we got 3 or 4 cookie sheets full of carrots. did you know these are super hard to get clean? carrots have lots of little grooves.
here's jason and grant getting our small bed ready for pepper and tomato plants. we plan to buy plants in a week or so. i read an article that the last frost days for houston can be up to the middle of march, so i decided to wait before purchasing anything. also, we haven't covered this bed yet and i've already seen a bird or two.
here jason putting grubs he finds in this little paper cup thing and grant thinks it's fun to see them squirm and wiggle. i must say - jason does 99% of the hard labor in our gardening projects, and it's much appreciated!
here's what's already growing in our large bed - these are another crop of carrots - 3 rows.
on the right side is 2 rows of sugar snap peas, one row of regular peas, a row of green beans, and two rows of herbs. we still have space and i want to try corn.
still around - we transplanted the 3 blueberry plants we got 2 years ago and they have flowers and buds on them! very exciting! (i know...we need to mulch. and weed. ignore the ugly clay soil and focus on the beautiful flowers barely hanging on.)
these are garlic chives my dad sent me from california that also got transplanted - they do awesome in houston with no upkeep, so we decided to put other stuff in the garden beds and move them to regular soil. i currently have 14 plants in our backyard (jason is not so thrilled i keep separating them and transplanting them but they are so pretty and easy to grow). if anyone wants some, let me know! they are super hearty, make pretty landscape plants, keep the bugs away, and it's great to have year round chives to add to any recipe.
here's what's already growing in our large bed - these are another crop of carrots - 3 rows.
on the right side is 2 rows of sugar snap peas, one row of regular peas, a row of green beans, and two rows of herbs. we still have space and i want to try corn.
still around - we transplanted the 3 blueberry plants we got 2 years ago and they have flowers and buds on them! very exciting! (i know...we need to mulch. and weed. ignore the ugly clay soil and focus on the beautiful flowers barely hanging on.)
these are garlic chives my dad sent me from california that also got transplanted - they do awesome in houston with no upkeep, so we decided to put other stuff in the garden beds and move them to regular soil. i currently have 14 plants in our backyard (jason is not so thrilled i keep separating them and transplanting them but they are so pretty and easy to grow). if anyone wants some, let me know! they are super hearty, make pretty landscape plants, keep the bugs away, and it's great to have year round chives to add to any recipe.
here's a newcomer - we were given a cara cara navel orange tree as a present a few months ago. now we just need to find a spot to plant it...
