Saturday, June 6, 2009

Green Thumb Anyone?

One thing we love about summer is having a vegetable garden. Grand Junction is a gardener's haven... a very long growing season, plenty of water from the Colorado, and fertile soil. Everyone has gardens and it is a huge commercial business around here as well. Well we have found that we really got short-changed on the fertile soil part. We had the hardest clay soil in the whole valley I think!

We managed to make a place for a small garden, enough to have a huge crop of tomato plants, which is all I really care about. We planted in mid-April, which is normal for around here. Our tomato plants really had a rough start. Tyson had quite the time trying to figure out the right amount of water and doctoring up the soil. It has taken a month for them finally to snap out of it and start looking healthy. So we planted 35 (YES, 35!) tomato plants, peas, carrots, rhubarb, green peppers, jalapeno peppers, cilantro, white onions, zucchini squash, and summer squash. The garden is really looking great now with blossoms on the plants, and even a few small tomatoes. I can't wait until Harvest Time!




It appears as though she is helping, but I found her pulling the tomato plants out of the ground one day! Up went the fence the next day!

3 comments:

Laura said...

I think you and I have a different definition of "small". The garden looks so awesome, and a lot of work. Have fun!

kylee said...

Wow! Awesome garden! I love that Kenzie was "helping" with the garden :) That poor tomato plant!

James and Tricia Thomas said...

That's huge!!! Good luck!! I would give advice but last year my garden pretty much died! I am trying again this year!