Veggie Tales

I have been feeling a little guilty today for bragging on our gardening efforts and results. I did not set out to make anyone feel bad, especially our friends in Alaska who work really hard in their gardens combating constant drizzle and hungry slugs. In all my wildest dreams, I never pictured myself living in Kansas but that is exactly where I find myself so I was determined to try and make the best of missing the mountains and good ole' salt air and plant a garden. The one thing I totally desired to grow was a pumpkin. It is something that takes some good weather and a longer growing season and I have never grown one before in my life. The three pumpkin plants that looked so very small in the big space I planted them, have now completely filled the area and then some. It was so exciting the day I saw the first baby pumpkin on the vine. We shall see how successful this venture is if even one reaches maturity. The rest of the veggies are just the bonuses. We have harvested two beautiful zucchini this week with more not far behind. We also have three cucumbers that are just days away from being perfect and the fresh lettuce has been a real treat. Tomatoes are now hanging in clusters, still green, but looking great and guess what? Not a slug in sight. Gee, it's only June. Lest anyone think we have it easy, you should know that we had some torrential rain that ripped the leaves of the poor plants to shreds and we have planted carrots twice and both times the seeds seem to have been washed away, but we have remained strong in our resolve to have some fresh veggies. We miss our Army guy a lot and that is our lemons and when life gives you lemons, you get to make lemonade. Our garden is our lemonade, something to occupy our mind and keep us busy until he gets home. Next summer we will make a farmer out of him too. So good growing all you farmer type people and enjoy those veggies.

First Fruits

Ok people, check out the first fruits of our labor.
Yes they are radishes! Neither heavy rain, hail, nor blazing sun shall keep our radishes from growing and we have had them all.

The kids were very excited to actually see something come out of the ground after watching the little plants get bigger and bigger. It's going to taste yummy on our next salad.

We also have baby zucchini, plum tomatoes and today we saw our first baby cucumber. The heavy rain we had while back shuffled our seeds around and we had radishes come up in three different spots, and we still have not seen any sign of a carrot. Some of the peas came up but we have since replanted the vacant spots and I will try one more time with the carrots and hope they don't drown with another downpour. Whoever said it doesn't rain in Kansas, has not seen it rain in Kansas and has not seen our lake which has flowed over it's boundaries into the campground.