Gardening Greatness!

This garden of ours is kicking some buns and taking some names. Here are some of the okra that we have harvested. These guys are great grilled with a little olive oil and spicy seasoning! More on the seasonings later. I think I will do a whole post just on my favorite Penzeys spice blends.

This next one is a picture of our string beans...which I don't quite understand. We are doing something wrong but I'm just not sure what it is. They are all yellow and the leaves look weird but they are producing flowers and I did find one bean in there. I'm hoping they are just getting ready to get started. In the back left corner of this picture you can also see our cucumbers. Those guys are going crazy and we pretty much have cucumbers coming out of our ears!

This one has our squash, zucchini, and pepper plants. The squash is growing like crazy but is not really putting out that many squashes. The peppers I think will really get going soon but for right now we have a couple peppers on each plant. 

Finally, these are the tomato plants. They are growing like crazy. Plus they have tons of tomatoes on them but none of them are ripe yet. Now it's just a watering and waiting game.

Here are just a few of the vegetables that we have been able to harvest so far. They have all been delicious!

Oh How The Garden Has Grown

Check out this garden! It has grown so much in the last few weeks. All thanks to the rain that we have gotten. I can't take any credit here. We have gotten over 5 inches of much needed rain this month. It has made the gardening much easier. The rain chances are going down though and the heat is starting to go up. Today we have a high in the low 90's and will not be getting any rain. :( I think the garden will be okay with daily watering. That's how it goes in Oklahoma...daily watering.

Now for the tomatoes!...tiny as they are...

These are the tomatoes that Flint picked out. They were the first ones on the scene and the only ones that I have pictures of right now. They are still very small. I actually have no idea how big they are supposed to be. I made a major garden snafu. See I bought garden labels. They I wrote on them with a sharpie. Then it rained all month and now I have labels with no writing on them and no idea what the plants are.I know which ones are tomatoes and which ones are peppers, and okra, and squash, and so on and so fourth but no idea on the variety of most of the plants. I'm just going to have to play this year by ear and hope for the best.

This I know is a little heat-less jalapeno. It's supposed to taste like a jalapeno but have no heat. I have yet to try it but I did pick this one last night and plan on trying it tomorrow. We got all of these plants at Sunrise Acres, a certified organic farm not too far from the house. The owners were wonderful and personally helped us pick all the best varieties for our personal taste. They were so helpful and even shared recipes and growing tips as we walked through the greenhouses! It was awesome and I will most definitely be going back.

One more pepper and I know this one is going to be a yellow bell pepper. I don't know the variety but I do remember from planting it. That bell pepper is about 1/3 as tall as the whole plant. I'm not sure if I should have picked it so that the plant would thrive more or not but I left it on for now. Hopefully the plant can handle it.

Lastly but not leastly...the humble pan patty squash. When they are fully grown I think that they look like spaceships. This one has several growing and one that didn't do well so was already picked although inedible. Poor little guy. 

There are more tomatoes growing on almost every plant. There are a few plants that are holding out but they have grown tremendously and are doing well. There are also a couple zucchini hanging out that I haven't gotten a picture of yet. The hold outs so far include miniature popcorn ( I had high hopes), the beans, okra, and cucumbers. These are all also growing well so I think patience will be the key. More photos later this week.

The Garden Today!