Christine

Christine is our dog. She's from the humane society and has been part of our family for 12 years. She is (probably) a German Shepherd/Greyhound mix. But I think she is secretly a dingo!


Christine


Dingo

You decide!

Garden

I haven't forgotten about my garden or you! I have been at the Outer Banks!


Ok! Garden!

June 9:


June 23:


Look at it go! You can really see all the lettuces big and scrumptious and the potatoes at the back left really shot up!


In the passed three weeks:
Something ate all the riping strawberries!
All the beans are up
Both potato plants are sprouting
Eggplant has a few little blooms
Thinned summer squash. 2 have flowers
Thinned spinach. It's trying hard to be sumptuous again
Onions going strong
1 head of lettuce died. the other 2 are flourishing
all 6 leaf lettuces are gorgeous and giant
herbs are amazing. made sage & thyme biscuits today
Blackberry bush had one flower. The branch was broken off! Rabbits?
Blackberry bush has many new little flower sprouts
Pepper plant JUST revealed its tiny little flower bulbs
Roma tomato plant growing a bunch! none red

BONUS: A mystery plant started growing by the strawberries. It looked an awful lot like the potato plants next to it, despite only planting two potatoes. Realization: The strawberry plant is on top of the former compost hole. I guess a potato escaped and is now growing!! wow!

I ate my first strawberry and found a rock shaped like Ohio. I also found a hunk of quartz that looks like a potato (not pictured).

Garden

Hey remember this guy from April?



Well it was time to put it to use. Here is the layout plan:



So last Monday we started planting!



Every Monday I will take a picture to watch its progress.




Week 1 Progress:
2 strawberries turning red
3 roma tomatoes started
4 green beans started to come out of the ground


You can't really tell from the photos so far but they are certainly getting stronger and growing!