After a quick peek back through my various blog entries, there was a noticeable gap in content. You're heard nothing about our garden project for this season. We apologize for the inconvenience and lack of coverage on this important subject.
Tomatoes (large Big Boys and cherry), Carrots, Peas, Corn, and Sunflowers fill our garden this year. Our Diana is a happy little farmer! She checks the garden first thing in the morning and then every two to four hours during the day. Thus, her intimate knowledge of our fledging crops is precise, specific and very very detailed. Every bloom, bud, and flower has been announced and pronounced throughout the town of Avon, Indiana.
Hopefully, we have planted the corn in such a way that it will cross pollinate properly so as to actually produce ears of corn! (We had great trouble with that last year). Also, our carrots have been thinned twice because we never did accomplish that last year and as a result produced stubby little bits of carrot all twisted on one another.
Diana's Kinderskills class field trip brought home a 'salad' in a pot which we promptly re-potted for growth. Since then we've produced two radishes that Diana does not like because "they are too spicey". Not sure what she'll think about onion she's growing.
In addition we have added two blueberry bushes that produce our daily intake of one blueberry each. Our Strawberry patch has dozens of blooms and our Diana thinks it will produce enough for us to make some strawberry jam! We'll see.
Every thing has grown tremendously with all of our rain... but we'll see how the remainder of the growing season goes... We did have to put in a fence around the corn (Duke decided to have a snack of the stalks).
Our rallying cry for the garden is ..."Let's be farmers, Momma!" Next year we've already got ideas about an herb patch and the cry will be "Let's eat, Momma!"
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