Nacho - The road to sufficiency!

[nachoqtpie]

Here are some pictures I took last night

Hubs watermelon. They're so stinking cute!

Cuke flowers

Tow-mate-ohs!

My "holy" beans!

We let a few lady bugs go last night. They really liked the fresh water on the plants

 

[Lady Henevere]

What is below the cucumber plant?

 

[nachoqtpie]

shredded paper mulch.

 

[Lady Henevere]

Interesting - I've never tried that. Do you find it works well for keeping moisture in, etc.?

 

[nachoqtpie]

So far so good! We just started using it this year. This is actually our first garden! Once we threw the paper mulch on there... things started to really take off! Since we have had so much heat and not enough water this year.. I think it has helped. (What a crazy time to be a first time gardener!! LOL)

 

[i_am2bz]

Glad to see you made it over from TEG!

And also glad to see I'm not the only one with "holy" beans, either! :/

 

[sunsaver]

I've been gardening organically for over ten years, but i never get tired of seeing pics of other peoples gardens.

 

[nachoqtpie]

I really am starting to dislike beetles... :/

I love to look at other peoples gardens!! I can't wait to get to a place where we can really spread our wings!

 

[nachoqtpie]

For those of you that aren't on TEG.... I thought I would post these pics for you all to see. It's not much, but it's what we have for now.
I initially never thought of "naming" our garden, but, I posted a facebook msg to a dear friend back home in Ohio to tell her that we were "farmers" because she was a farmer herself, always had been. About 5 minutes after I posted on her page, another former classmate sent me a msg and told me that she had died that morning in a car crash. Thus... Ivy Hill was born. (Ivy was my husbands daughters name.)

From the back

The front

Monks pumpkins are SO CLOSE to blooming!

Our holy beans (stupid bean bugs!!)

This strawberries runners are putting out runners!

Tomatoes. The ones from the box store came back, and the ones from the neighbor are doing GREAT!

The only cukes that survived transplant! LOL

Corn!!

Pumpkins

Watermelon... YIKES!! LOL

Like I said... it's not a lot, but, it's more than what we had before! We're proud of our lil plot of earth! We also put in this year a mulberry bush, a male and female kiwi, 4 grapes and 5 raspberries (they died... but we bought 5 more that are now hardening off to be put in the ground in the next day or so), and we have 2 apples and a pear tree. They are all producing, even tho we put them in just 2 years ago!

 

[JRmom]

Thanks for sharing the garden pix!