Finally

Just finished putting the garden in.

It's only over a month late.

Been a crazy busy Spring for me. 

New Potatoes (way late, should have been Feb 14)

Tomatoes

Red Sweet Peppers

Green Bell Peppers

Cucumbers

Yellow Crock Neck Squash

Zucchini Squash

Cabbage

Watermelon for the very first time.

Hope you all are doing okay and are having a happy Spring.

Hope to be back to bloggin soon.

Take care my friends!

Tasty Tuesday From My Garden

I know it is Wednesday but I am at the beach with the GRANDs and niece and nephew.

They are still sleeping so of course I'm blogging.

Once they are awake I'm done for the day.

It will be all Fun and Sun!

(Not my favorite to much any more. You find me in the

 shade under the hat and long sleeve shirt with a good book.)

I can not tell you how exciting it was to pick my first tomato of the season.

This is the first year we  have had any luck growing tomatoes.

Why are they such a fussy plant?

But they are my favorite by far!

I can eat three of these tomatoes just cut up with salt and pepper as a meal.

2 Handed Kitchen Sink Tomato Sandwich

Ingredients:

1 -2 large fresh picked vine ripened tomato

2 slices bread

salt and pepper

Kraft mayonnaise

Directions:

1 In the peak of tomato season, chill 1 very large or 2 medium size tomatoes that have been vine-ripened and have plenty juice.

2.Take 2- slices of bread and coat them with 1/4 inch good mayonnaise.

3. Add layer of tomatoes cut 1/4 inch thick.

4. Salt & Pepper to taste.

5. Add another slice of tomatoes and salt and pepper to taste again.

6. Add the other piece of bread on top of this.

7. Roll up your sleeves and start eating over the kitchen sink while the juice runs down your elbows.

BEST SUMMER SANDWICH BESIDES THE B.L.T!!

Tasty Tuesday From My Garden

Sorry Tauna for showing off my garden veggies when you

haven't had decent weather to even plant your garden yet.

My Garden has done wonderful this year

compared to the last few years.

This salad was so easy.

Just boil your favorite pasta.

Drain and while it is still hot pour your favorite Italian dressing

over the top and stir it in and then let it continue to cool off.

Chop into small pieces your favorite garden veggies.

I was so excited to finally have broccoli grow in my garden.

I've planted it the last few years but have never had it bloom.

So I added my broccoli, yellow summer squash,

 green bell pepper, red onion, and cucumber.

The onion was the only thing I didn't grow.

Add the veggies to the cool pasta and then refrigerate

until cold. Enjoy!

 I've never had a tomato plant grow this big
so I had Anna stand beside it so we could tell how big it has gotten!

They haven't started turning red yet but this one will make

wonderful fried green tomatoes!

There are tomatoes just covering all 5 plants.

They have gotten so heavy they were falling over and so we have had to stake them qnd tie them up.

We have also had an abundant supply of cucumbers.

I've been making lots of zucchini bread.

10 loaves yesterday to give to my V/T sisters.

We never get tired of yellow squash cooked with Vidalia onions.

I also cooked a head of cabbage from my garden

yesterday but forgot to take a picture of it.

We have really enjoyed our fresh veggies and

feel very blessed to have had such a good garden this year.

I'm Only Missing Tomatoes

A visit to the Atlanta Farmers Market yielded

a 25 pound bag of sweet onions- $8.00

1 1/2 bushels of bell peppers $14.00.

Lots of other things too.

But the one thing I didn't get were the tomatoes

that I need to make salsa.

Hope to get them in the next few weeks from

Waycross, GA. You can pick a 5 gallon bucket

full for $6.00!

I am going to go ahead and chop the onions and

the bell peppers so that when I do get the tomatoes

it won't take that long to make the salsa.

My goal is to have more salsa than Tauna!

I'm sure she didn't know it was a competition.

Just kidding, Tauna.

I love the salsa I made this summer for the first time

and my goal is to have 365 jars of it so

that I have a jar a day for the next year.

Just kidding on that thought too!

I do tend to go a little over board when I like certain things

but I have already eaten all the salsa I put up in July.

Photo Hunt

Saturday Photo Hunt

This weeks theme ~ Free

These veggies were FREE to me.

Thankful to friends that share their bounties!

Oh My

Not an hour after I post my last post this morning

than I get a phone call from the Sweetheart.

