Garden Oddities

Siamese twin squash. It's weird how they grow fused together sometimes!

He Who Plants a Garden Plants Happiness

Our garden, our little piece of heaven on earth.

Garden 2014!

This past weekend we finally got our garden planted. We finished up on Easter Sunday. Thank the Lord for the beautiful weather that we had. Our backs and knees were sore, but it's going it is always worth it.

 I got this cute garden sign at Hobby Lobby with what was left on my Christmas gift card from sister Kay. (Thanks sis!)

We planted tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, cantaloupe, squash, peppers, pole beans, lima beans, cucumbers, okra and lots of sunflowers.

We got these beautiful hanging baskets at Chuck Johnson's Nursery in Cookeville.

I redid my iris garden this year. This past fall I separated all the iris bulbs and replanted them. I didn't think they would bloom this year, but lo and behold they are.

We also added a new jackmanii clematis vine and climbing flower vines to our Iris garden. We ripped out all the plastic lattice last year and Terry built this awesome new fence on either side of our garden entrance.

Tomato plants.

Got these colorful sun catching wind chimes at Hobby Lobby as well. They are really pretty when the sun is setting.

"In my garden there is a large place for sentiment. My garden of flowers is also my garden of thoughts and dreams. The thoughts grow as freely as the flowers, and the dreams are as beautiful." ~ Abram L. Urban

"Gardening is a matter of your enthusiasm holding up until your back gets used to it." ~ Author Unknown

"Gardening requires lots of water — most of it in the form of perspiration." ~ Lou Erickson

I'm pretty excited about the first cherry tomatoes from our garden! I can't wait for the big ones to start coming in. I can taste that tomato sandwich now :0)

Baby Squash

One of the best sights in the garden, the first squash. Actually this isn't the first squash. We picked two yesterday and I'm sure this one will be ready tomorrow.

Garden Macro

Curly cucumber vine.

Squash flower.

Garden 2013

We planted our garden several weeks ago. With all the rain and heat, it's already taking off. We hope to have plenty of cherry tomatoes, beefsteak tomatoes, cucumbers, squash and okra.

Garden 2013 is well underway. This is our first cucumber flower of the season. We're hoping for a better garden this year than we had last year. So far, so good!

Okra flower macro. It's an entirely different little world in the center of that flower!

Fried Okra

I fried up our first batch of garden Okra for dinner last night and it was so yummy! It's really starting to crank with the hot weather we've been having.

This little beauty is the very first squash from our garden. I'm so
excited! :0)

Garden 2011

Our first cucumber of the 2011 garden season! It was a beauty
and tasty too. Can't wait for the maters to start cranking :0)

For the Love of Gardening

My husband Terry and I share a passion for gardening. A
few years ago we built four raised planters in our backyard.
We started our 2010 garden almost a month ago. I can't
believe how it's taken off, thanks to lots of rain recently.


We have two different kinds of cucumbers. This plant is
a burpless variety. We've already had one cucumber from
this plant. Just enough to make you want more, but there
is another one ready to pick...oh darn :)


And here it is. I found this one while tending to the garden
this morning.


This is an Armenian cucumber plant. Armenians are a
sweeter variety than the Burpless.


Tomatoes are a must in the garden. We live off those things
in the summer. Terry came up with an idea for a way to put
bird netting over our plants so the Mockingbirds won't get to
them. For some reason, Mockingbirds love our tomatoes. We
built this last Saturday.



We haven't gotten around to building a frame for bird
netting for these tomato plants yet. We may get to that
this weekend.


We have several varities of tomatoes this year. I can't
wait for these beauties to ripen. Yum!! These are called
Early Girl. We also have Beefstakes as well.


We're growing two different kinds of cherry tomatoes. We
have one red cherry plant and a yellow cherry plant. These
are the yellow cherries. We've never grown them before and
we hope they do well!


These are Clemson spineless okra plants. Okra always does
well in our garden. Okra loves heat and we have plenty of
that in Tennessee this time of year.


This is our flower garden. We're growing Giant Double mix
color Zinnias and Red Sun sunflowers. As you can see the
sunflowers are already getting tall. We leave these in the garden
after they've died out. The birds love them!


Our squash plant is huge! I can't believe how big this thing
has gotten in the past two weeks! We had our first squash
for dinner last night.


Baby squash :) Too cute and so tasty!


He who plants a garden, plants happiness! Ain't it the
truth!