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Colorful Midwestern Garden of Amy, Get Busy Gardening

Do you have friends with whom you share a common interest?

I do.

My friend and fellow blogger, Amy Andrychowicz of Get Busy Gardening loves gardening as much as I do. Amy and I have spent time together in Arizona and later in Florida.

Last week, while on a road trip through the Midwest, I made sure to make a stop in Minneapolis to visit with Amy and see her garden in person.

You may be wondering what a gardener from a hot, dry climate would have in common with one from a cold, temperate climate?

My winter temps can get down to 20 – 25 degrees in my desert garden while Amy’s goes all the way down to -30 to -25 degrees. That is up to a 50 degree difference!

But, believe it or not, there are a large number of plants that can grow in both climates.

Entering Amy’s back garden, my attention was immediately drawn to her large beds filled with colorful perennials.

I love iris!

I am always taking pictures of iris throughout my travels. While they can grow very well in Arizona, I have never grown them myself.

The major difference between growing irises in the Southwest and the Midwest is the time that they bloom. Iris will bloom earlier in the spring while their bloom won’t start until late spring in cooler regions.

After seeing Amy’s in full bloom, I may need to rethink planting these beautiful plants in my own garden.

Succulents aren’t just for the warmer regions. I have encountered prickly pear cacti in some unexpected places including upstate New York.

Here, Amy has a prickly pear enjoying the sun flanked by two variegated sedum ‘Autumn Joy’ that produces reddish flowers in late summer to early autumn.

This plant also can grow in desert gardens, but does best in the upper desert regions or in the low desert in fertile soil and filtered shade.

Colorful Midwestern Garden of Amy, Get Busy Gardening

You might not expect to see water harvesting practiced outside of arid regions. But you can see examples of water harvesting throughout the United States.

This is Amy’s rain garden. The middle of the garden is sloped into a swale that channels and retains rainwater allowing it to soak into the soil. Plants are planted along the sides of the swale who benefit from the extra water.

A water feature was surrounded by low-growing plants including one that caught my eye.

This ground cover had attractive, gray foliage covered with lovely, white flowers. I wasn’t familiar with this plant and asked Amy what it was.

I love the name of this plant, ‘Snow in Summer’ (Cerastium tomentosum). While it thrives in hot, dry conditions, it does not grow in warmer zones 8 – 11.

Enjoying the shade from the ground cover was a frog.

I always enjoy seeing plants that aren’t commonly grown where I live. I have always liked the tiny flowers of coral bells (Heuchera species). It blooms throughout the summer in cooler climates.

Do you like blue flowers? I do. I first saw Brunnera macrophylla ‘Jack Frost’ growing on a visit to the Lurie Gardens in Chicago.

This lovely perennial won’t grow in my desert garden, so I’m always excited to see it during my travels.

Amy had two beautiful clematis vines just beginning to bloom.

I must admit to being slightly envious of her being able to grow these lovely, flowering vines. Years ago after moving to Arizona, I tried growing clematis. While it did grow, it never flowered. Clematis aren’t meant to be grown in hot, dry climates.

Aren’t these single, deep pink peonies gorgeous?

While I am usually content with the large amount of plants that I can grow in my desert garden, peonies are top on my list of plants that I wish would grow in warmer climates such as mine.

Amy’s garden was filled with beautiful, flowering peonies of varying colors.

I took A LOT of pictures of her peonies.

There was even a lovely bouquet of peonies decorating the dining room table.

Amy’s back garden is divided up into individual beds and one entire side of the garden is filled with her impressive vegetable garden.

You may be surprised to find that growing vegetables is largely the same no matter where you live. The main difference is the gardening calendar. For example, I plant Swiss chard in October and enjoy eating it through March. In Amy’s garden, Swiss chard isn’t planted until late spring.

Swiss chard

The raised vegetable beds were painted in bright colors, which contrasted beautifully with the vegetables growing inside. Even when the beds stand empty, they still add color to the landscape.

