Dana's Garden

So, I’ve been out of sorts for a bit.  Had a business trip to go on and therefore was out for a week.  Then I got back and thought I’d actually get some things done with the garden – WRONG!  Caught the worst head cold imaginable instead.  Damn you, airports.  And your friggin’ germs.

I recovered by about Tuesday…ish.  And then I became even busier.  I just became a Pampered Chef consultant to make a little extra dough (plus I just really love their products so why not?  http://www.pamperedchef.biz/danaholler … </plug>), and so I had a little “practice” show on Tuesday night.  Wednesday was PMI-Charlottesville meeting, Thursday was softball, Friday was my first real Pampered Chef cooking show.  Plus, Kurt was sick all week too (thanks to me), so whenever I wasn’t off doing something, I was tending to him.

Saturday was errands day, along with Farmers Market.  We finally got to take a friend – Cheryl – to see the garden after we picked up some tomato plants.  Kurt wanted to get a lot of plants and I only wanted to get two more.  We had a small scuffle.  No one was hurt.  We had to cram some plants in here and there (yes, we have tons of space but only so much prepared soil).   It’s all good!  We’ll have tons of tomatoes to give away at work. 

Then came Sunday – today – and we finally got a chance to get some things done around our busy day of softball and kickball games.  We weeded around plants, planted some more radish (we’ll have a big bunch of those to pick soon), green bean,  and corn seeds, and also planted some swiss chard.  A couple more zucchini, too – one of our plants isn’t doing well for some reason but the other ones are growing nicely.  Corn rows look sweeeeeet, but for some reason one of the four rows really didn’t grow so that’s why we replanted.  Peas are getting big!  Pretty soon they’ll be touching our ghetto-twine trellis.  Sunflower is getting big, I think that one is Kurt’s favorite for whatever reason, so we planted more of those too.  Buddy kept licking the blackberry plant, dogs really like blackberries I guess.  Carrots are getting a little leafier.  Cilantro is making an appearance.  Eggplant looks like bugs are eating holes through the leaves.  Strawberries are looking sad.  Oh well.   Waiting for nasturtiums to flower.

I’m happy that it’s supposed to rain tonight and tomorrow!  Less work for me! 

And here’s the photo gallery.  You can see we still have a ton of weeding to do.  We’ll get to it one of these days.

Going to bring the patio chairs and chiminea over soon so we can have a little sitting area (relax, neighbors, chiminea for decorative purposes ).  Next year we plan to build more raised beds for herbs etc., and want to build a brand new fence around our plot.  Just need to save up some funds first.  Kurt has a plan all drawn up for next year, so that’s pretty nice.  I’m glad he’s investing so much time and thought into the whole project.  Makes for a happy Dana.

Goodnight all!  Will try to do posts more often but you know how things get when you’re busy.

Love,

Dana