Taking a walk in the woods. Singing show tunes. Loving the green.
QTIP.

Rain Barrel Compost

This is our second compost. The first is a pile and this one is more of a bin. One of our rain barrels broke so I drilled holes in it and set it near the old pile. It has holes in the bottom for worms and it has a lid. At the moment there happens to be a cantelop sprout growin out of one of the holes.

Creepy Crawler

This little fellow has been hanging out on our back fence all summer long. It is as big as a bannana spider, but doesn't have the typical markings I'm used to seeing.

Garden Pic's

This is one of our squash blossoms. This is our butternut squash plant, one of many. They have been growing like crazy. Within the last 2 days they have bloomed beautiful yellow flowers in abundance. I was a little worried that the bed was over crowded, still am; however, today I noticed the first few squashes growing! I will get a pic soon!

Rain

It rained today! so that means more water for the rain barrels. We are currently using two rain barrels to water our gardens. We also have two drip systems set up to water two of the larger three beds. I need to set up a third, but I need to first figure out how to rig the system to a rain barrel. Thats a future goal.

Can't beat a beet!

Momma's first Beets. I really like the color of this plant. I actually ate fresh beets for the first time a week ago, so I am very happy I took a chance and planted these. Only two of the sprouts survived. Hopefully we will get a side dish out of these.

Compost Squash

Here is our compost pile. Beware what you throw in your compost. We now have a gaggle of butternut squash growing. We have a second compost that we are building up this winter and will transfer here in the spring, so we are letting this grow. I want to see if they will bare fruit.