Green Beans

Kale

Young pepper plants took advantage of a hot, sunny location in which they will thrive.

One thing that is different in vegetable gardening is the practice of ‘winter sowing’. When Amy first told me about this method of sowing and germinating seeds, I was fascinated.

Basically, seeds are planted in containers with holes poked on the bottom for drainage. The containers are then covered with plastic tops also covered with holes.

In mid-winter, the containers are set outside. Snow and later, rain water the plants inside the containers and the seeds germinate once temperatures start to warm up.

Amy has a great blog post about winter sowing that I highly recommend.

As we got ready to leave, we walked through the side garden, which had a wooden bridge.

Different varieties of thyme were planted amount the pavers for a lovely effect.

Thyme can make a great ground cover in areas that receive little foot traffic.

In the front garden, I noticed the characteristic flowers of columbine growing underneath the shade tree.

I don’t often see red columbine. Amy’s reseeds readily, so she always has columbine coming up.

This is a sweet, pink columbine that has smaller, but more plentiful flowers.

I had visited Amy’s garden through her blog, Get Busy Gardening for a long time and it was so wonderful to be able to see it in person. It is beautiful!

I encourage you to visit Amy’s blog, which is filled with a lot of helpful advice – even for those of us who live in the Southwest.

My First Edible Garden 4 Years Later

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Do you have a vegetable garden or have you thought of maybe starting one?

Four years ago, we planted our first vegetable garden.

The kids were eager to join in the fun and helped us install our new garden.

We created a raised vegetable garden that measured 7 x 8 feet for a total area of 56 square feet of space for vegetables.

Although I have grown vegetables as a child and again as a horticulture student – this was our first time growing vegetables on our own.

It has been an incredibly rewarding an learning experience.

After the first year, we enjoyed our little garden so much, that we added an extension…

Our garden was fenced to keep our dogs out.

It was so great having even more space to grow vegetables. You can view how we built our vegetable beds, here.

Those of you who grow vegetables, probably won’t be surprised to hear that we took it even further. We created an edible garden along the side of our backyard, complete with our largest raised bed and added fruit trees and berries.

But, back to our original vegetable garden. This is the garden that I see from my family room window. Besides growing vegetables, it is also where I have masses of flowers growing, which attract pollinators.

Hollyhocks grow year after year, with no help from me. I planted hollyhock seeds 4 years ago and since then, they come every year.

The hollyhocks are located just outside of the raised bed and get enough water from the vegetable garden.

Every year, I am never certain what colors of hollyhock will come up. Some years, I have had white, red, pale pink and magenta flowers.

This year, it is magenta.

Nasturtiums always play an important part in my spring vegetable garden. They help to repel damaging insects from my vegetables AND they add beauty to my garden as well.

They usually come up from seed, beginning in February.

This is the last of my leaf lettuce for the season. Hot temperatures will cause it to ‘bolt’ soon and make the leaves taste bitter. In my garden, this usually occurs in mid-May.

The blue lobelia came up on their own from those planted the previous year.

Onions are beginning to flower and I will harvest them once the tops die back, which should be around late May, early June.

I like to dice my onions and freeze them for future use.

My garden also has an unlikely plant growing next to my carrots – Pink Wood Sorrel. I received a cutting of this plant from a fellow-blogger from Oregon. Surprisingly, it thrives in its corner in my vegetable garden.

The flowers appear throughout spring and then the entire plant dies down in the summer before growing back in the fall.

Along the front of the extended vegetable garden, sit three containers filled with a combination of flowering plants, vegetables and herbs. It is very easy to grow vegetables in pots and you can read how to here.

The newest addition to this area of the garden is a Meyer lemon tree. I realize that it looks rather sad, but there are quite a few new leaves beginning to bud and a few, tiny lemon fruit beginning to form.

The chicken wire is a temporary barrier for the dogs. Eventually, we will remove it.

