Fresh Fruit

Since we got our fence up, it seems to be keeping out the rabbits really well. I'm very excited about this since I haven't been able to grow green beans since we moved to this house. I did have to go to the Farmer's Market Saturday to buy some rhubarb. We have our own plant, but it seems to be too dry for it this year. I've picked three times and this last time it didn't look all that ready. I made strawberry rhubarb sauce with it and it tasted really good! I have plenty of strawberries and rhubarb now to try to can the sauce. It will be quite the adventure since I've not canned this sauce before. It's always an adventure trying to can in our kitchen though. It's a little small, but we manage to do it!

Rabbits

I absolutely cannot stand rabbits any longer. They decided to eat my pepper plants. All of them. Down to hardly any stem left. Whoever said that rabbits won't eat pepper plants are LIARS! They love them! Can't get enough of them! I'm trying to salvage what is left of them, but I don't have very high hopes. We started to put a fence around the garden, but with the lightning storm, we decided to call it a night. They also like onion tops. Fortunately, not as much so the onions are doing all right still. I'm hoping to get the fence up before the green beans start coming up!

Finally, It's Done

I finally finished planting our garden yesterday. We went to the store and bought seeds for cucumbers and beans, and pepper and tomato plants as well as tomato cages. I got everything without incident and even got the tomato cages up. I found out our garden hose does not have any holes and had little problems rolling it up. Now we just sit, weed, water and wait. We're planning on putting a fence around it on Saturday, and I'm hoping to clean out the spot for my herb garden so we can get that planted. (I'm really hoping to get to can my own salsa this year!)

I am thinking that I have my husband convinced that we should try growing our own tomato and pepper plants next year. It was a little pricey buying already growing plants. Hopefully we'll have the capability to do it!

I'll put pictures of our bounty up, once we can harvest.

Mistake

I finally got batteries for our camera, so I can now show you my quilting mistake. This is what the square is supposed to look like. This is what I did.
It might not be noticeable since I didn't finish out the "mistake" square, but it would look funny if the squares weren't the same and since I have more of the "correct" squares started, it's just easier to fix.

Gardening

It has been really rainy for the past few weeks. We finally had the chance to get out and garden yesterday. I weeded the strawberries for almost an hour and didn't get all of it done. I did have to transplant a few rogue strawberry plants that had decided to grow on the lawn. I also transplanted some holly hocks that were trying to take over the strawberry patch. I'm not sure if the holly hocks will survive, but I tried. I also picked my rapidly growing rhubarb. Like I said, it's been raining here quite often and the rhubarb just took off! I cut it up, after giving half of what I picked to a friend, and got about 2 1/2 cups from what I picked. I made this really tasty, sugar-free strawberry rhubarb sauce. Of course we are out of ice cream and weren't able to try it out. Hopefully we'll be able to plant the rest of the garden this week, however they are calling for more rain for most of the week.

Batteries

I took some pictures of my quilt mistake. However, the batteries in my camera are dead. And of course the only batteries we have are triple A's, not double A's. And of course it doesn't turn on when plugged into the computer. So, sometime, I'm going to have to buy some more batteries. I just bought a pack of triple A's because I thought we were out of them, only to come home to two 18 packs. Oh, well. I'm sure we'll find a use for all of the triple A's.

News

It's been a very emotional week for us. I found out I was pregnant, then I miscarried shortly after. It's been tough and I haven't really felt like blogging. Hopefully I'll be back on track in a couple of weeks. Thanks for your patience!