A Perfect Pear: To Be a Farmer's Wife!: The joys of gardening and produce production

At first, I was turned off by the thought of having a large, expansive garden, like my husband would have liked. One, because we don't have the room for it. Two, because I didn't want my whole yard to be a farmer's market!

I patiently allowed Ryan to have the far side of the house to excercise his green thumb (mostly not visible when you are in the back yard... well, I didn't tell him that's why he only got that much space). I "oooo'd" and "aawww'd" when he would ask me to come and look at what was growing on a daily basis. And then I would quietly go back to what I was doing. ;)

But then something happened... I started to care what the garden looked like, and I started being interested in what made the garden grow better in some spots and not others. I started to pay attention to what was blooming, and now, sprouting into real life produce!

Maybe we were born in the wrong century... or maybe we are just nerds. Either way, we like our garden, and I guess it's not so bad being married to a farmer at heart. :-)

Here are some fun pics of our new little sprouts. This hot heat has really made them go gang-busters lately! I'll have to keep you all updated on their progress!

Our Garden :-)

Onions! They are getting sooo big!

Itty-bity pumpkins... hopefully they will grow big enough for us to carve them. We will have to have a pumpkin carving party!

Acorn squash... love that shape.

We just found a couple of these guys the other day... they are volunteer pepper plants. We make our own compost and then use it in the garden... we must have had some pepper seeds in there that found their way to the surface. Yum!