Gardening - the badass way.

Remember that bucket of plants I posted when I was starting my garden? If not you can refresh your memory here.

Now my garden looks like this:

tomato plants

tomato, squash, zucchini, okra, peppers, strawberries, dill, garlic, chives, onion

The cucumbers like to climb.  Those flowers will hopefully turn into delicious cucumbers!

Crazy Squash Plant 2012??

Notice the lack of beets.  In case you didn't know about my disdain for beets you can check that out here. 
Farmers market, here I come!

Erath Pinot Noir

I love a good wine that's also a good value.

Check out this post from D Magazine on Erath Pinot Noir.  And then go get yourself a bottle (or two) and have your own wine tasting.  I think this will definitely be on my weekend agenda!

Cheers!

Gardening and Good Friday

Did you know that you are supposed to have your garden planted by Good Friday?  I got this bit of information from my 80 year old grandmother who was being pestered by my 81 year old grandfather to get all her planting done.  After a bit of research, I found out planting potatoes on Good Friday is supposed to be good luck.  I'm trying to steer clear of potatoes right now so I opted to go the vegetable route.  The hubs took me to Calloways where we purchased the following:

 

Tomatoes, Bell Pepper, Strawberries, Okra, Hot Pepper, Squash, Zucchini, Cantaloupe, and Cucumber

In addition to my goodies above, we bought some seeds - corn, dill, basil, chive, carrot and garlic bulbs.  I'm pretty ambitious this year as you can tell.  Last year I had only mild success, mainly from my peppers and zucchini.  After I yelled at it, my zucchini plant went wild producing giant zucchini.  I put it in everything - salads, pasta sauce, pizza - see my post here for more about that.

Crazy Zucchini Plant 2011

Anywho, I pretty much consider myself a professional gardener at this point.  I did have to do a quick google search ("what grows next to each other?") to come up with a layout.  I found THIS helpful site about companion planting.

I also did a search about square foot gardening and decided to give that a go this year.

I don't have a good pic of my garden just yet.  One of my bell pepper plants already has a tiny pepper on it.  I'm hoping this summer is not as hot as last year so I can get some good product.  The cucumber, squash and melon all seem to really love the rain we just got.  More updates to come!  

P.S.  I'm thinking of setting up a roadside stand in front of my house if this thing is successful (which I'm sure it will be)

Beckham's Burger King Commerical

I wouldn't let a little thing like getting married ruin my obsession love for David Beckham.  Why should I?  I'm loving the new BK commercial.  This might actually entice me to eat there.

 

Also thanks to my friend, Lauren, for sharing this story regarding the recent scandal over David's H&M ads.  I truly believe those who can't appreciate this man's fine looking physique are simply jealous haters.  Stop being jealous and start working out!