sábado, 26 de diciembre de 2009

More veggies

The peppers have just started to grow. They have flowers now since temperature is in the 28 degrees Celcius. I only have one butternut squash so far. It's very pretty.









Trees


The backyard has some trees too. My favorite one is the banana tree! Now the bananas are green. I can't wait to try them! We also have tangerines, lemons, plums, figs and grapes. there's an avocado tree as well. It's so huge I cannot even take a picture!





























Herbs

I have lots of herbs in my garden. They are very handy when you are cooking. They are very easy to grow. They don't bring you any problems! I have tyme, oregano, basil, mint and rosemary.





















Flowers






My mom has a beautiful garden too. When you go to the garden or backyard you always find new flowers blooming!



Enjoy the pics!























































































Butterfies are awesome! I always run to grab my camara whenever I see one!






























jueves, 24 de diciembre de 2009

My Garden is growing!










Since last November, all the veggies have grown a lot. So far, I have eaten cherry tomatoes, regular tomatoes, cabbage and lots of lettuce and spinach!!


















Here are some pics.



























































domingo, 1 de noviembre de 2009

Other veggies



I have a little bit of everything in my garden. I have squash, cabbage, eggplants, peppers, lettuce, spinach, and even corn! The picture below is the squash!









This is the lettuce. Snails love lettuce so I need to be careful. I was told I can combat them with beer! They must get drunk and forget what they came in for ;-)









This is spinach (acelga). I planted them too late, I think and now they have flores. We are hoping they'll still keep growing!

Green beans - chauchas



Green beans were fun to grow. I started with a germination. The prohuerta program distributes seeds to whoever wants to grow a garden for free!









Green beans grow very fast and pretty soon I had these little plants. I was told they need a lot of water!











Now my plant has flowers already! I have 8 plants total so I'm hoping to eat great salads in summer!