Summer Time!

Where have I been? Yes, I've been Missing in Action for a while.

I've been doing Focus T25 workouts! They're every day for 25 minutes!  Early on, I woke up at 5 and did the workouts in the morning, but as it got warmer, I just want to stay in bed longer.  Isn't that how it is?  I finished my first 10 weeks and now I'm into my second week of doing the exercises again.  They're still harder, but it seems like now I don't have to do the exercises that the modifier does. This workout series is definitely worth it!

The garden is going great! I haven't done much with it, just weeded it. Here in southern Oklahoma, we've had quite a bit of rain, so we haven't had to drag around the water hose like we normally do. The tomatoes did wonderful but the cucumbers didn't. Blue birds keep eating my blackberries but I was able to make some ice cream with the blackberries. Jessi and I eat some blackberries and strawberries as we pick them. We can't help it!

It's Spring!

I've got a few seeds started.  I'm probably late on doing that but summertime here is a really long time.  I have cucumbers, brussels sprouts, zinnias, ranunculus and sweet peas.

I haven't planted my peanuts yet, but I have cabbage and strawberries planted.  I found my Celebrity tomatoes from Guthrie Greenhouses.  Celebrity tomatoes grow really well in Oklahoma.  I don't have much luck with Big Boy and Early Girl.  I also got two Brandywine tomato plants.  I'll get some cherry tomatoes to put with the rest of the tomatoes.  I need to get some marigolds to plant with the tomatoes.  The marigolds help bugs stay away from tomatoes.

I need to go out in my garden and plan on where I'm going to plant everything.  I'm afraid that I won't have enough space.  I plan on growing a lot of okra and peanuts.  Onions and garlic will have to go somewhere, but I definitely know where I'm going to put my tomatoes.

I also planted ranunculus bulbs/sets in my flower garden.  I hope that it's not to late to plant them.  I think those kinds of flowers are always so pretty.

The Pink Thumb - Where are you Spring?

Garlic

Celebrity Tomatoes

Tomatoes

8 Ball Zucchini

A Peanut

I think everyone around here is ready for Spring.  Someone said that this is the coldest winter in about 40 years. It has been so bitterly cold.  Here in Oklahoma, it gets warm and then drastically cold.  Right now it's about 7 degrees Fahrenheit and this weekend it might be warm.

Everybody is starting to plan their gardens.  Well, plan theirs since it is so cold. Mine is going to be simple this year. Last year, I planted mine too early and about lost half of my garden even though I had to cover the garden with buckets.  I'm going to plant tomatoes, onions, zucchini and peanuts.  Maybe a few other things might go in their. I also have 6 Apache thorn-less blackberry plants.

This last summer was their first time to produce berries. It was really fun to pick them off.  My little puppy, Jessi tried to eat the berries.  I had to pick them before she could get to them.  I'm going to order a few more.  The blackberry's that you order come as bareroot, with just the roots and the stem, which may be about a foot tall.  The plants from the store, actually come in a pot with soil and are about 1 1/2 feet with leaves.

I don't know what it is, but every time that I try to grow yellow squash, they turn up orange and hard.  They also don't get big.  It must be my soil.  I don't plant stuff that I know that won't grow.  We've grown corn before but it's so hard to pick it at the right time. 

I'll probably also plant okra in the middle of the summer.  Last summer, I got busy and forgot to plant them.  They grow better when it's hot and it gets hot in Oklahoma.