Time for a garden update! This year has been exponentially better than last year in the garden. We have made a bunch of changes. We’ve increased the garden space to 300 square feet, although it isn’t all planted at the moment. A huge and WELCOME change was in the area of watering. My dear husband installed a drip system on automatic timers for me. It’s saving me about 8 hours a week in watering! Thanks babe!!!!

In the following picture are:

Okra, and tomatoes, yard long beans, peppers,melons (growing everywhere!) basil, arugula, salad greens, daikon radishes, pepper plants and cucumbers.

This is my permaculture inspired herb spiral. Love this thing! I plan on making at least one more.

Colors colors colors!!!!!

I love gardening. Not very good at it. I'll admit that easily. But I love the results. I love the colors of nature. I love cooking with produce I just cut fresh from my backyard. Thought I would share my latest bounty from the garden!

Look at all those beautiful colors! In case you are wondering, there is 4 different kinds of basil, 2 kinds of sweet peppers and jalapeno peppers!

So we've been weighing our produce and tracking it. It's not been a lot so far- but it's so much more than last year!

Allan brought Petal in and set her at the table for dinner. While I was dishing her food up, she decided she just couldn't resist the bright green peppers!

I'm sooo very glad she reached for a sweet pepper and not a jalapeno! That would NOT have been a good start to dinner!

Looks like she's enjoying her pepper!