We selected a Meyer lemon tree because it is slightly more cold-hardy then the ‘Eureka’ variety. Meyer lemons are sweeter them other lemon varieties because they are not a true lemon – they are a cross between an orange and lemon tree. As a result, they are slightly sweeter then your typical lemon.

The only downside to Meyer lemons compared with ‘Eureka’ is that they are thorny.

Strawberries, malabar spinach and garlic are also current residents in my first edible garden.

But, this time of year – my favorite plant in my edible garden isn’t edible – it is my 12-foot tall hollyhocks.

So, how about you? Do you have an edible garden, or are you thinking of starting one?

Flowers, Fruit, Veggies, a Few Bugs and Suckers

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Springtime in the garden is my favorite time of year.

Cool-season flowers are still in bloom while summer-bloomers are getting started. The garden is awash in colorful flowers, vegetables, young fruit AND a few bugs and suckers.

I have two areas in my backyard where I grow edible plants. Today, I invite you to take a tour of the largest edible garden, which is located along the side of my house.

Apple trees – April 2014

At the back of the garden, are two apple trees that I planted last year.

They have grown so quickly. This is what they looked like last year…

Newly planted apple trees – February 2013

What a difference!

I’ll admit that this area looks rather barren. There used to be flowering shrubs up along the wall, which we took out in order to plant edible plants.

Usually, you have to wait a few years before you apple trees will produce fruit, so I was very surprised to see small apples forming.

This is what they look like now. The apples will ripen in June and I am all ready to make homemade applesauce, which tastes so much better then store-bought.

I wrote a post about how to make applesauce, which you can view here.

Blackberry flowers

Against the wall, behind the apple trees, are a row of blackberry bushes.

One of my favorite childhood memories are those of the blackberry bushes we had growing in our backyard in Southern California. We would try to pick all we could before our dog would eat them.

Blackberry bushes are surprisingly easy to grow and there are thornless varieties available. Unfortunately, some of my blackberry bushes are not thornless;-)

They are covered with flowers and small fruit. BUT, I also saw something else on my berries…

Orange/black bugs covered a few of my berries.

I hadn’t seen this type of bug before, so I got to work on researching what these were. Turns out they are the juvenile form of stink bugs – not good.

Evidently, they are fairly resistant to organic pesticides. You can pick them off and squish them.

The chives, garlic, parsley, thyme and sage are doing very well in my herb container. However, the purple petunia is beginning to fade due to warming temperatures. So, I will pull it out soon.

Flowering Sage

I don’t add flowers to my herb container during the summer. I usually let my herbs flower, like my basil and sage.

At the same time we planted our apple trees, I also added two peach trees. I was surprised that this tree produced 19 small peaches just months after we planted it last year – that is not normal. I used them along with peaches from my mother’s trees to make peach jam.

This year, the same tree has decided to put it energy into growing just 2 peaches – which is normal. They are huge! I love to look out my kitchen window and see the fruit slowly ripening.

While admiring the peaches on my tree, I noticed something that did NOT make me happy…

Can you see what the problem is? SUCKERS! And I don’t mean the sweet candy that your grandma used to give you.

Fruit trees are grafted onto rootstock and occasionally, the rootstock decides to send up its own branches. They are called ‘suckers’ because the ‘suck’ up the nutrients that would otherwise got to your fruit tree.

To learn how to recognize and get rid of suckers, click here.

Underneath my apple and peach trees, I have garlic growing. Garlic is a very helpful plant. In this case, it helps to repel borers, which are beetles that lay eggs on the bark. After the eggs hatch, the larvae bore their way into the trunk of the tree, often killing it.

Small fruit is beginning to form on my orange tree. Like other fruit trees, it can take a few years before producing substantial amounts of fruit.

Our orange tree has been in the ground for 2 years and we got three oranges last winter. I was so excited that I wrote an entire post about it.

