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For the last 20 years or so, my husband and I have been planting a vegetable garden every year.  I'm not so sure the work is equitably split; we both believe we do the lion's share of the work.  I definitely spend more time in the garden, while he does the really heavy difficult things such as till.    We have certain staples that we always plant, like tomatoes and green beans, and we like to try some different and unusual vegetables every year.  Over the years, we have planted purple string beans, various colored carrots (red, purple, yellow and white along with the usual orange) white cucumbers, yellow tomatoes, and speckled watermelon.  We've planted carrots shaped like pingpong balls, and zuchini shaped like pool balls.  We've planted some vegetables that we had not seen in the grocery store before (but they seem to make it to the produce section a couple of years after we try them). Every year, our garden seems to get larger.  We started with a small plot about 10` x 15` about 20 years ago.  Our garden this year must be about 30` x 60` but I can't be sure, I haven't actually measured it.  Although we've been gardening for years, we don't consider ourselves experts at all.  Some  of the vegetables we have planted have done  really well, and others not so good.  We tend to keep planting the successful ones again in following years, and save room for new experiments.  But isn't it all just one great big experiment, really?

Garden Update 6-14-2012
We have been having just about perfect weather lately!  I haven't gotten to spend as much time in the garden as I like, though, been putting in more hours for work.  My sweet potatoes came about 2 weeks ago, I got them in and they are surviving, but ...

garden update 5-19-2012
It's another beautiful day, it's supposed to get up to 80* here today!  I plan to get out and do what I can before it gets that hot.  I have pots and hanging planters to get done today.I've spent the last couple days wrestling with soaker hoses, I've...

Garden Update
It is SUCH a beautiful day today!  I plan to take advantage of it...since my last update, I finished planting the vegetable garden, except for the sweet potatoes, which are ordered.  So, this year we are growing:green beans, peas, snow peas, beets, c...

Long time, no blog!
Geez, it's been SO LONG since I last visited this site.  I'm not sure what happened, life just got busy, lost my password, etc. Anyway, I missed blogging about my garden, so here I am!  The season is pretty much just getting started here.  We are hav...

Garden update June 23, 2009
  It's hard to believe it's been nearly a month since my last blog.  We have been so busy, time is just flying by. So much for my intention to blog weekly.... We've had birthday celebrations, graduation parties, and lots of get-togethers of one so...