Good Bye Summer...

Well Summer is gone and I didn't post a freaking thing about my garden...

Over all it went pretty well but I hope to have more success next year.

That's about all I have say for now. Have a great week! Ang

Way behind...

Well I was going to post some more pictures of the garden but I'm frustrated that you only add one picture at a time. So when I have more time I will add more but we are just puttering along and doing fine.

I've added a shade cloth over the little bit of lettuce I have left. Seems too have made a difference but we shall see. The tomatoes are doing outstanding! Cucumbers blooming and carrots are moving slow.

I just have to say the very best thing about this garden...Matthew and I are working on it together. I can't remember the last project since building the house that we have worked so well together. It's become a place for us to just be together and I'm loving it!

My dad's garden...

Since I need to take updated pictures of my garden I thought I would share some I took of my Dad's Amazing Garden over the weekend.

Pictoral Update of My Garden from 5-19-09

I just wanted to give a quick update of how my little garden is doing. Not too bad, I'm really happy with the tomatoes! I've already had to start tieing back some of them. I've added more lettuce and carrot seeds because the first round didn't do so well. Gotta run, enjoy the pictures...I took them with my cell phone...

My Garden update...

Okay my goal this year is to REUSE items as much as possible. Well here is one more thing we've reused in the garden...

We had some leftover rebar so my husband bent 2 pieces of it to create an area for my tomatoes to be tied up on. I was so excited when he came up with the idea because he is totally getting into and helping me reach my goal this year!!!

Quick thought on what I'm going to REUSE

Well...I've been wanting to create a raised bed garden this year and I've come up with a way to combine that with my REUSE goal.

We reused some wood we already had and built this raised bed garden. So far so good...I'll add updates and pictures as I can.

2009 what will life be like???

Well Christmas and New Years are finally over and I can say mine were good...

I was able (with the help of my sister) to convince our family that only the kids would be purchased for this Christmas. I really enjoyed that less money was spent and just watching the kids open things was very nice.

New Years, well we did something different there too. We went to the Branson Landing and again had a nice time.

So with that all said here is something I've been thinking about for the coming year...

I was not going to make a resolution but I have changed my mine. My goal is to continue to be less wasteful. We've recycled for years and years. Last year I added reusable shopping bags to my list of things to do and I love that change! I do still sometimes get plastic because we use those for trash bags. But the convience of the reuseable bags is wonderful! It did take a little getting used to taking the bags in but now it's habit!

And now this year... well, I haven't figured out how yet but I'm going to make other changes to our lives that will hopefully save us money too. I know I really want to create a couple of raised bed gardens and I'd like to use junk we have around our house to create the structure. If you have any suggestions I am open to ideas.

So that's my start of a resolution I plan be less wasteful this year and look for ways to reuse items and not just trash them. So I will try to keep you updated & see how it all goes.

Happy New Year!