Thursday, July 29, 2010

Took some pictures today. Missed out on taking pictures of the carrots! They were beautiful and we ended up being very successful with about a dozen good size, yummy smelling carrots. Mr. Dave's kids will be able to share with you how they tasted, as that is who will be eating them!

I hope everyone is enjoying their summer!!! See you soon!



tomatoes

tomatoes

slowly growing sunflowers

squash and cucumber plants

Anyone know what this is?

marigolds

green beans

cucumber

cucumber

peppers and cosmos

peppers and cosmos

corn

Caden Grajkowski Memorial with marigolds

Friday, July 16, 2010

It finally worked... :)

In the pictures, I am standing on the roof looking out towards Dempsey Rd. I gave description of some pictures at the beginning of the blog and thought the rest of them were self explanatory. The marigolds are growing like crazy! Thanks goes out to my brother's family and mom who sent seeds from their marigolds last year!

Corn


Tomatoes


Cosmos


Fr. Schmitt's tomatoes (They were a favorite of a squirrel, so he is trying out the garden for protection, seems to be working.)




Right hand side of the garden (while looking out towards Dempsey Rd); cucumbers and squash are in the top bed; tomatoes,lettuce and green beans are in the middle; cosmos and green peppers on bottom



This is the area that had our fantastic peas. I redug most of the ground and added in lots of compost.

This is the left side of the garden (while looking out towards Dempsey Rd; left bed has the rest of the carrots and that is also where the onions grew; middle bed is full of more green beans



Can you see the carrot that was pulled? It is sitting on the stepping stone almost in the middle of the picture.





Thursday, July 15, 2010

July 15...Frustrated...........

Took some AWESOME pictures from the roof of the church today. Unfortunately, I am trying to upload them and have been unsuccessful... :( I will keep trying! Thanks Schwarm family for keeping such a good eye on the watering during this hot week. Wahl family is up for the following week.

Saturday, July 10, 2010

Update on July 10th!

Awesome work, Charnitz/Pugh and Sniadach families! The garden looks wonderful!!!!! I went today and did some "renovating". I pulled the peas all down and redug most of that area. I mixed some of the composting from early spring.

The green beans are producing like crazy!!! Lots and lots of tomatoes and green peppers. I found several zucchini and yellow squash that are quickly ripening. The cosmos and marigolds are offering a bit of color to the garden, too. The corn and sunflowers are growing, slowly, but they are growing! :)

I pulled the rest of the onions. There are still some carrots growing. They are so cute. I also left the lettuce, but it is almost at its end, so stop by and cut some off, if you have a chance.

Here are some pictures to help you see what is going on!

These are all the goods I picked today. There are a ton of green beans at the bottom of this bucket.





This is corn. I believe most of the stocks are "Knee High By the 4th of July"! Hopefully we'll see some sweet corn eventually!




The cosmos are so dainty and add a little color to the green garden.



Not sure if you can tell, but I put up a homemade fence. I bought a bunch of shims and made them stakes and strung string around each one. Looks pretty good. I plan to do this around all the plots so that we can easily identify where they are...



This one shows just how many tomatoes we will have shortly. I am not a tomato lover, so please feel free to stop by and pick them once they turn red!




ps. The Schwarm family is up for weeding and watering this coming week. Thank you for the hard work!