Saturday D played golf all day with his uncle, while us 3 went shopping for some vegetable plants for the garden. Of course, we had to make a stop at Hob Lob...how could we not?! We found some great deals in their clearance section...I spent a total of 20 bucks! Score! My brother did pretty good for being there over an hour...better than I thought he would do!
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| Outdoor Mat...$7 bucks |
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| Lantern/Vase...$11 (originally $30) |
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| Scrapbook paper...not on sale, but very cute! I will probably use it on some coasters in the future! ;) |
Saturday night we decided to head to the races, which were about 40 minutes from our {small} town. Ashley hadn't ever been, I had only been once (not counting the times in high school, but I didn't really go to watch the races!), and Brett and D used to race back in the day. Plus D's dad builds performance engines for Sprint Cars and what not, so we were also supporting our drivers/motors we had on the track!
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| Me and Ashley before the races |
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| at the races |
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| Brett and Ashely |
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| D and Brett watching the races (didn't want their picture taken!) |
Sunday they headed home early, and we relaxed for awhile. In the afternoon we got to work on our garden. Yeah, it may sound like we're a little behind, but it has been freezing at night randomly, so I'm kind of glad we got a late start. We should be good to go now though (keeping my fingers crossed)! It was full of weeds, but luckily my Dad and D tilled it last fall, so it wasn't hard to pull all of those nasty weeds out properly!
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| Look, no more weeds! |
We then worked the dirt around, and got to planting. We planted: 4 Tomato Plants (3 of which are heirloom), 2 Jalapeno plants, 1 Sweet Crimson Watermelon plant, 1 Zucchini plant, and 3 Cucumber plants. We also planted some 1 row of Carrots, 1 row of radishes, 1 row of Okra, and started some Marigold seeds in some little pods to transplant around the edges. D read somewhere that Marigolds keep bugs away, so we thought we'd give it a try. We still would like to find some Red Bell Pepper plants, those are my fav's out of Bell Peppers.
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| 4 tomato plants |
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| 2 Jalapeno Plants |
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| 3 Cucumber Plants (2 bunched together) |
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| 1 Zucchini Plant |
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| 1 Crimson Sweet Watermelon Plant |
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| The whole garden view...we also planted some Carrots, Okra, and Radishes We still want to find some Red Peppers to plant by the Jalapenos. I know it doesn't look like much now, but just give it some time!! ;) |
A couple years ago we planted a smaller garden when we lived in the {big} city, but we didn't can anything. We pretty much just froze what we didn't use right away. That was nice too, but this time I would like to can some Salsa, maybe pickle some Okra, and even give Dill Pickles a try! I can't wait to see all of the fresh veggies that come from our own backyard!! Stay tuned!
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| Bernie hangin' out! |
What about you, do you have a garden? If so, what is your favorite thing to do/make with your fresh veggies?
