Garden Garden Garden

It seems that gardening has began to consume most of my time. I am not complaining in fact with some of the mean things going around on social media and in the news it seems more people should be gardening so they dont have so much time on their hands. Just sayin.

Mr Ladybug and I have been busy keeping up with the weeding and watering at two garden sites and we couldnt be more happy. I think when all is finished we will have over 50 tomato plants! On tonights agenda we will be preparing garlic scape pesto and mulberry jam. Thats right we found a mulberry tree!!! The first pic is of a scape and the second pic is of our garlic bed. We cut the scapes off so that all the energy can go to making bigger bulbs plus the scapes taste so good.  We spent less than $5 on the garlic definitely worth growing your own.

The potatoes are plants are so big and have started blooming. I sure how that its a good sign as to whats underneath all that dirt. Last year we grew around 30 pounds of potaotes. We are hoping to at least do the same and we only spent $5 on the potatoes.

Here are a few shots of our Community garden spot. Its hard to get a good pic of it all since its 4 foot by 20 foot. We have 24 tomatoes, several different types of peppers, onions, yellow squash, green beans and another type of squash that I cant remember. We also had a volunteer tomato that came up from a previous gardener and three spearmint sprouts that I brought home to transplant. We have gotten some wild raspberry plants to plant at our home as well.

As you can see whoever wanted the site next to use has not done anything and the weeds have went crazy. We think the person on the other side planted lots of cucumbers. I am guessing lots of pickles in their future.

I love basil so this year I tried a mini basil plant along with the normal basil. Its so cute and tastes like the big stuff. I will probably try to have the mini inside during the winter.