My Old Garden.....

When we lived in "the orange tree house" in Mesa, we started our first garden. As you can see, it's not in a box like my current garden, but we sowed the seeds in rows in fertilized natural and native soil. We have great family memories working in this garden and have enjoyed many bounteous harvests of everything from peas to eggplants.

Swiss Chard

Spinach and Peas

Tomatoes and Thyme

Onions (and spinach behind them)

Radishes

Italian Flat Leaf Parsley

Sweet Basil

Cabbage

The fruit trees were there when we moved in and we LOVED having them.

Loads of lemons

We had two very large Arizona Sweets Orange trees. We ate and juiced all that we could, then donated the rest to friends, family and the assisted living center down the street.

There was also a beautiful mandarine orange tree in the back next to our vegetable garden. It produced heavily every other year.

Jeff built a fort in the tree for the girls, and they loved to sit up there and eat oranges!

Aloe Vera... always is nice to have on hand.

I haven't been great at keeping up with all the garden details on this blog.... but here are some current pictures. We are now enjoying tomatoes, bell peppers, jalapenos, zucchini, some carrots and onions and fresh herbs like thyme, oregano, mint, and parsley. Hopefully the corn and beans will be ready soon!


There is nothing like fresh garden tomatoes.


The corn is coming along.

Companion planting with corn and beans. The pole beans climbed right up the cornstalk. I didn't even have to guide it.

Note: We got a late start on the garden this year, because we were going to re-landscape the back yard... and I was waiting for that before planting. We eventually decided to go ahead and plant and we re-landscape at a later date.

Peaches and Apricots

Ora Blanca

Corn and Emerite Pole Beans

Bells: producing again

Our best strawberry crop yet....

Companion planting: Stawberries and onions