Farm livin' is the life for me

 My sweet adorable husband was raised and born out in the country. Last year, while unemployed he had an opportunity to help our friends around their almond ranches. Needless to say, Den was in heaven. He loved driving around on the quad fixin' one thing after the other. It felt like home to him. It was bittersweet for him to see his family home everyday, just across the road. He was flooded with memories of working side by side with his Dad in the fields and tending their family garden. Last year, he helped put in a garden for our friends and they were so happy to have fresh vine ripe tomatoes right outside their back door.

This year, our friends offered to let us put in a garden and even expand! Den sat down and put together a list of all the things he wanted to plant. My oh my his list was long! We anxiously waited for this weird rainy season to end so we could get started on our garden. The finally arrived last Saturday, we set out to rent a rotor tiller, picked out tomatoes of all kinds and even some heirloom ones too, pepper plants and lots seed packets also. We've got big plans after all.


By Sunday evening the rows were all in and so far we have the tomato plants in. Hopefully, by next weekend the garden will be all done. I'd love to hear about your garden plans. What's your favorite vegetable to plant? Do you have a garden bed in the ground or a raised garden bed? Do you plant your vegetables in pots or wine barrels on your patio?

Here's a list of the things we hope to have planted by this coming weekend, which just happens to be my 28th anniversary to this wonderful man!

Tomatoes- Early Girl, Better Boy, Husky Cherry, Pink Ladyfinger Heirloom, Yellow Pear, Roma's, there's two more heirlooms but I forgot their names
Peppers- Green, Yellow, Red, Orange Bell Peppers, Jalapenos
Squashes- Yellow Crooked Neck, Italian Summer Squash
Green Beans
Black Eyed Peas (My favorite)
Okra (another favorite of mine)
Cucumbers
I need a drum roll for these babies- Pickling Cucumbers (all for Erik) 10 of them!
More to come if we have room! We just might have to double expand!

Can you guess what I will be canning this summer? Lot's and lot's of tomatoes and baby pickles! I think we have the fixin's for some great summer salads, fried green tomatoes, deep fried zucchini and okra. Summer can't get here fast enough for me!