Sep 26 2008
Our Garden
Most of you do not know that we tried to have a garden this year. For as long as the girls could remember we lived in Arizona. Yards are small in Arizona plus it is very hot and dry. This means that we have never had a garden before.
When we moved to this house in Wisconsin and they saw the huge yard we riht away wanted a garden. We set aside a section of yard and put chicken wire around it. The girls wanted to plant seeds so they could get the full feel of it. This is not a very good idea in Wisconsin.
You can not plant until the middle of May here so it is not a very long growing season. Then you add on that there was a lot of flooding here in the beginning of the season followed by very little rain. It was just a very bad year to grow anything here. Even the farmers had a bad year. Many of them lost all of their corn to flooding.
Well, the season is almost over and I am a bit disappointed. We have about 6 pumpkins on the vines. No watermelons ever grew. We have 3 acorn squash that are just about ready to be picked. Around 6 cucumbers grew and 5 lemon cucumbers. The carrots did great. I think they would have done even better if they were not so close together. No onions or bell peppers grew. The corn finally started to grow when a tree branch fell and crushed them all. The guinea pigs have been enjoying eating the stalks though. The tomato plants are full of tomatoes but they have been green for over 2 weeks now. I am hoping that they will turn red before the first frost comes.
It might now have been a good year but we did have fun together gardening. It provided us with something fun to do together outside this summer. The girls really liked watching things grow and eating stuff they grew themselves.
