Flowers and Veggies Galore

My little backyard garden is coming along nicely.

There's been plenty of rain and everything has been enjoying it.

I have not been successful with squash, zucchini or eggplant for the last couple of years, but this year just might be different---

I'm still hoping someone will share a nice homemade wine recipe for these beauties---

Otherwise, I'm just going to have to eat them right off the vine!

And I'm just waiting for the tomatoes to get ripe so I can put them up---

AND turn some of them into spaghetti sauce---- but not these little ones. They go from the vine to the mouth.

The flowers add a nice color to the garden----

I am probably better at growing them than the veggies---

Though I enjoy trying my hand at both---

How's your garden growing?

How Does Your Garden Grow?

The garden is coming along nicely what with all this rain we've been having. You won't see any pictures of the squash and zucchini because all those plants died again this year. I don't know WTH I'm doing wrong there but this is the third year in a row this has happened. There are no pix of the spinach and Romaine lettuce because we ate all of it and it's all done. You also won't see any pictures of the cucumbers or pumpkin plants because I forgot to take pictures of those- my really nice neighbor was outside and I was distracted talking with her. and the sunflowers haven't bloomed yet though something is really eating up their leaves- dang it. It's a good thing we love tomatoes.

DoodleBug and I LOVE cherry tomatoes--

and 'regular' tomatoes----

but cherry tomatoes are our favorites---

I'm just really glad to see all the tomatoes are coming along nicely---

the green beans are doing well this year too--

so is the red lettuce...

I have some flowers planted in between some of the veggies like nasturtiums---

these are RED! I thought they were dahlias but now I'm not so sure...(anyone know?)---

anyway... you can never have too many cherry tomatoes!

What's happening in your garden?

Garden Play

The garden is coming along. So far, everything is growing instead of dying. This is a good sign.

I've been playing around in it every day since I began prepping the areas in the yard in March.

I planted squash, green beans, blue pumpkins, tomatoes, cucumbers, rosemary, sunflowers, black-eyed susans, and cosmos--some of which I must take a moment to say "Thank-You" to Kim at My Field of Dreams.

The raised beds contain my leafy greens- spinach, red lettuce, romaine, tomatoes, green beans and the same flowers.

My bird bath was too deep for the little birds so I had the husband drill holes in the bottom so I could plant flowers in it and put a smaller birdbath in the middle on a pedestal.

I also made a little flower garden between the two bird feeder poles and the bird bath.

I just love color in the garden!

And the birds? The LOVE the new birdbath set up!

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This post is part of the NaBloPoMo for May. The theme is PLAY and they provide prompts for those who want/need them. BUT you do NOT have to stick to the theme. You just have to post every day. No prompt today- weekends are free writes.