My Backyard Garden

I wanted to show you my little backyard garden. I am so glad that this house has some space at the backyard for me to plant some herbs. Not like in PA that I have to plant everything in a flower pot of containers. The backyard is quite bit but I still need some time to get it organize. So for the time being I just plant some flowers and herbs at a corner. The next season I will get Carlos to boil some planter boxes so I can plant vegetables. Here are some pictures on the progress of my little garden.

The little garden looks pretty bare when I first stared.

I planted some herbs.

Cilantro

Rosemary

Mint

Parsley

Thyme

Daun Kesum

Thai Basil

Lemongrass

Sage

Sweet Basil

Curry Plant - I have to plant this in a pot so I can bring it into the house during winter.

Strawberries

Meyer Lemon

After 3 months it bear some fruits

Some flowers to add colors to the little garden.

Peach Picking

Autumn is drawing near and it is time to pick some sweet local peaches. Diana and I went to Highland Orchard about 15 minutes drive from home. The day was cloudy but for me it was just perfect. We went really early to avoid the crowd and when we arrived we were the only one there. We had the whole farm to ourselves. One thing about fruit picking is you’ll feel like you’re a kid all over again. The feeling of seeing all those ripe fruits on the trees were awesome! They provide us with a box to put our peaches and it got filled up pretty fast and we had endless peaches as we picked (yes you can eat as much as you want while you pick. They are the juiciest peaches I've ever had. It was so juicy that you have to stand over the sink when devouring them. I found out that pick your own peaches were much cheaper then the supermarket peaches. I paid $1.99 a pound at the supermarket and over her I paid only $1.49.

After a couple of hours at the farm we picked around 15 pounds of peaches, with a dozen of apple cider donuts and a few slices of cakes it cost us less than $28.00. Next will be apple picking in November

We had the whole farm to ourselves!



mmmm let me try this first!

Wow, it's juicy!

Let me take another big bite.

Me as usual busy taking photos.

Wow, lots of peaches. Better start picking.

All the ripe and big ones are so high up on the trees.

Let see if I can reach that.

Yes, I got it.

mmmmm is it ripe yet?

Do you think I am to reach those fruits?

Yeap, I got it!

Are these good?

I think there is an insect bite on it.

Enough for the day.

Off we go.

Man, this is heavy!!

We made a quick stop at the raspberry farm but the fruits were too small for us to pick. So off we go.


Look at the size of the peach. There are huge.

Now I got to think of what to do with all those peaches. Maybe Peach Cobbler, Peach Pie, Peach butter?

Tomatoes for 2009

Our tomato plants are giving us a lot of fruits. With all the rains for the past one week it’s growing and ripens at record rates. Here are some of the pictures of what I picked today and also last week. Aren’t they beautiful!!

Picked on 08/03/09



These funny looking tomatoes are sweet and meaty. Really good in salad.

Picked on 07/26/09

Planting Season for 2009

This year Nancy and I decided to plant some tomato plants together. Some of the plants were doing well and some are not. There were a few plants that turn yellow with brown spots on the leaves and for one plant the fruits rotten before they were ready to be picked. Not sure why is this happening. I guess it might be the unsettling weather and temperature here in PA. Hopefully someone can enlighten me on how to treat the problem with the tomato plants.

Some of the plants leaves are turning yellow.

Can someone enlighten me on what type of tomato is this. This is the first time I see tomatoes with such a weird shape. Carlos and I think it looks like a person 'behind' ha ha...

See what I mean ;)

Some of the tomatoes are ready to be picked.



Here are some of the rotting tomatoes. I must find out what is wrong with it.


Not looking good at all.


Can't wait to try out these Heirloom tomatoes.


Beside tomatoes I too planted some herbs and a few other types of vegetables.

Eggplant

Parsley

Chives

Mint

Kaffir Lime given by S.C which she plant from seeds. See how well it is growing.

Rosemary given by S.C too.

Beautiful flowers from one of the plant. Can anyone guess what plant is this?

Here is another view of the flowers. I will be having a lot of seeds for the next season.

This year I planted some mix lettuces.

It's too crowded for them to grow properly. I should have plant them in a bigger pots.