Enjoying the fruits of our labor

I know not everyone gets as excited over a garden as I do, but that's okay. I am still going to tell about my garden.

One of the downers of renting is not being able to have our own yard or garden spot. My parents are very kind and let me share their garden spot. It is a great arrangement for the both of us, my mom gets help and I get to have a garden. My mom and I planted the garden ourselves and it took us 6 1/2 hours one day and about another 2 hours another day to fill the wall-of-waters around our tomatoes and peppers. The pictures aren't much to look at because you can't really see any of the plants.

We lay the black plastic down to help control the weeds and it really does a great job.

You can tell in the pictures we didn't fill all of the wall-of-waters. By the time we finished laying down the plastic, planting and watering the plants by hand, placing the cages and wall-of-waters around the peppers and tomatoes we were pretty tired. We spent 2 hours the following Monday to finish filling the wall-of-waters.

Here is what the garden looks like now. My mom and I are so excited over the garden because this is the first year, in many years, that we have had the whole garden grow. We got a new watering system, a tri-pod sprinkler, and it works great.

On the left side, what you can see is the pumpkins and behind the pumpkins are zucchini and cucumbers. In front of the pumpkins are the peppers. The main plant in the picture are the tomatoes.

In this pictures are the onions and the beans.

Here are the peas! This is what I am most excited for. For the past 5 to 7 years we have tried to grow peas but our watering system was not great and the peas never got enough water. Well, this year we will have peas and I am thrilled. I even got to pick about a dozen this past Saturday and they were delicious. On the right side of the peas are more tomatoes. We plant a lot of tomatoes because me and all of my siblings go through a lot for spaghetti and salsa.

This is another one I am excited for. Raspberries! My grandma and uncle used to have a huge raspberry patch that my siblings and I used to pick in. It was kind of side job for my uncle and we worked for him during the summer. One summer they decided they didn't want to take care of it anymore so they got rid of it. I was really sad because I loved those berries. So my mom got some starts and we started our own patch. If you look at the first picture behind the last row of wall-of-waters, that is were the raspberries are. They have grown a lot and have tons of berries on them. There is one problem however, the TURKEY'S. They eat everything before they are ripe enough for us to eat. So we will have to do our best at keeping the turkey's at bay.

I love summer, I love the green grass, the green trees, the beautiful flowers, and gardening. It is nice to actually have something to show for all of our hard work in the garden.