Garden Update - End of Summer

In all the of commotion of hospital visits and going to the doctor with my Dad, I've gotten behind with some of my posts.  This is a garden update from the end of this summer.

This is what the backyard looked like at the end of last winter. 

I was so excited when I planted my little plants.  I was out there everyday checking to see if my plants had grown any :)

I actually didn't get any pictures of the most beautiful moments, but it didn't look too bad back then.

Click here to read some of the lessons I have learned through my gardening exploits...Depth of Earth

Another sweet little moment in the backyard.

Now that we are in the fall, I'm not sure what to do from here.  Time to look online and see about how to trim my plants.  Also have some lettuce seeds to plant.  We are in the seed unit in science for homeschool.  We'll see what we end up learning.  We had a great time harvesting the fruit of our labor.  Hopefully we can get to it, and one of these days I'll get to the rest of the 31 days of Chicken series.  Bear with me.

Delighting in the Fruits of Our Labor

This November will mark our 4th year anniversary in our apartment.  Year after year, I bought little plants and tried to keep them alive in pots to no avail because I was too selfish to plant them into the ground of the apartment we were renting.  This year, however, I decided that we were going to live in the moment and enjoy the season for what it is.  Life is too short to not seize this time to induldge in every ounce of opportunity we have been granted.  And boy, have we delighted in our little garden!  We have had many a red-smudged face.



Salads with many grape tomatoes!

Look at this vine!

Pattypan Squash

Cucumbers

Bell Pepper

Backyard Before and After

So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase. 1 Corinthians 3:7

Before:

After:



The flowers are called Nemesia, drought tolerant and easy to grow.
There is also a lemon thyme and cilantro in the back.




In the back is a blueberry bush and along the bricks are pepper plants.




Rosemary, parsley, basil and lavender can be found amongst the flowers.




This is our strawberry patch with onion plants amongst them to combat garden pests.




Our first fruits.



Tomato, squash, bell pepper and cucumber.





Raspberry bush.




There are some seedlings in the middle and of course our wise old
owl to scare the birds away from the berries and tomatoes.