VEGGIE VEGGIE

Good Morning everyone!

Man oh man, the days are getting shorter. It was practically still dark while I was walking Remy this morning (who prompty came home, curled up with her brother on their pillow and passed out cold). If the batteries never managed to mysteriously disappear out of the camera, I'd probably take a picture for you.. (hehe....*dig*) Love you!

My hunny and I were out at the garden last night, and I decided it was high time you had an update. We were also bouncing some questions back and forth and I figured it would be a perfect opportunity to ask you all for your thoughts and knowledge on the subject. Or perhaps you are like us, and learning as we go. Either way, I figured you were due photos of SOMETHING and so you're getting vegetables. Speaking of days getting shorter, these were taken last evening, around 8:30pm.

So as you may recall from previous posts, this is our little garden box.

On to the questions...

These are our carrots. Are they too close together or will they be fine like this? Is it too late to thin them out further, will doing so possibly damage the carrots we are leaving behind?

Our sweet green onions are growing bulbs (and our yellow dutch cooking onions aren't showing any signs of bulb growth at all... haha). Will we be able to eat these like regular onions? I'm sure going to give it a try...

I just wanted to show off the brocoli. It's finally growing after the plants have taken over half the garden box. We are thinking that these plants may also be the reason the celery growth isn't getting anywhere. They are just a vegetable garden bully.

We planted our peas too late this year. We already know that. Next year we realize we have to plant much earlier. Now that we are, in fact, getting peas I'm not sure what to do with them. These are the kind that you do not eat the pod, so pick them... pod them and then boil them? Throw them in a stir fry?  If you're wondering why we went with the non-eating pods, it's because the nice nursery man said they would produce sweeter tasting peas. I guess soon we will find out.

Our lettuce is beginning to look more like trees than one would expect. We are wondering if we had done more trimming off the top would they have stayed little and bushy? The monster on the left is simply the Little Rapids leaf lettuce and the right is Romaine. Not exactly what you find in the grocery store, eh? I figure maybe a few more months of this and we could start a new trend in Christmas trees... yikes...

And that about does it for the veggies. I asked my hunny if next year's project, along with this garden box of course, would be a strawberry plant box or raspberry bushes. He told me both. I think someone is getting a bit hooked! Honestly though, I just love it. We run out almost every evening and pick our salad. What gets better than that?!

I managed to snap a cute couple pictures of little Bear. Since these are a rarity (he usually looks rather stoned and disheveled in photos) I wanted to share with you.

Hope everyone has a fantastic day! Keep smiling...and thanks for dropping by!

Xoxo