We LOVE to garden at our house! When we were searching for a house we really wanted a big backyard and fruit trees, well we got both with our house. It is a nearly 65 year old house built by an Agriculture professor at NCSU, so there is an awesome pear and apple tree in the backyard. Since the year we moved here, 2005, we have not had a good fruit crop. This year it is great! Below is just one of the many loaded branches on the pear tree.
We also have our usual garden. Which so far has produced a squash and zucchini, that were very tasty. We have a few cucumbers and green beans about ready. As well as the starting of an eggplant, some watermelon and tomatoes. There are two plants that are huge but have nothing yet and that is the cantaloupe and pumpkin. The pumpkins just keep voluntarily, and never really do anything, growing along with a ton of tomato plants, mainly cherry tomatoes. So once the tomatoes start coming we shouldn't have to buy any of those for a while. I may try to start making my own salsa!
The boys love the apple tree, probably too much as they keep wanting to pick them. I think the apples are a cross between a golden delicious and a crispin, at least that is what I found on Google. Hopefully I will have my act together enough to do something fun with all these like baked apples or applesauce.
We also have our usual garden. Which so far has produced a squash and zucchini, that were very tasty. We have a few cucumbers and green beans about ready. As well as the starting of an eggplant, some watermelon and tomatoes. There are two plants that are huge but have nothing yet and that is the cantaloupe and pumpkin. The pumpkins just keep voluntarily, and never really do anything, growing along with a ton of tomato plants, mainly cherry tomatoes. So once the tomatoes start coming we shouldn't have to buy any of those for a while. I may try to start making my own salsa!
The boys love the apple tree, probably too much as they keep wanting to pick them. I think the apples are a cross between a golden delicious and a crispin, at least that is what I found on Google. Hopefully I will have my act together enough to do something fun with all these like baked apples or applesauce.
Our wonderful garden! The bags and pie plates are hopefully there to keep some birds and such away and the fencing because we have about a dozen rabbits in our yard. At our old house we didn't really have to use anything and my parents who live in the country just have their garden around the outside fence of the pool and nothing ever touches it, so odd.
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