Our garden!

August 1, 2009--Wow, it's August already. I knew that Christmas was just around the corner, but this is ridiculous! Someone I know will be 59 soon and someone else will be 60! I can remember when I thought that was ancient! How did we get so old so fast?

Anyway--here are some photos of our vegetable garden (orto). We hope to get a rototiller soon with plans of having a much nicer garden next year.


If you look closely you will see the beginning of a jalapeno! Our friends from Oceanside sent us the seeds and we have four plants. The plants got a late start so I wasn't sure if we would even get one pepper!








This is from the 11th of July.

















And this one is from yesterday (31st of July)!! We probably have about 20 peppers now.




These are the first two carrots we have pulled. Actually, these are the only two carrots we've pulled!

We only planted a few zucchini plants because we are smarter than the average bears! I say that only because we don't need to go knocking on doors begging people to take our extra zucchini!























This is the first one we harvested.












We planted onions and garlic, too. Some of the garlic didn't look too good, but Larry says the onions are great. This is our first garlic.






















We also planted Juliet tomatoes with seeds that our friend Kathi gave us. We have about 8 plants, but these are the ones that are doing the best. This was taken 2 weeks ago.





















And these are the ones I picked yesterday!
























Our peach trees were not supposed to get peaches this year because we had some kind of cancer that made the leaves all shrivel up. After we sprayed the tree the new leaves were okay and we had about 12 peaches on each tree. These were the sweetest peaches I have ever tasted! I'm not kidding. They were the kind of peaches you would never have bought because they were so small, but your mouth actually tasted the sweetness long after you had finished the peach!




























We have 4 olive trees, but only one had olives this year. The tree only has about 20 olives on it, but it's a start! The first picture was taken a few weeks ago.


















This was taken today.




















We also planted strawberries, boysenberries, and raspberries. I imported the boysenberries and raspberries from England. We planted 3 of each, but only two of the boysenberries had fruit on them and none of the raspberries. Two of the berries were very yummy and the rest were not quite as good!




The strawberries are beginning to spread!




















Isn't this a colorful picture?










Now on to our giardino (flower garden). Here you will see our roses and the geraniums in pots on the ground.






















Aren't these yellow roses beautiful?











I hope that next year our gardenias will produce bigger and better flowers--not to mention more of them!






















I know, I know. You are probably thinking to yourself that our garden isn't different from any other garden, but there you are wrong! Our garden is an Italian garden, planted in Italian soil around our house in Italy!!

This has nothing to do with our garden--but look at this cool picture of a glo-worm! We saw it while walking back to our car Sunday night.