Garden Time

Every time of year is beautiful in its own way and is designed by God for a specific purpose.  Late spring and early summer is an especially exciting time with the garden.  It is wonderful to see God rewarding the fruit of our labors and the promise of a fruitful harvest.

Our herb garden with a few flowers thrown in:)

Beautiful before the Japanese Beetles attacked!

Hopefully in just a couple more weeks we’ll be having blueberry smoothies, blueberry pancakes, blueberry cereal, etc.

The fig tree is doing great!

The unconquered zinnia.

If you plant them once, they will come back year after year, more and more.  Our row of tomatoes has been almost taken over by them!

The bee’s soda fountain.  During these hot summer days, it is usually quite busy.

Here comes a cucumber!

We have found lettuce easy to grow, bountiful, and delicious.  It is lasting quite a while as well.

Here comes the squash!

Beans are also very easy to grow.  Here are some regular green beans…

…Burgundy beans…

…snow peas.

Yum-yum!

We got 20 new chickens a month or two ago.  They are waiting for their fence to be built.

Our egg suppliers.

“Only a face a mother could love!” ~Papa

Our bees are doing great as well.  A few months ago, the hive naturally split and we had a swarm on our hands.  Daddy was able to catch it and put the bees in a second hive.

Our first hive.

We praise the Lord for all His blessings!