On May 9th, Casey and I started a garden in our backyard. It started with just a patch of grass that we tilled up, planted, and bordered with stone. It ended up being very fruitful (no pun intended:).
Here is the patch of grass
Ella checking out our work ;) I think she approves because she loves laying in the garden even now.
By May 18th we were already seeing sunflower and cucumber seeds pop up!
sunflower seeds starting to sprout up!
cucumber seeds sprouting up!
June 19th - our first pick! A big, red tomato!
The next few are from July 10th.
the sunflowers eventually got way taller than me or Casey!
cucumber vine
As you can see, the garden took off quickly! This picture was taken exactly one month and one day after we first started tilling the land! Wow!!!
After being on mission trip for 7 days we came back to a garden pest!!!
A tomato Hornworm!! There were 10 and they were huge!! See the red stinger?
Casey was so scared of them he wore gloves ;)
They butchered our tomato plant...
a half-eaten tomato. Their bellies must've been full!
Yuck!!!!
More veggies picked on July 24th.
Picked on July 30th.
Since then I've stopped taking many pictures, but we've picked many more jalapenos, cucumbers, tomatoes, and bell peppers! We actually picked a really big bell pepper yesterday! It's pretty neat having a garden and seeing things grow in front of your very eyes! :) Next year we hope to grow even more fruit and veggies!
