Garden Treasure Hunting

I am in love.....with my garden! I feel like a little kid every time I walk through that gate. Its like a treasure hunt every time!

I found these beautiful gems shining at me on Sunday

I found this jackpot.....

buried under this ever growing "Monster"

As well as a few smaller jackpots

I spotted this dark beauty from a distant, and practically skipped the last few feet to my plot! 

What will be waiting for me to discover today?

I leave for a week and....

Picture Log: Nature Walks

Oh, the ideas!

One of the perks of working at a library:

When books are not circulating, we weed them. (Interesting that its a gardening term isn't it?) This just means deleting it from our system. But what to do with the book now? We have a company that we send the books to and they resell them. However, employees get to dig through and pick out the treasures first! This is my recent haul from a stack of crafting books (I had to refrain myself from taking the whole stack!)

My Eggplant!

On Monday, I was delighted to find this small treasure growing on my eggplant:

 

On Tuesday, I was thrilled to see how much it had grown!

 

 

Yesterday, I was over the moon to find this jem!

 

Isn't it beautiful?

My Garden Salad

Consisting of produce only grown in MY GARDEN!

Spinach, lettuce, beet leaves, radish, and peas. The flavor was AMAZING!

Up Close and Personal

I have been trying a different approach to watering, rather than just using the hose and soaking everything. I went to Home Depot and picked up a bright orange bucket and lid. I fill the bucket up and leave it to sit outside all day. The sun warms the water up and (according to the book I just read) kills some of the chemicals in the water. I found a little bucket (I think it used to be a cottage cheese bucket?) to scoop the water onto the plants. Each plant (or square) gets about 1 scoop, depending on how recently I watered or how hot it has been. This technique has gotten me down on a closer level with the plants, and I have to say, I am loving it! Just look at all the textures and color variations!