Showing posts with label garden. Show all posts
Showing posts with label garden. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 29, 2011

planting strawberries

the boys wanted to plant flowers, so i suggested strawberries. they LOVED that idea.

we went to osh where each boy picked out a strawberry plant. there were only three plants left. perfect!

the boys were a little possessive of the plants they were carrying, so i explained that these were our strawberries and we were going to plant them in our garden. we had this little pep-talk at least half a dozen times before the plants made it into the ground.

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strawberries before being planted

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choosing a plant

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cutting off the dead leaves and stems


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putting plant into the ground

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making sure the leaves don't get buried

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filling in the hole with dirt


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the strawberries are planted!

now they just need to grow so we can start enjoying their tasty goodness. do you have any tips for growing strawberries?

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do you see that little blur near the top left? that's ceelo. he lives between the fence and garden bed. he's a speedy little guy. i've been trying to figure out what kind of lizard he is, but he's so fast that i can't quite see his details up close. he looks like a fence lizard or sagebrush maybe? any lizard experts out there? he pops his head up every day when i'm watering. if i water too close to the fence or if we are too noisy, he will zoom up the fence and through the boards. but he always comes back.

Tuesday, June 14, 2011

two

mary mary quite contrary,
how does your garden grow?

i looked up that little nursery rhyme online and it doesn't seem so sweet anymore. mary is mary tudor, also known as bloody mary and the garden is a graveyard? craziness!

anyway, happy thing #2... my garden is planted!

true, it is a little late in the season, thanks to mother nature and the wintry spring we've had. but summers around here seem to last through september and into october, so i say it's all good.

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garden bed #1: tomatoes, squash, zucchini, jalapeno, and watermelon.

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our other crops.
as you have probably noticed, i am having fun making collages with picnik!

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while working in the backyard i was once again amazed by the family of squirrels who live here:

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the tree doesn't even look that tall in this picture.  if it says anything about the height, i couldn't get a shot of the whole tree in one frame. in this photo you can't even see the top of the 8 ft. fence that stands next to these trees. generations of this squirrel family have made their home waaaay high up that palm tree on the right. i don't know much about squirrels, but does this seem odd to anyone else?

i will try to get a video of them running up and down that tree. it's amazing!

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to answer yesterday's question, taylor ignored zach's comment. zach came over and offered to help. he helped a bit and then went off to play. the weeds in the backyard were even worse than the weeds in the front.

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so do you have a garden planted this year? if so, what are you growing?