Saturday, August 2, 2008

Before and Now

So, I was out watering our garden today and Spencer mentioned how we should take pictures of the tomatoes and send them to my in-laws. Instead, I decided to post before and now pictures of our garden. Looking back on our "before" pictures, I have to laugh because they are so incredibly different. Enjoy!!

Herb box before:




Herb box now:



Tomato and Cucumber before: (we had peppers and beans, but none of them did good so we yanked them. Now it is just tomatoes and cucs which is REALLY for the best considering our now picture.)



Tomatoes and Cucumbers now: (The tomatoes are like an Amazon, no joke!!! I got in there today and got the Pear Tomatoes with the Pear tomatoes and the rest of the tomatoes with their own kind. Also, I think we have a cross breed of Pear tomatoes and Cherry tomatoes because on the Cherry plant, it looks like a Pear is growing.)




Squash box before: (In this picture you can see our sad little eggplant plant, it didn't make it either, along with the row of beans in front of it.)


Squash box now: (I don't know if you can see in this picture well or not, but the plants are actually pushing against the fence Spencer built and stretching it out. TONS of crookneck, LOTS of zucchini. The butternut is in the middle, you can't see it well because of the crookneck plants, but we do have some butternut starting to form. Mom accidentally stepped on the largest one today and broke it off, but we still have one other.)



Lettuce and Root Veggies before:



Lettuce and Root Veggies now: (Our radishes didn't make it and we yanked our Arugula because it was infested with bugs. We are talking swiss cheese Arugula. We also have cut our Chard, the furthest away, about 3 times already and we have already mowed our spinach once. The rest of the lettuce needs to be harvested still, especially the mesclun, we have already harvested that about 5 times.)



I'm really happy with the way our garden is turning out. I didn't think we were going to have a good garden because we planted so late and our plants were REALLY sad, but it is doing well. We are already making plans for next years garden.

3 comments:

Rachel said...

way to go guys, we're impressed!

MnM McQuivey's said...

Very impressive! Your garden looks really good! I hope Mike and I can get our square foot gardening going for next year. By the way we tagged you for the Mommy tag. It's really fun! Check out my blog and you'll see.

jjertmann said...

It looks sooo good! We have a huge garden and it looks like you'll probably get more food from yours! Ours needs a good weeding. There's nothing better than food from your own garden.