This Week In My Garden

This is what my garden looked like last week June 10

This is a picture from my garden this morning June 17

We are slowly starting to harvest and enjoy some of the many blessing from this small garden space. We have picked an abundance of eggplant, and the plants are still full of veggies and new flowers. We have also enjoyed two big bowls of green beans cooked southern style, complete with bacon fat for flavor! Yum Yum. It turns out the okra was not ready by the time my brother went home, but more and more of it is ready each day. The jalapeno peppers are really starting to show up, but we have not seen a poblano pepper yet. I did however realize a mistake I made.....I thought I bought sweet banana peppers, but it turns out I got sweet bell peppers! No big deal though I like them all. 

 

We are doing ok so far as pest go, well the best you can in the desert. So far we have not been the ones enjoying the beautiful red tomatoes when they are ready. (some adjustments have been made to our tomato protection system, now we just need to see if it works) Also a bird keeps pecking the eggplant, oh yeah and for awhile something was eating the leaves of the poblano plants. We never saw anything on them but you can see were bites have been taken out.

 

Even with the pest and learning set backs, the garden is growing way better than we thought it would. We all feel very blessed!

 

If you have a garden, and would like to share your garden pictures and stories please, feel free to leave a link in the comment section. I would love to hear how your garden grows.