My garden

 I'm long overdo for a new post, but I have been busy. So excited to have my garden again, but it's bigger then any other year cause I ended up purchasing a Vegpod. I saw commercials on it, and when I went to get my herbs, I saw blueberries, so I decided to get some plants of those too. I have never had to care for my own blueberries before, so I looked online and seems like rabbits and birds love them as well, so that made up my mind and I got a Vegpod. So with that purchase, I did another trip to get more vegetables to grow. Not sure how well they will turn out cause I'm new to this, but so far so good. Here's the start of my garden

The top photo starting at the back to the left are my blueberries, middle is lettuce then to the right is cucumbers. In the front on the left is sweet peppers, middle is tomatoes, then I have kale towards the middle and spinach in the front. Then for my herbs on the left at the top is basil, middle is rosemary and in the front parsley. The right at the top is chives then thyme.

My hubby also decided to get my wooden stand a bit more sturdy and two tiered, so here's what it looks like now

The pot on the step is last year's thyme, that decided to partial regrow. I took out most of the dead ones, and kept what was still alive. It's still doing really well. And I really love what he did to my wooden stand, the pots fit in better, cause they use to be side by side, and the pots were snug together, so at times it was hard to get them to go straight. 

Here's what my vegetable garden looks like as of yesterday, which I made a few changes.

The plant in the middle at the back, you can see a black thing holding it up, that is a jalapeno plant. I had kept it in the big pot I got it in, but realized I have room for it in my vegpod, I just had to shift my lettuce more to the middle and everything fits well. So as you can see it's growing quite nicely. I didn't take a new photo of my herbs but they have grown quite a bit as well. My basil is a little more then twice the size, so I am making some pasta for supper tonight and I'll for sure be adding some fresh basil, chives and parsley. Here's what my vegpod looks like, this was before I put anything it in.

I love how everything is protected, so no animals come by to eat my garden. Our neighbor next to us, had done a garden and they lost it all from animals coming in and eating it. I also fixed up my front garden to make it look really pretty.

The tiny flowers by the girl and guy in my garden haven't come out yet, but they are a redish flower that is suppose to bloom out. My flowers in the back yard have come out though and they look so pretty!

To the left of these flowers, I have a big bush of just green leaves right now, but huge white flowers come out of them. These come back each year and I'm happy about that. I did work on getting rid of a lot of weeds around there, so this looks cleaner now lol. 

In terms of cooking, I have made my own salsa, which turned out really good

This is the salsa over some salmon, it was very yummy! I also made a really healthy breakfast one morning

So two hard boiled eggs topped with some of my fresh chives, a little salt, pepper and paprika. I have some mashed up avocado, cucumber slices, raspberries and kiwi. It was very good! Another tasty breakfast

I did an scrambled up omelette with ham, spinach, onion and mushrooms with a little bit of feta cheese, and then some raspberries and cantaloupe. I have made a few without meat, cause I do try to not eat to much meat cause it aggravates my endo, causing me some pain.

We also had to get a new dishwasher cause our old one started leaking, and the cause of the leak was due to corrosion so it was just easier to get a new dishwasher. Glad we did cause it's so much quieter!! I am still working out as well, this past week has been a more low key workout, so all walking, but starting tomorrow I'm getting back into bigger workouts, with some running and weight exercises.

This weekend has been pretty quiet for us, other then de-weeding a lot of our back yard, which we had to stop cause it started to rain, along with thunder. It's a pretty hot and humid weekend so not doing quite as much outside. They are also calling for more rain this afternoon, so it's more of relaxing day today. I did also get my Epicure order not long ago. I got the burger press, so I can make my own veggie burgers. I also got a spice that goes into salmon burgers which I want to try. They will be good in a burger or just to have on it's own. I have to find the recipe and give them a try. Hope everyone is having a good weekend.