by Diana McCollum
This year we've planted a lot of flowers and vegetables in our yard. Early mornings when it is cool I like to meander on the gravel paths and check the flowers and vegetable gardens. My husband always plants dahlias they are some of our favorites. When we moved in here 3 yrs ago, there was just a lawn and dirt out back.
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| back yard |
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| Area desert before we developed |
Now these areas look so much different.
There are flowers and vegetable gardens.
This area we now call Rubble Butte. We have different kinds of catus and a fire pit, mounds of rocks.
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| Bouquet from the garden |
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| Peas, beans, squash and roses! |
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| Kitchen garden-green onions, radishes, lettuce herbs etc |
It's been a joy to watch seeds sprout and blossoms bloom.
And I had my first fresh salad with lettuce, radish and basil from my garden. Tomatoes are coming along but not ripe yet, egg plants have set and we have a few growing. Only blooms on the squash, melons and watermelons.
Those are the new things I look for each day as I water the plants. Blooms, new growth, tendrils and new sprouts.
Do you have flowers or vegetables you enjoy?
HAPPY SUMMER(I know it's not here yet, but soon!)
