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Garden Stuff and Rangers Game

 For all you garden enthusiasts out there: A couple more pics of the redone flower beds. Got new brick and bricked them in all the way around and put down new weed guard and mulch. They really look nice now. (Yep the lawn needs mowed. Aaron and I are on our 23rd round of rock,paper, scissors, for best out of 25 to see who has to mow. :) )

 My be-yoo-tee-ful tomato plants. I have high hopes for them this year since we planted at the correct time.
 The cherry toms are starting to turn red.
 Sweet basil. Hope 4 plants will produce enough to make some yummy pesto here in a couple months.
 Swiss chard. This stuff has grown great so far. We've had two batches and need to pick it again. It is kind of taste between spinach and collard greens. It's been good with bacon and onions or just steamed with a little salt and pepper.
 Squash just came up.
 Peppers. They have some blooms but no fruit yet.
 Cukes. Hope these will do well before it gets too hot and they start turning bitter.
 My parents bought Aaron tickets to a ranger game for his birthday. It was this past Friday. I got Aaron a Ranger shirt and Cindy and Brad contributed some spending money for goodies at the park. I ended up seeing the cute Rangers dress at Target the weekend before the game. It was a little pricey for my liking but I knew Maddy would love it. She was so excited about her Rangers dress and she talks about her baseball dress all the time. Not to mention she looked pretty cute in it too! It is a little big so she will get lots of use out of it. (My rationalization for buying it.) We had a great time at the game.


Comments

bee said…
Your garden looks awesome! Can't. Believe you already have stuff to est already. MADDY does look very cute in her dress. I love her funny faces
April 30, 2012 at 10:36 PM
Ecks said…
Maddy say "cheese"! Great faces. :)
May 1, 2012 at 10:56 AM
Brandon E. said…
Great gardening! I hate mowing grass too. I always scratch my head when I hear somebody say they like it. Of course with our perpetual drought I think I started the mower once last year. And I just cranked it once this spring just to see if it would start. Haven't mowed a thing yet.

Last picture cracked me up. Maddy seems to have that ability.
May 2, 2012 at 7:02 AM
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