Garden Inside and Out! 2025

Well folks it's been a little while. Life tends to keep me busy.

Interesting this season in my life with my garden is my off season. Last summer I grew so much and canned. Since it is  just Tim and myself. We decided not to grow as much this year. Not gonna lie, it's hard going to the nursery and only buying a little. I usually just load up on tomatoes and green peppers. I crammed then in any possible place.

Well, not this year. I had a plan. 

I started with what to grow in my hoop house. Some seeds took off and others didn't. It's the luck of the draw. I am still new at this hoop house growing thing. 

Come and see what is growing inside of my hoop house...

Here is my green beans. They really took off this year. We have been eating fresh green beans and I finally canned some too.

My cabbage is almost ready to harvest. 

We have been eating tomatoes as well. I just got my outside tomatoes planted a month later than I normally plant. It's been a colder season than last year. So I did delay planting them outside. So glad that my tomatoes inside the hoop house are producing. Keeping my fingers crossed and lots of prayers that the ones outside have time to grow and produce.

Some of my bigger tomato plants.

I have been getting some cuttings off of my kale plants already.

I have several bags in the freezer. I even have a plant from last season.

Another exciting one is my cauliflower is doing great!

To my luck they all aren't gonna be ready at the same time. It's been delicious in stir-fries.

I have also some broccoli.

This year my peppers are doing great! 

I decided to plant them closer together this year. Last year I planted them 4 in one pot. This year I planted them more like 5-6 in a pot. They are friendly little guys and they like to touch each other. 

I have started to harvest a few. Yum!

Now lets move to the outside garden area. This area I haven't gave much attention to. I focused more on the inside stuff. Plus the weather here has been a colder. 

Outside garden area....

Tim planted all the potatoes for me this year. He had to clean out the beds and relay mulch down. It took him several hours to achieve the task. I was so thankful. My plate was full and I wasn't able to get the bed ready or even help him with the planting. But everything is looking good and growing.

Another project was getting our asparagus moved. And one again we were late in the season for moving the asparagus. It just had to get done. So in two of our beds we moved them from one side of the garden area to the other. Praying this works out in our favor. We will know next season. The last bed they were in had some much weeds that you couldn't get anything harvested from them. With them being moved it will be more in a controlled area.

Another move we did was move my peony bush.

I am so glad I did. This is the first year that it is this big and I have buds on it.

This plant is 3 years old and has never got very big nor produced and flowers.

Now we wait for them to open.

Got the tomatoes planted. They are small but mighty.

We have a couple of cooler days ahead but I got them in the ground with 2 days of upper 80 degree weather. As I type this I was thinking we have usually mowed our lawn a couple of times before the tomato plants go in the ground. We didn't mow until a month after they were in the ground. So much cooler this season.

The peppers are planted in a new bed this time. 

Let's talk sweet potato plants.

I finally got them the beginning of June. We had some cold days and cold rain. The nursery even said they would wait to plant them too. The plants are doing great.

The blueberries are looking a little sad. I am having the darnest time growing them.

 At some point I use to have around 15 plants. I am now down to 3 plants.

We are hoping to get some more next spring. 

I did double the amount for my peas this year. They are just starting to come up through the soil. 

The green beans sprouted pretty quick. I think I over estimated how much I planted. If they all grow and produce green beans I will have a extreme amount this year.

All my herbs are doing great. It's time to cut some and put in the dehydrator.

Gonna get them shelves restocked.

We have been having once a month family get togethers. We have been loving this season with our adult children and grand-children.

Thank you for coming along our journey.

Pizza, Bowling and Games with the Grandkids!!

Tim and I got another day filled with grandkids!!

This time our grandson helped to transport some of the kids to our fun activities.

It's hard to believe that I have several grandkids that can drive now. Time is going by too quickly.

Tim and I took the kids to Pizza Ranch. Thought they could get whatever they wanted and as much as they wanted. Dessert included!

(Tim, EmilyMae, Jacob W, Tristen, Liam, Isabella, Layla and Krystal)

After we ate we went to the entertainment center.

Bowling was first up.

(Layla, EmilyMae, Isabella, Tim)

There are some good bowlers in this group. I was impressed.

Some needed help in the beginning but soon was doing a great job on their own.

Not mentioning anything about 4-5 bowling balls in one lane. Oops!

Laughter and funny stories are what memories of made of.

This young man is a hard worker. So proud of him!!

Next we headed off to play unlimited games.

EmilyMae and Isabella

Tristen and Liam

This dancing thing Layla had it down. It was hard. She had to finish for me.

Jacob W

Tim

Tim and I had such a wonderful full day with the grandkids. We also played several rounds of laser tag.

Hanging out with of them today was so wonderful. They all are uniquely their own person and bring such joy to me. We are blessed beyond measure.

~ Grandchildren are the greatest gifts your heart will ever know ~

 

Chuck E cheese with the granddaughters

For Christmas this year we aren't buying gifts as I have mentioned in previous post. Instead we are making memories with our family.

So we went and picked up our 3 granddaughters and took them to

Chuck E Cheese

Our morning started out will a little snow and much colder.

This wasn't gonna stop us from picking them up.

A little dancing while we waited for our pizza to be ready.

Grandpa even joined the girls.

Grandma and Kelsie

She is smart and beautiful! She is so capable and independent.

Grandma and Makenzie

Not only is she beautiful and smart. She is so helpful and remembers everything.

Pizza Party!!!

Time for the games. Let's play!!

Kylie

This beautiful girl is full of energy and is so smart. She definitely knows what she wants and is very caring.

Hi Kelsie!!

Makenzie

Kylie

Kelsie

The girls had so much fun and so did we.

It's been so long since I have been to Chuck E Cheese. It's definitely not like how it use to be when I was younger. 

We weren't ready to take them home yet. We wanted to get them some ice cream so we went to McDonalds that had a playplace.

After they ate their ice cream they played.

We enjoyed our time with them and look forward to our next adventure with these beautiful girls.

Train up a child in the way he should go:

And when he is old, 

He will not depart from it.

Proverbs 22:6

 

Christmas morning!!

Merry Christmas from our house to yours!!!

Our tradition for several years is to eat breakfast and drink our coffee for starters.

Then we head off to the movie Theatre. This year we watched Aquaman 2. We also decided not buy gifts this year. We would rather spend time doing something together. Going to the movies was one of them.

When we got home we took a walk to check on our cows.

Couldn't see them so Tim walked over towards the hill.

They were excited to see him. They are doing good. 

So glad we got a ton of rain. It's filling up our creek.

Weather is starting to get cold.

No snow for Christmas!!

*** I know these post are going out late. Life has been busy. Taking care of my animals. Getting things ready for the extreme weather we are to get. Still processing food from this summer's harvest. 

Thank you and may God Bless you for the New Year!!