Gardening update!

The other day I was complaining and complaining about how it seemed my squash and zucchini plants just weren't doing much. Last year I remember my flowers just falling off and never making any vegetables! well I went out there and spotted a couple of zucchini's and just one squash. Today I went out there to check and I was able to pick a squash, a zucchini, and a banana pepper!! It's pretty weird that it's almost June and my garden is just now producing. I guess I need to plant it a little earlier here in Mississippi since the weather is so hot and humid!

you may be thinking, who the heck is this going to feed?!! Well Last spring was my first time to plant a garden and I was determined to make it work. Some things made, some things didn't. I was given many seeds for gifts for a fall garden and so I planted carrots, radish, lettuce, and broccoli. None of them made.. It was kind of upsetting. When Justin and his grandpa tilled my garden for the spring this year, I went out and found all of these baby carrots all over my dirt/soil! Aren't they precious? I wish Mississippi weather would make up it's mind and allow me to have a fall garden that doesn't exist of turnip greens! I dislike turnip greens/kale/mustard greens.. whatever. I don't like greens!

This is a picture of my small garden before I left for my week long trip to my grandma's and to Texas for a wedding. It was nice and moist and I was ready for some blooms!

This is a picture of my garden when I came back! My man took good care of my little "ranch" while I was away! Thanks hubs! I'm one of those people who wish to live on a bunch of land with lots of space to garden and other things. I want to live like the Pioneer Woman one day! Love me some Ree Drummond!

zucchini, straightneck squash, banana pepper

These are my three little vegetables that I was able to pick today! Hooray!!! When I picked this zucchini today, I saw about 10 more mini ones. We will be having zucchini for a side dish here soon! I love fresh vegetables and I'm quite excited to find many different dishes I can use my home grown vegetables in!

And I'm leaving y'all with this beautiful geranium that is in my front flower bed!

Maybe one day my green thumb will strengthen like mom Mom's!
happy gardening,
Lauren

Failing squash and zucchini plants...

Hey folks!
It's been so long since I've been on here it feels like. Well, actually.. I check others' posts nearly everyday, but I have no clue why I haven't just written something on my own blog! Well, actually I do know why.. but that's besides the point! I'll have to do some major updating with all of the things that have been going on!

For this post, I will stick to my garden! I remember last year was my first gardening experience and some strange things happened to say the least! I planted late and so my harvest wasn't as large as I would have liked it to be. My bell peppers didn't make until October! I left the plant in the garden because they had not produced anything by the end of the summer. I didn't want the plant (and money) to be a waste, so I left it up and it produced in October! I have found out that bell peppers like cool weather instead of the incredibly hot Mississippi summers. Also, my squash last year never made. My plants would bloom and then the flower would fall off before it ever was able to make anything. I couldn't find out what the heck was wrong with it. They never produced any squash. Me being me, I tried again this year and the same thing is happening! The leaves are way too large and they are covering up the flowers and the flowers aren't getting enough sun.

I mentioned this issue to one of my bosses at work and she explained that maybe they aren't getting enough sun and the flower isn't getting dry enough to perk out and open up for the bees to pollinate them. This makes total sense! I went out and worked in my garden for a small amount of time today before work. Dug up some weeds and hoed it up to stir the dirt. I realized how extra large the leaves are on the plants and the flowers are down in the bottom. THE LEAVES ARE COVERING UP MY FLOWERS AND PREVENTING THEM FROM GETTING ENOUGH SUN! This has got to be the problem. So to my dear gardening friends, what do I do? I love squash and zucchini and would really like a harvest this year! Pretty please?

On a side note, I planted banana peppers, bell peppers, jalapeno peppers, cucumber, speckled butter beans, zucchini, and squash. All of my other plants are doing well! Especially my cucumber! They did great last year! (they don't have so many leaves on them and the flowers are out in the open since they vine!)

This is my little garden!

Do you see those extra large leafs right there? I need help.... or my zucchini and squash need help!

a wannabe green thumb,
Lauren

PS. I am going to try and get back in the swing of updatinggg!! Much love for now!