Mom's Garden

This summer I have spent a lot of time with my mom at her house. My mom's garden takes a lot of her time but is so wonderful. I brought my camera with me the other day and took some pictures of her garden, her flowers and her orchard. I'd like to share a few with you all. The camera cannot capture all the beauty and color that these places hold for me, but it does hold memories for me. So, enjoy...

Here are some yellow water melons. They are very delicious and someday when I have my own place, I too will be planting and harvesting these melons.

Here's mom picking cucumbers. Behind her are the broccoli plants.

Tomatoes not yet red...well there is one in the very back that is pink...don't know if you can see it.

This is a new melon that Mom has never tried before. I don't know it's name but if you look closely at it, it looks like an ugly winter squash. The outside of the melon is very bumpy and lumpy.

Here is a spotted watermelon. Kind of cool huh?! The leaves of the watermelon are also spotted...green with yellow spots.

Above are some peppers...they start off yellow and then turn red.

Here's one of the giant pumpkins that she is growing for my husband. She's very worried that it won't get as big as it needs to before the frost finds it this fall. Because our spring lasted so long the plant didn't grow very fast for the first couple of months.

Here's another view of the garden. Starting right in front and left by the shovel you will see beets, then carrots. If you look carefully behind the carrots are some re bar posts...below them are peas...Mom started a second batch of them a few weeks ago. Behind the peas are onions and then you can't see the melons. After melons are beans then the cucumbers and then corn. The corn cuts the garden in half but the corn is the last thing you see in this photo. There are more beets, carrots, potatoes, peppers, tomatoes, melons, and raspberries behind the corn.

I wanted to show you how large her onions are...but I forgot to put something in the picture to show the comparison. If you use your imagination, put your hand out there to grab one and the bulb of the onion will be almost as large as your hand. Hope you've enjoyed the tour of most of my mom's garden.