I swear this is not a gardening blog...

...although its beginning to look like one since that's all I blog about lately.  There are a lot of other topics I consider writing about but I keep coming back to the garden because I'm a tad bit obsessed with its success right now.  As you can tell from older posts, things have progressed quite nicely.  I'm a little worried about whats going to happen to it when I go to Ireland this summer.  Oh yes, I'm going to Ireland.  That might be another interesting topic to blog about but for now I'll just post some more garden pics:

Cucumbers

Full on garden craziness

Crazy Zucchini Plant 2012

First Zucchini 2012

Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary, How does your garden grow?

I like to rock the Mary Janes and bonnet when gardening

That's right!  My gardening skills are out of control.  Internet access helps quite a bit.  This week I learned about ants and okra from the Aggies.  Ants like Okra and will hurt the plants.  I tried some organic ant killer so I'll have to wait an see if that works.  I've read that ants carry aphids around with them so I need to purchase some ladybugs (they can eat up to 1000 aphids a day!)

Anyway, I actually do have a green thumb!  You can see what a difference a couple of weeks make:  My garden has gone from this to THIS:

Giant Squash Plant - The Squashes love my garden box

The cucumber climb on anything - Lots of flowers right now

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Obviously the squash plant dominates!

Yesterday I bought a Wok...

I figured since my garden is taking off so well, I'm going to need it to cook all my delicious veggies. I got a 20% off coupon from Bed, Bath and Beyond to use on one item so this is what I picked:

The Awesome Wok

Of course I had to try it out immediately. I've had Jessica Seinfeld's book, Double Delicious for a while now but I've yet to cook out of it.  I think the book is geared more towards people with kids since a lot of it is about sneaking healthy stuff - like cauliflower puree - into your recipes. I decided to try the Orange Beef.

Orange Beef with Carrots and Broccoli

I have to say, although it didn't look as lovely as the picture above, it was pretty tasty.  The recipe is fairly healthy - it calls for low sodium soy sauce, fresh ginger and fresh OJ.  What really makes it good is the chili paste.  I love spicy food!





And now a picture of Beans, just because I love him so much.

Beans MF