My Garden

My garden this year has done fabulous!!  It only took three years ;-).  

My beets and cucumbers

(I can't keep up with that nasty Bermuda grass!)

The "chicken garden" in the front - all the veggies the chickens like to eat,

 but I don't -ha! (kale, swiss chard, and green beans)

Onions in the middle (the carrots have been picked already)

and corn in the back

the lime tree in front

tomatoes in back

there are peppers there too 

but hard to distinguish in front of the tomatoes

strawberries

they are my experiment in the desert

the leaves are a bit yellow - iron deficiency

but they should look better in a couple weeks

if they survive the heat!

my citrus trees

grapefruit (2), orange, and clementine

peach (the "half" tree), apple, plum and apricot

the yellow one way in the back is a pomegranate

(it has iron deficiency too - but should look better soon)

the apple tree before I picked it this week

my grapes 

sweet potatoes and garlic

(all the "green" you see in between is dill!

I let the last batch go to seed to collect the seeds

for herbal remedies and boy did it go to seed!)

my pumpkins, butternut squash and broccoli

(also going to seed - I use non-hybrid seeds and 

then collect them for next year)

There is a watermelon too, but forgot to get a picture of  that - oops!

So far my garden has produced:

5 qts apple sauce

(+1 apple pie ;-)

15 qts tomatoes

4 qts grape juice

7 qts pickles

4 qts tomato salsa

6 batches green salsa (I freeze that)

10 pints carrots

10 pints beets

5 pumpkins

2 butternut squash

YUM!!!