He called to say that our "Squash sharing gardening friend"

had brought us a bucket full along with some eggplant and some tomatoes.

Feeling all humble and stuff.

I think we will have some Pork Chops and rice

along with some good ole veggies for supper!

Summer time yum!

What To Do

This is what I picked out of my garden yesterday.

Okay, I ate the tomatoes.

But what do you do with one Okra and one Squash???

There are no more ready to be picked for several days.

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If we had to live on what we grew in our garden

I just beleive we might starve,

just sayin!!

Weeds and Newspaper

Do you think my garden pictures seem a little strange?

Last year I attended a little gardening class and the Home Extension Agent told us to use newspaper to cut down on weeds in the garden.

I used newspaper on one row.

That was the only row that didn't get overcome by weeds!!

I learned my lesson from last year,

the weeds over took my garden and Me!!

It was a nightmare!

I had dreams of weeds growing out my ears and into my shoes.

So this year I wised up and did every row with news paper.

If you want to know more about gardening with newspaper

all you have to do is google it.

There are all kinds of ideas out there on this subject.

But as for me and my house,

"WE ARE BELIEVERS!!!"

Home Grown

Perfect day for planting!

Thankful for sons who help their parents.

Tomatoes

yellow crook neck squash

zucchini

broccoli

cabbage

cucumbers

okra

That's all I have so far, I'm sure I'll throw something else in there before it's over with, yum!

Help Wanted

My garden needs help!

But please wear a shirt.

The mosquitoes will drag you away.

Oh, and...

Please send an Indian too.

Rain dance needed right away!

Thank you.

Tasty Tuesday

Top Of The Morning To Ya!

Rea

Shelby

These were last years St Patrick's day pictures. I tried all last week to get some this years pictures for St Patty's day but with no luck. I'll try again today. Shelby's sick again with a sinus infection and sure doesn't feel much like smiling so who knows if I'll get any or not.

So here's today's green Leprechaun Recipe.

Leprechaun Pudding

(formally known as Watergate Salad)

1 (3.4 ounce) package instant pistachio pudding mix (can be the sugar free)
1 (8 ounce) can crushed pineapple, with juice
1 cup miniature marshmallows
1 (8 ounce) container frozen whipped topping, thawed.
DIRECTIONS:
In a large bowl, mix together pudding mix, pineapple with juice, marshmallows. Fold in whipped topping. I added a few extra drops of green food coloring so it would be nice and green. Chill.

Look at what else is GREEN! It's my cabbage plant! Whho hoo, it's actually growing!

Presidents Day

Just precious when they are sleeping!

I brought big Anna home with me from Kingsland, Sunday afternoon, after Stake Conference. (Shelby has taken to calling her Big Anna because there is a girl in her class named Anna and this is the way she distinguishes them.)

Harry and Anna then went and got Shelby to spend the night with us. Reagan was not happy about her 'Bella' being gone. Next time she'll have to spend the night too.

Monday morning after breakfast we went to fly kites on the beach. The day's forecast was to be Sunny and high of 65*. We got to the beach and it was cloudy and 55*.

Soon as we get the kite in the air the sky changed to this color and no more sun. Just cold wind.

I show you this picture so you can see how the wind was blowing Shelby's ponytails? And it was COLD. We did not last an hour.
That's right Rea, zip your jacket up!

After leaving the beach we decided to feed the birds with the $1.00 loaf of old bread that we got last week to feed birds but never got around to doing. That was a big hit but the birds got very aggressive before we got through. Shelby was up under my arm trying to get away from them.

Soon as that was over we went and had lunch and went to lunch at Chic-Fil-A and then to Home Depot for gardening supplies.

My very nice brother in law drove 30 miles from Kingsland.

He brought his trusty tiller. I didn't say rusty tiller, because it isn't.

To do this to my yard! He got my garden started for me.
See the picture above this one.
The black bucket right behind the tiller.
That is his left over seed potatoes that he gave me.
It's time to plant potatoes, onions and carrots if you are going to plant them. Aunt Patsy and Uncle Sam planted theirs last week. I'm going to try and stay up with them and I'm already a week behind. But it'll just have to be OKAY!

That was not all of the day. As soon as Anthony, Carla, Jami and big Anna left we went to Sears and Harry bought a new lawn mower. Whoo hoo! Last years model at a great discount. So we did our part to help the economy to grow.

Do you recon that was a fun filled day or what?