How Does Your Garden Grow

Every time I go out to the garden I mumble the nursery rhyme Mary, Mary, quite contrary.........
The garden is doing great. We've been eating squash (freezing some too), and cucumbers.
Today started the green bean freezing process. 1/3 of the patch yielded almost 4# of beans. All cleaned, snapped and vac packed and in the freezer. I have a large cucumber salad in the fridge waiting for dinner tonight.
Here's how the garden has jumped up in just 1 month.

Additions To The Family

A couple of weeks ago a man brought my husband a shoe box. Inside was a bird and the man had no idea what to do with it. Seems he found it out in his driveway. Hubby brings it home since he knows me and the kids are into doing "rescues". Lo and behold, this is what we found when the lid came off.

 Her name is Speckles and she's quite tame as you can see by her sitting on my finger.
Nothing would do, the kids decided she was lonely and needed a cage mate. So here is Budgie. He's not tame yet, but we are working on him.

I had never imagined we would have birds as pets, but what the heck, we've had just about everything else. I draw the line at snakes and spiders - ain't happening.

I'm Baaaaaaaacccccccccckkkkkkkkkkk!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Been a while. Real life intruded. Too much going on and not enough hours in the day.
Once Spring started Springing, all hands were on deck to get the garden ready, work on new fencing, just pretty much a good bit of work to clean up the winter mess.
Add in unexpected things going on and well, the blog was the last thing on my mind.
The garden is in - and doing great. I grew everything from seed except the peppers and 1 odd tomato and a basil plant. It's about 33x31. All new fencing. In it are heirloom Arkansas Traveler, Brandywine and Yellow Pear tomato - the odd ball is an heirloom Stripey I wanted to try.  I also have managed to save 3 Italian Grape cherry tomato plants that I grew from seed. They are in a huge bucket on the porch where I can baby them.
Yellow summer squash, 2 kinds of cukes, Okra, Sugar Snap peas,  3 kinds of bush beans, Dill, Parsley, Basil, and in another bed sunflowers.

Dwarf Orange Tree

Beans

The whole garden

 Plums - need to do some serious thinning

 Peaches