Extra Water = Happier Garden!

Well giving the plants a larger dose of water last night seems to have done the trick!  Here are more pictures of it!

My cucumber plants

A close up of my potato plants

A back view of my potato plants, aren't they lovely?

A close up of a cucumber plant

On the left, my green bean plants, on the right more tomato plants

Going left to right, top to bottom:  Cilantro, basil , honey dew, bell pepper, sage, dill

left to right in rows: zucchini plants, bell peppers, carrots (too small to really see) and more tomatoes.  In the very back right is my lettuce.

A close up of Lulu (my hanging tomato plant)'s new flowers.  I think she's up to about six!

A close up of my zucchini plants

I'm so proud of how well my little garden is doing!  I also really like and would recommended the weather channel website's garden watering app.  It's really handy and since I check the weather daily anyways it really helps!

Larping and Garden work :)

Yesterday we were out at Ford Lake all day running Kingdom of Valin: A New Dawn.  The Larp  It was alot of fun and we had a really good turn out!  See Pictures Here.  So today my husband and I just sat around and relaxed.  We visited his dad and then worked on the garden.  We added some pepper plants (jalepenos and bell) as well as some tomatoes.  We planted garlic seeds and watered it!  Lulu has more flowers!  I think we're up to about six flowers!  I'm really excited for my "crop" to come in!  We've decided that maybe we weren't watering our plants enough.  My husband watered them for a long time last night and today most of them have doubled in size.  I'll be planting pictures of it soon!  All in all, it was a great weekend, but I feel like it's gone by too fast.  Oh!  For the Larp I made some amazing cucumber sandwiches!  Here's the recipe/instructions:

Cucumber Sandwiches

• 2-4 cucumbers sliced thinly or cut into small chunks (this depends on how large your cucumbers are or how much of their flavor you wish to taste)
• 2 packages of cream cheese
• 1 package of ranch dressing seasoning 

1. Slice your cucumbers into thin slices.  I also like to slice them into strips after this as well.
2. Mix your cream cheese and ranch dressing packet with a mixer until smooth.  (I don't think the mixer is completely necessary but it makes things faster).
3. Mix the cucumber slices into the blended mix. 
4. Refridgerate (or keep cool) for a few hours.
5. Slather onto bread and serve!

My recipe does make quite a bit (It was enough to make sandwiches with two loaves of bread with the mixture spread very thinly) but it does keep really well and remains tasty.  People have requested it before :)  I hope this helps y'all!  

Checking on the garden

 Well, I checked on my garden today :) and it looks like it's coming along nicely :)

my herbs, green beans (buttom left), cucumbers (bottom right) and honey dew plant!

The first flowers on my upside down tomato plant!

Potato plants (bottom and currently re buried) and zucchini (top)

As for taking pictures, I didn't get up early enough this morning to really get any visits (well that and I just refilled the feeders so they weren't expecting food).  Yesterday, late afternoon, however, the Robin who's nest is down the street came to visit me :)

I'm worried about all the little random plant babies I have springing up in the garden.  I think that since it's been raining so much some of the seeds might have gotten washed around and are now growing in unidentified non-rows.  Oh well :) This would be the type of thing I have been saving all the plant packages for!  Not pictured here are my onions (they are coming along well) and my lettuce (it seems stunted).  The potatoes are so far the crowning glory of the garden.  I'm having to add more soil once a day on average.  This is my first time growing them, so it's all new to me!  We've gone through two 40 lb bags of soil in the last week!  Everything I read online says (mostly anyways) to let them grow about 4-6 inches before you cover them (which I've been doing) and to stop when they start to flower.  So we'll see what happens!  Lulu (my tomato plant in the upside down grower) has two blossoms!  She has had a rough start.  We almost killed her trying to put her into the upside down grower (extremely difficult if your husband looses the directions) and she's acted like she has tomato blight a couple of times, but she keeps coming back strong so I'm hoping we'll get many more blossoms from her!

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