Spring happenings...

 I know it has been a long time since my last post...

And I am really sorry about that.

But sometimes life happens...

Like when the Lord  decides to add another arrow to my husband's quiver. Towards the end of last year, we welcomed our 6th child. Another girl. She was born at home. Unassisted.

Now that that's out of the way...

We were able to get half of our garden planted last weekend.

This is half the garden. 2 rows of popcorn, 1 row of okra, 4 mounds of butternut squash, 2 mounds of spaghetti squash, and 6 tomatoes.

And then the weather dropped.

Bummer. I did heavily mulch the rows and mounds and covered it all with tarps to help trap the heat.

Hopefully the cold temps didn't affect the  germination of  our seeds. We will have to wait and see...

The pumpkin farmer has decided to not plant any pumpkins this year. Last year he planted them and had them running up a trellis. That was our second time growing pumpkins that way, and I don't think we will do it again. You see, here in the deep South, we have these horrible things called squash vine borers. And year after year they have destroyed our pumpkins and summer squashes. When a SVB gets into your squash vines, they kill it. If that squash is growing along the ground, the plant has the ability to put down new roots. That doesn't happen if your squash are growing up a trellis. If a SVB gets in, your plant is shot.

So, what is in our garden this year...

Strawberry popcorn
Star of David Okra
Butternut squash, which is resistant to SVB, annnd tastes like pumpkin
Spaghetti squash
Tomatoes  (I forgot which variety)

And still left to plant...
Kentucky Wonder pole beans
Christmas Lima beans
Pickling cucumbers  (again, I forgot which variety)
And herbs such as basil, thyme, cilantro, lavender, peppermint.

We have rosemary, bee balm and lemon balm left from last year.

I am also going to have a bigger flower garden this year.

And maybe a medicinal garden, as well.

 We're also trying our hand at growing figs in containers. We'll see how that goes...

This is a Texas Everbearing fig

 

We still have so much to do. I've got to get the marigolds in and get the rest of the vegetables sown. And mulch. And finish tripod trellis for the beans.

Good times...