Green head

when we bought it, we thought it was a lettuce plant. we put it in the ground and put the little plastic plant marker it came with with it. we read said plant marker. it grew and grew and grew. we thought it was iceberg lettuce. i posted a picture of it on my facebook page and my cousin brooke said "hey, that's cabbage."

sure enough, cousin brooke was right. it was cabbage. we laughed for a long while after going out to confirm it was in fact cabbage.

we pulled the whole thing out and gave the head away as a mother's day present. we probably could have let it grow again, but what's the point of growing something you wouldn't eat if it was the only thing left on earth to eat?

it was like digging for gems or whatever it is you dig for

I thought the potato plants had died because over the last week or so, they've started to curl at the edges and hadn't looked so great, no matter what I did. So I decided today to just pull them out, chalking it up to a garden section that just didn't work out.

Boy was I ever wrong. All in all, after some digging, I pulled 4 pounds of potatoes out of the ground. It would have probably been more like 8 had some of the largest ones not been rotten.



Also, the yellow squash was totally expected, the green? Not so much. I moved some leaves aside and there it was. Imagine my surprise -- I didn't realize I'd planted two varieties!

Sadly, though, I think that what I've planted won't make it through the hot South Texas summer, so I might have to replant in the Fall if this stuff dies off. It's okay, though, because it just means I get to start all over again.

hybrid

"Are they supposed to grow all Siamese like that?"

from a little tiny seed!

I marvel at how I planted a bunch of seeds and finally have these:



Picked from my garden today, for use tomorrow. I only wish the damned plants were taking over everything else!

A different kind of crafting

Months ago, before it became economically fashionable to do so, I decided I wanted a garden. All the things we eat right there in our backyard. It's something I've never done before and have always wanted to do, so we built two raised beds, planted some seeds, and viola!


Lettuce and spinach. The lettuce plant I actually bought at Lowe's, but the rest of it came from seeds. I'm very excited about the spinach because starting today I can cut it and use it!


Potatoes (tall) and cucumbers. Oh. And carrots. There are baby carrots there, peaking out from underneath those huge leaves on the left.

Zucchini, which are starting to over crowd the spinach. In our defense, we didn't know that the leaves grew that big and next year will plan accordingly.