Our Summer Vegetable Garden...

My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to see things from the plant's point of view. 

~ H. Fred Ale

I'm still working on my green thumb, but there is so much truth to that quote, isn't there? This is the time of year we wish we could freeze our garden. We've hit the sweet spot and are harvesting zucchini, lettuce, tomatoes, and peppers...

Our lettuce did much better this year in the galvanized steel stock tank.

We gathered some sticks from our property, and tied with twine to make a little teepee trellis that we used for the peppers.

Tonight we used the peppers from the garden to make fajitas. It's kind of funny just how much pride we take in our home-grown produce. If you heard us, you would think we'd invented farming... ;)

And we're looking forward to the pumpkins growing... We only have a small area of pumpkins (below). But I dream of making a real, respectable, pumpkin patch one day. The ranch behind us beat us to it - they have a pumpkin/corn patch complete with scarecrows. It's taken us about a month to not flinch when we see the scarecrows out of the corner of our eyes. And our dogs have finally come to accept them as friendly guards instead of intruders...

The herbs are doing well, and the bees are busy!

This is the first year I've planted an area of wildflowers... and I'm hooked! 

Even though we planted hundreds of wildflowers seeds, I'm still surprised when they grow and bloom. It's like Christmas in the garden...

Did you plant a garden this year? What has been most successful? (For us, it's been zucchini, lettuce, tomatoes, and peppers. We did not get to enjoy many snow peas this year - but the rabbits did.)

Thank you for stopping by today friends!

Xo