Get growing with Farmer Fred

Farmer Fred and Harvesting Harriet

Farmer Fred harvesting all two rows of carrots.

What's Up Dock?

The Brussels sprouts are starting to knot up.

Each week the ball of the cabbage is getting bigger and bigger. The kids just love to run out and see all the growth on all the vegetables.

Our luscious garden has been harvested and we are almost bare again. We are getting our summer crop in.

Here I am weeding and keeping things looking picture perfect!

Scott is working his magic and minutes away from planting eggplant and soy beans.

Our little zucchini

I am loving the flowers on the pomegranate tree...soon to be loaded with them

While the fenced garden is bare, the back has shot up which seems like over night. Our fenced garden started off as the winter garden and the back was formed more in the summer months. We are now harvesting winter and replanting summer. Its a great feeling to see all the hard work pay off.

Our first flowered stock of corn. Scott and I walk out to the garden first thing when we arrive in Tracy. All these plants are like our babies and to see them grow....well... its exciting!

Scott picked our first zucchini. We will be having sauteed zucchini tonight!

I just had to capture the size of those cabbage leafs. It felt like a 10 lb head of cabbage!

Our Brussels sprouts are enormous. But I know that is nothing yet. Brussels sprout grow on the stock of the plant, so we have many inches to go. Well see if we can see Lydia and Sarah when its all said and done.

Our Yukon Gold and Red Potatoes are flowering. Scott looked up and read that we can harvest them anytime after 3 weeks from the time they flower.

6 days went by and now we are seeing zucchinis popping up everywhere.

Corn has popped up

The heat was starting to burn the leaves of the cabbage, so harvesting was the answer. On one of the cabbages it split open, it grew so big.

My little Vana White is proud to demonstrate how well the cabbages grew.

Gardening takes work. As Farmer Fred and Harvesting Harriet work, its McKenzie's job to babysit Porter. I couldn't have asked for a better first daughter than McKenzie. She loves her brother.

Farmer Fred went to Home Depot and purchased potting containers to start 48 eggplant plants, 15 bell peppers plants and 42 tomato plants.

I had to put this picture on the blog....I told Scott and Porter that I was going to take a picture. So Porter quickly turns his head and says.....CHEESE......

Here Scott is explaining to the girls that we need to start those plants in containers so that they can grow bug free. We have been having trouble growing eggplants and bell peppers because of the bugs and the lack of heat. Wow... I cant believe I said lack of heat in June.