Connected Change

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."
~Margaret Mead

About The Garden

I was so proud of this garden when we put it in only 2 months ago. I now look at it and realize we are woefully under developed. There are also some concerns about the size of our plants and produce. Our harvest has been pretty meager as well. Fortunately there are between 2 and 3 growing seasons in this part of the world. We are now planning our fall garden which will include many frost resistant vegetables that should produce through the winter. Things like cabbage, collards, carrots, and potatoes. Our fall garden will be made up mostly of Pinto beans, corn, winter squash, red potatoes, carrots, lettuce, onions, and tomatoes that we will protect with plastic when the frosts come.

We have had some successes with our summer garden. We had several bugs and some diseases that invaded us and killed some plants. We had the blight affect our tomatoes to the extent that we thought we might lose the crop. Rachel finally determined that tea tree oil might kill the blight and in fact it did. We thought that was a major victory considering our 80 year old neighbor who has had gardens every year since the forties said "once the blight always the blight". Rachel mixed 1t tea tree oil, .25t oregano oil into a gallon of water and used as a foliar spray. We also noticed the bugs diminished greatly.

Until next time.
Chris

The Rest of Us!

Here is our Millie. She's on the dock eating mashed potatoes, looking so happy. She is SO MUCH FUN!! She's the humor of our family. When we are down or need a good laugh, Millie's always there.
Here's Golden in all his AWESOMENESS, as Dean says. Just being goofy! We sure LOVE him. Without him...we may NEVER meet new people. Of course, Chris or Daddy, as we call him around here. Working hard on the garden. This is what he looks like pretty much every morning now. SO MANLY!! Here is the most recent picture of Pratt. Wish I had a better one...but don't. He's DEFINITELY our most energetic, always on the go...LOVER boy! He's ADORED being outside so much and being able to swim when ever he wants.

That's all of us!! I am hoping to be able to post again soon. I would like to share our experience with some of the things we've been doing for our garden. We thought we had the blight for awhile. We've also had to deal with quite a few cucumber beetles and squash bugs. I'll fill you in on how we've been treating everything in an organic way.

Until then.

Rachel