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We ate like kings!

25 Jun 2010 by LeeNee

Well… like kings who grow their own veggies. ;)

Last night, while walking my father around my yard, explaining what things would need to be watered in the event of a heat wave, I reached –nonchalantly– into my veggie patch and –nonchalantly– pulled out that lovely zucchini. My dad was suitably impressed with its size and my magnificence in being able to grow it.

I tried to be… oh… nonchalant about it, as if it was an everyday activity around our house, but… who’m I kidding?! My dad reads this blog, so he knows I was practically squealing with joy yesterday when I saw it.

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What have we here?!

24 Jun 2010 by LeeNee

As one of the last garden-related things I wanted to take care of before we leave for our trip, I went out to tend to the veggie patch. Much to my surprise, magic has occured over the past two days…

Squeeeeeee! The little boogers have turned red!!

I know what we’ll be having with dinner!

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Rainy storms make pretty flowers

15 Jun 2010 by LeeNee

We’ve been having what the weathermen like to call “unstable” weather lately. If it’s not a heat wave, it’s powerful thunderstorms, or crushing humidity. On Sunday, we had all three — a weather trifecta!

The second downpour came while I was making dinner, so the boys dashed out to get pictures of the heavy rain, and the subsequent dewy garden photos.

Not only does the rain help pretty flowers grow, but the rain looks wonderful *ON* flowers!

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I’ve noticed a trend…

11 Jun 2010 by LeeNee

After a day-long rain on Wednesday, conditions were perfect to get the weeding done yesterday. And, as I worked on the flower beds in the front yard, I noticed something.

Almost every plant I have is either purple or blue, or blue-ish-purple, or purple-y-blue.

These Everlasting Summer hydrangeas were more pinkish last year. After spreading some 10-10-10 fertilizer on them in April, they’ve bloomed a lovely, breath-taking blue.

But, so has just about everything else in my garden!

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