"The Gardens"

I think Peas are so pretty...

Here is the picture of the trellis for the peas i promised. It was some work, but we should be able to use it all season... at least 2 crops, i think...

These are the peas now! Aren't they lovely!? We have already been nibbling away at them while we are outside...
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Here is a shot of the "Kitchen Garden" next to the house. The brick on these matches the accent brick on the front of the house.

You can see what looks like "junk" behind the house... I assure you it is not!!! :) The tall round towers are the boys' fort... Jerry made a door into it and then built some stairs up to the second level... its very cool... its next to the teepee that you can't see. Then there are some pallets of soil mix and blocks... we are building some more beds in the landscaping by the house... i need more room! I want to grow corn and squash, cucumbers and melons! I also plan on putting in a small pond kit so we have the sound of running water in the back by the patio! We also wanted to catch our rain water and use it on the gardens when we can... Jerry had a big "tub" that they use for Petroleum piping installation that was extra so he brought it up and we put it under the gutter... well... it rained the other night and it is FULL and ran over already!!! We plan on painting it the same color as the siding... now we will have to empty it first! ha!

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This is my new cold-frame! It is lovely! I got it from www.groworganic.com. I also bought the automatic openers... so that when we are not around they will still vent themselves so as to not cook my plants! It really works and is just temperature sensitive, it doesn't need electric or even the sun, just heat and you can adjust it for different temps! So very cool!!

Some Parsley growing... it is so pretty! and quite strong tasting!

These are a couple of the new beds... they are about 3.5x7 feet, we needed to make them smaller so we could fit more in. We think we will be able to fit about 12 of these in!!!! It's going to be fabulous!!! I plan on planting these this afternoon... not sure what i am going to put in yet though... We fill the cores of the concrete blocks and then we can plant small things in there... like beets, carrots, onions, marigolds. I will be posting more pictures of these as they get finished...


These are our display gardens for WeedFreeGardenbed.com so they are up the hill at our shop that where we keep our construction equipment for J. L. Cook. You can see our house way back on the left!! I was standing way up on the forks of the forklift to get this picture!

The corn is starting to grow!!! How exciting!!!