Sharing our Gardens

At one of the blogs I frequent we've been asked to Share Gardening Pics.....Since I had hoped to be 'moved' by now....we didn't put in a Garden this year.....so I'm sharing some of my gardening photos from years past.

This was our garden in 2006

This is from the end of last years growing season...all that left are the pumkins, watermelon and squash....

These pumpkins were HUGE last year.....

Here are a bunch of them on and around the front porch....

And here we have Drama Teen rolling one to the car to take back to her Dorm....it was too big and too heavy to carry!

We live on 3 acres in Virginia and have put in a substantial garden every year since we moved here. Commander is the one who usually plants and tends....the kids have helped out thru the years. I usually don't tend the garden very well...as I seem to have a black thumb and manage to kill everything!! LOL...

I DO harvest sometimes though. And, I've really enjoyed having a garden all these years. It so awesome to be able to just go out to the garden and pick veggies for that nights dinner! We also have a few Fruit Trees, although, we haven't had a lot of luck with them. Bugs and birds tend to get to the fruit before we can.

I've even learned to can some of our veggies...here are some Candied Beets from 2006! And those pumkins there in the background were from our garden that year. Those I baked and scraped the pulp to store in the freezer for baking later in the year.

One year we did have a nice apple crop and I made applesauce.....and another year we had a nice pear crop and I canned them.