This Week In the Garden

I went to throw something in the dumpster right outside of a greenhouse only to discover hundreds of plants had just been dumped there!   Mostly peppers, I grabbed 10 packets- some quite beautiful with peppers ON them- making 60 pepper plants for free!  All of them were spicy peppers so I found homes for some of them.

 

He had just woken up and come outside to find me in the flower circle, when in a sleepy daze he got the wagon.  I think it is funny that he immediately started lugging around a wagon, even in a sleep stupor.  Boys do things like that, I guess.

Then he saw me- and he did that perfect Judah grin at me.  When he smiles- he REALLY smiles. Golly, I love this boy.

 

Planted:

24 pepper plants

lettuce 

spinach

a butterfly bush I bought at an auction for $3.00

transplanted calendula plants that self-sowed last year.

transplanted a teeny patch of corn about to be buried in squash to the rest of the corn patch

Worked on:

weeding 

walkways

tied up another level of tomato stakes (they are growing fast!)

thinned beets and kale

surrounded bean plants with coffee grounds and pepper plants with crushed eggshells

Harvested:

flowers for the house

flowers for gift bouquets

peppers

broccoli

summer squash

swiss chard

basil

Made:

bacon and swiss chard pizza

sweet pan chili with swiss chard and peppers

fresh broccoli and summer squash with ranch dip

Put Up:

 swiss chard