Green buttons wrapped tight
Rays of sunshine tucked inside
just waiting to burst
The sunflowers are getting ready to brighten the yard.
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Bright stars on the ground
Petals open, just one day
Quickly! Make a wish
Make a wish on this big star!
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After seven weeks of waiting, we picked our first harvest of zucchini. Two plants produced these beauties and more are on the way! I sliced one up and put it my dinner salad. There is nothing quite as tasty as homegrown zucchini – so sweet and juicy!
Zucchini waiting to be picked!
The first harvest! Next stop: The kitchen.
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c.b. 2012
oh, yummy! I love zucchini!! Enjoy the fruits (and vegetables) of your labors.
Those zucchini made my salad delicious!
We’ve got three more that will be ready to pick in a couple days.
A very satisfying end to your labours!
I’m sure it is! I garden in Zone 2, so we are very limited here as well, but for different reasons altogether. It makes for some interesting adventures, that’s for sure!
yum.
fresh green or yellow beans from the garden are my favourite!
I think you took all my growing power. None of my zucchini or yellow squash has done anything this year. The whole garden is struggling. Glad to see you are doing so well.
I think you’re soil is just worn out. You grew incredible zucchini last year, so your soil is probably depleted. Maybe some good compost or manure would give it a little boost.
This year I am really into photos like the one of your sunflower, looking down into the center of the plant, creating a flower mandala. This is a great one!
Thanks!
I’m trying to take shots each day as it grows and starts to open. Its amazing to watch the transition unfold. Today, I saw little yellow petals developing inside. They are going to open soon and I’m going to try and capture the moment at the same angle.
So exciting when things grow and come to life before your eyes – especially when you get to eat them too!!
We’ve got carrots and beans growing like crazy, so I’m hoping to have a salad filled with garden veggies in the next week or two. It’s so much fun!
You’re lucky to have such nice-looking zucchini already! Here, way up north, we’re still getting the odd night of frost, so very few folk have actually planted anything yet, let alone has anything to harvest! Enjoy your dinner!
We have to start early in the southwest! We hit 112 degrees yesterday, so instead of cold we have to fight the extreme heat. My little babies get watered twice a day.
C.B., this looks delicious! You are so far ahead of us. We have just barely planted our zucchini, and here you are enjoying the vegetable! Lovely post.
Planting in early April is usually considered late by Arizona standards, (early March is ideal), so we are very lucky that the garden bloomed the way it did. Some of the second batch seedlings didn’t make it, but the first round are still going strong.
There is nothing like growing your own fruit and veggies!
They really do taste better – I don’t know if its because they’re not mass produced or if its just the joy of doing it yourself.
You have zucchini already!?!? What is wrong with my plants. Drat.
Summer comes pretty early here – yours will come in good time.
Marvellous! We live in an apartment, and my husband — who’s very much into gardening — missed that so much so now he’s gotten himself a plot in the community garden! Will be fun …
How fun!
You’ll have to post pics!
I agree, zucchini are great. I dare say we’ve only begun to plant in my neck of the woods. I do sometimes wish we had a longer growing season. Love the photos!
By July or early August you’ll have a grand harvest!
Joy energy!
we just readied the garden for planting! zucchini inspiration!
Fun!
We just picked 2 huge zucchini today! I’ll be posting about them soon.
Yum. Those squash look lovely!
We ate some tonight for dinner and they were delicious!!
Your zucchini are beautiful! How exciting to finally enjoy the first fruits of your labor!
Thanks!
Wait until you see the ones we picked this week. They are HUGE!
YEA!!!!!
The garden is always an adventure. I always love going out there to see what’s changed since the day before.
Did you read the Writer Unboxed posting? I reposted it on FB yesterday-about gardens in the neighborhood, and how it represents letting go and impermanence. Such change, and on a daily basis! Seasons-growing, dying, fallow, replanting. The universe really does recreate itself in every living (and even nonliving) thing. I miss growing things, taking care of the garden, harvesting, talking to the plants, cooking the goodies with love . . .
Not yet, but I will be heading over there!
I think your new apartment needs a patio garden.