updates...

 the "Kitchen Garden 2013"...

 cleared off the patio, so now we can actually go out and have coffee...

 moved the roses and Lemon/Lime trees out into the sun...

 garden this year, green beans, butternut squash, onions and cherry tomatoes...

 the azaleas planted last year survived and are growing, maybe we'll get some pink blooms next year...

 Kenneth made a top for the bench and now we're waiting for the flowers to start blooming...

 picture of the new fence in the front...

taken this morning, Thursday, June 6, 2013, it's raining and 68* at 11:00am.

1 zucchini, 2 zucchini...

3 Zucchini...more.

 WHAT DO YOU DO WITH YOUR EXCESS ZUCCHINI?

Spiced Nuts and Zucchini Corn Bread

Ingredients

• 1     cup all-purpose flour
• 1     cup yellow cornmeal
• 1/2   cup spiced mixed nuts (salt and pepper mixed nuts), finely chopped
•          (can just use peanuts also)
• 1/3   cup sugar
• 4      teaspoons baking powder
• 1/4   teaspoon salt
• 4      eggs
• 1/2   cup butter, melted
• 1/2   cup unsweetened applesauce
•  
• 1      cup coarsely shredded zucchini
• 1      cup shredded sharp cheddar cheese (4 oz.)
• 1/2   cup finely chopped onion
•  
•   Directions
  1. Preheat oven to 300 degrees F. Grease a 13x9x2-inch baking pan; set aside. In a large bowl stir together flour, cornmeal, nuts, sugar, baking powder, and salt; set aside.
  
  
  2. In a bowl whisk together the eggs, butter, and applesauce. Stir in the zucchini, cheese, and onion. Add egg mixture all at once to cornmeal mixture. Stir just until moistened. Pour batter into prepared pan.
  
  
  3. Bake 50 to 60 minutes, just until edges are golden brown. Cool slightly; serve warm.

what's growing...

front bed:eggplant, crookneck squash, zucchini

middle bed:okra, onions (which we just pulled)

far bed:tomatoes

baby squash

baby eggplant

kitchen garden...

 

this is our 4th year to plant the "Kitchen Garden"

 but first I will have to weed...

 

lots and lots of weeding

 and then some more weeding...

 

 it took me two days...

 plants on sale at Home Depot,  half price...awesome

cleaned out the patio pots...

 to make room for two rose bushes...

which are blooming...

 

 beds cleaned out...

 tomatoes

squash, zucchini,  egg plant

 okra

peaches

here we go again...

Kenneth let me get two more lemon and lime trees...

this time they already have fruit on them. 

After 5 years I never got anything from my others.

Lesson learned...never order fruit trees off line.

and my "choclate mint has survived...

June Kitchen Garden Update...

onions co-planted with okra, on the left and peppers on the right...

tomatoes and summer squash

squash is growing...

squash also planted at the end of the greenbean bed...

green beans...

baby tomatoes, there really only about the size of a quarter...

Kitchgarden 2011...

mint from last year...

summer squash planted at the end of two planters...

tomatoes...

okra planted all amongst the onions...

green beans fill this planter...

2011 kitchen garden...

Onions planted in January...

April update... also planted peppers; some sweet, hot and jalapenos.

11 tomato plants and will put some summer squash in the end...
the onions in the left corner are from last year.

We (my crew ((Kenneth)) and I) planted 3 fruit trees along the front property line...1 super sweet white peach, one super sweet yellow peach and a super sweet plum, can't hardly wait to see if we get some next year.

well hello there... I went out to weed around the heat pump and discovered
these two little lizards sunning on the hose reel, I can weed later.
Do you see them?