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

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!