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Garden 2022
Yard and Garden

Garden 2022

October 29, 2022October 29, 2022 Leave a comment

Every year the garden grows a little bigger and feels a little more magical. We got lots of tomatos and peppers that I used to make my own home made salsa, and other things. Of course there was too much for me do everything with, and I’m sad to say we did throw some away. We do the best we can.

Other things:

1-A kajillion peppers, a kajillion tomatoes. Made entire batches of salsa using my own garden grown veggies.

2- Like 5 good sized watermelon. Yum!

3 -Grew some David Austen Roses – “Olivia,” “Claire,” and “Tess of the D’Ubervilles”

4- Tried some Gladiolus, and they worked! And they were beautiful! Definitely added to the regular garden rotation.

5- Tried some ranunculus from seed – and they worked. YAY!

6- Tried some ruffly cosmos, which I loved. (I kinda thought they looked like Ranunculus). But I think I’m going to retire cosmos from the garden for a few years. They get pretty messy.

7- Grew strawberries. Yay!

8- Wisteria grew like mad-awesome!

9- Dahlias! Still learning, but getting better each year.

10 – This tiny calla lily that I didn’t even know came up until I was tearing out the garden. It was hidden in the shade of the other bigger things in the box. But yay!

  • Making grandma’s salsa with tomatoes and peppers from my own garden. LOVE.
  • Cute little calla lilies that I grew. I’m so proud of myself!
  • Produce – my one and only cucumber I’ve ever been able to grow. Apparently cucumbers aren’t hard, I’m just not the wierdo who can’t ever grow them.
  • A giant caterpillar Wyatt found. That’s my finger by it.
  • Andrew is my child who LOVES gardening. Any time I’m out there, he runs out there to come work with me. He tells me all the time how much he loves to garden. I try hard not to ruin that for him (or any of them) by making them work too much out there.
  • One night Calvin and his buddies carved a bunch of tomatoes and left them around the garden for me. Ha!
  • A “Olivia” rose I planted this year.
  • Lettuce crop
  • A flower boquet from the garden.
  • Picking flowers in the morning.
  • The start of the harvest.
  • A pretty white cosmo.
  • A new, ruffly cosmo that I’ve never grown before. Too bad I don’t remember what it is! Ha!
  • Gladiolus, my first time ever growing these. They were both easy and beautiful!
  • Look at that little ranunculus! It was my first attempt at these. I’ve never tried them before because I’ve heard they don’t do well in Utah. But I did it! (and from seed too!).
  • Another boquet from the garden. Check out the Dahlias!
  • Growing boys in the garden.
  • A volunteer Zinnia that grew right where I planted a pumpkin! (The pumpkin was eaten by squash bugs.)
  • Sunflowers – a garden must!
  • Peppers and tomatoes . . . about 20 lbs worth.
  • Tomatoes, tomatillos, and carrots.
  • Looking across the garden at the house.
  • Cosmos, so pretty.
  • A really pretty Dahlia. Still learning on these ones. I don’t think I’m good at them yet.
  • Our best tomato crop of our lives!!!
  • Mo exploring in the garden.
  • Olivia looking like a painting in the garden.
  • Tomatoes
  • Gathering from the garden.
  • Beautiful Gladiolus
  • Olivia loving the garden.
  • A boquet from the garden.
  • Olivia on the swing in the garden.
  • I love these little sunflowers. I just don’t remember what they are. Ha! But I did save some heads for seeds next year.
  • This wierd Dahlia that had a stripe of darker purple in it.
  • Looking through the flowers.
  • More produce.
  • More flowers.
  • Produce.
  • Pretty Glads.
  • Garden growing.
  • These amazing shell/ruffly cosmos.
  • Garden growing bigger.
  • Nate growing bigger.
  • Cosmos in the sunlight.
  • A boquet from the garden that I took to the library.
  • Garden starting to fill in.
  • Pretty purple zinnias.
  • Sunflowers from the garden.
  • Cousins playing in the garden.
  • Cousins playing in the garden.
  • Sunflowers by string light.
  • Roasting marshmallows in the garden.
  • Snap peas in the garden.
  • Nate and Bennett enjoying the first strawberries of the season. I planted strawberries for the first time this year. I’d always heard they didn’t do super well in Utah, but what ever it was I planted, they did awesome. We had strawberries all summer long – not enough for jam or anything, but always something to snack on when ever we were out playing.
  • Baby zucchini.
  • Baby melon.
  • Playing in the garden.
  • Strawberries in the garden. I was super proud of myself for growing these.
  • Sweat peas.
  • Snap Dragons.
  • Sweet peas coming on.
  • A little study for a larger painting I would like to do of Olivia.
  • Kids roasting marshmallows in the garden.
  • Kids roasting marshmallows in the garden.
  • The Wisteria – I planted it last year, and it just sat – it didn’t die, but it didn’t grow AT ALL. This year though, it went GANG BUSTERS and got so big and pretty! I’m excited for it to fill in more.
  • Enjoying the evening in the garden.
  • Getting the garden planted.
  • A basil that Nate planted from seed and gave me for the garden.
  • Nate and Bennett ready to help get the garden started.
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