Our Weeds...oops, I mean Garden

We have been very blessed here in Bishop. Some members at church have given us a sizable plot in an acre lot that they own for us to garden. They garden for the farmer's market.

It is so much fun to start the garden...and then, reality hits...nothing grows, the birds eat your little green plants you were so excited for, the weeds are bigger than any of the plants, and in our case you have a very nice vole family living under your garden.

So, we have been working hard over there, things are starting to grow a bit and it is good exercise. Abel and I usually bike over there (about 4 miles round trip) once a day to water and weed.
We have carrots, beets (6 of them have decided to grow:), kolorabi, cabbage, onions, beans, dry black beans and dry yellow beans, corn, tomatoes, peppers, watermelons, and pumpkins.

Taken about 2 weeks ago, you can see our dried beans to the far left are doing really well! The spot to the far right is where we have planted beets...2 times! Only 6 of them made it:)

Two weeks ago

It is starting to pick up a bit with the warmer weather sticking around. Abel has the most fun walking in the creek that runs through it and playing in the mud with his trucks. He also is quite good at watering (aka drowning) the plants.


For better or worse, it is a good experiment and we will try again next year:)

P.S. Since I wrote this things have been going MUCH better:) We are getting some tint on our tomatoes, we have had about 10 beans(!) and the corn is getting bigger every minute...I will put some updated pictures on soon.