we saw dump trucks arrive to haul it off, we started asking questions!  Today we were able to get 15 dump truck loads of good red dirt -- FOR FREE!!!  Yahoo!  This is in addition to the 4 loads we got last Saturday!  We have big plans for raising the shore of the pond and extending our sidewalk/pathway around the edge of the pond! We are excited!  It will take away the swamp problem that is currently there!  Pictures coming soon of the project in process!!

Mason loved watching the dump trucks come in and dump!!  He also found this rock and wanted a picture taken of it!

Mason and his cool rock!

The Clematis is still in beautiful bloom!  Whenever I see pretty flowers now I think of Melissa!!!