Garden update

I posted several months ago that our poor garden was washed away in a downpour. That was true, however we had a couple of key plants survive. A zucchini, a yellow squash, some sweet basil and two eggplants. To that we added some cherry tomato plants, cauliflower and a canteloupe plant. Then, every time Blake mows, he bags the clippings and tosses them on the garden. It is now an amazing sight! We just picked our first fruit (A MASSIVE zucchini) with two more ready to pick on Sunday.

The tomatoes are huge and green, the canteloupe has about 20 blooms on it (canteloupe anyone??) and we have more sweet basil than we know what to do with. If we're coming to see you any time soon and you want any of the following please speak up: Tomatoes, canteloupe, chives, mint, basil and perhaps zucchini and squash.


















PS-We've done this garden completely organic. We read a book my dad had about only using mulch to make and amazing garden (it traps moisture and you never have to water. ever. It works.) but we had a problem with bugs and worms. I was ready to go buy pesticide, but Blake said "let's see what the extension office has to say about this." He's so smart. He found a bunch of stuff from K-State about preditory bugs and how to attract them. It involves blooming flowers and clover. After purchasing some marigolds, button flowers and a butterfly bush, and the tons and tons of clover that grows freely in our yard our bug problem is all but behind us. I'm not kidding. Butterflies, lady bugs and spiders have taken care of the bugs.