Looking toward the vegetable garden, my artichoke plant is busy. It has 9 small artichokes growing.

I have a confession to make…

I don’t like eating artichokes.

But, the plant itself is very attractive and is often grown as an ornamental because it is a perennial and lives for more then 1 year.

I do have plans for these artichokes though.

– I will cook a few for my husband, who loves them.

– I will dry a few for fall arrangements.

– And, I will allow some to bloom – the flowers are gorgeous!

The purple violas in my rusty, old watering can will soon fade as the heat rises.

I do not plant anything in it during the summer months because it is too hot. The soil temperature in small containers, literally ‘cooks’ the roots of plants. Stick with planting larger pots for the summer and let your smaller containers take a break.

At the beginning of this post, I showed you a picture of my edible, side garden from the opposite side, near the wall.

This is the other view, looking in. Toward the left side, are two ‘Summertime Blue’ Eremophila shrubs.

Can you guess the last time that they were pruned?

3 years ago!

I love these shrubs and their bright-green foliage and purple flowers.

Bell-shaped, lavender flowers appear spring through summer. This is a great ‘fuss-free’ shrub for the garden. It is hardy to 15 degrees and thrives in full sun. A definite must for the southwest garden.

For more information about ‘Summertime Blue’, click here.

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Well, that is what is happening in one area of my garden.

I invite you to come back next time, when I will show you my other edible garden, which is in full flower. *I will also share with you the rest of our adventure when we hosted three young girls for the weekend from the Ugandan Orphan’s Choir.

A Summer Edible Garden: Part 2

AZ Plant Lady, Vegetable Gardening

I hope you enjoyed the grand tour of my edible garden that I created in my side yard.

Today, I would like to show what is happening in my original vegetable garden…

As you can see, there is a lot growing in this area.

Among the vegetables is a giant sunflower, pots filled with ornamental plants AND vegetables and hollyhocks that have finished flowering can be seen alongside the garden.

Off to the right side, you can see my container corn.

And yes, those are plastic patio chairs inside my vegetable garden. (I’ll explain why later.)

This edible garden is actually made up of three parts. My original vegetable garden was a fenced in square space. Like many gardeners who like to grow their own food, I realized that I needed more space – so we added on an extension a couple of years ago…

The third part of my edible garden consists of vegetables growing in containers along with ornamental plants…

I currently have zucchini growing in the closest pot along with a jalapeño plant, parsley and sweet potato vines.

The middle pot is filled with a Thai pepper plant, chives, cucumber, celosia and kangaroo paw.

The third (and my most favorite container) has a bell pepper plant, cinnamon basil, green & purple sweet potato vines, dianthus and angelita daisy growing inside.

The outer vegetable garden is filled with sunflowers and bush beans.

Our family loves to eat ‘string beans’. They are easy to grow and to freeze for later.

Here is something that you may not know about growing beans. “They make their own nitrogen, so you don’t need to add any nitrogen fertilizer.”

In fact, if fertilize them with a fertilizer that contains nitrogen – it can cause them to grow beautiful leaves, but not beans. That is because there needs to be a balance between the other major nutrients – phosphorus and potassium.

If you do apply a fertilizer, make sure that contains a low amount of nitrogen.

I have lots of cucumbers growing in the original vegetable garden along with a couple of pumpkin plants.

As a child, I grew up calling cucumbers ‘gurkens’, which is what they are called in German. I spent some time when I was young, in Germany, visiting my grandparents while my grandfather was working over there.

I love cucumbers and we eat them 3 or 4 times a week.

It can be a little hard to spot ripe cucumbers. Most of my cucumber plants are growing up onto the trellis, but sometimes you can find cucumbers growing on the ground. You need to move the leaves aside to see them.

I like to eat cucumbers with salad, using my grandmother’s ‘top secret’ salad dressing recipe.

I only wish that I could grow cucumbers and leaf lettuce at the same time….

Okay, back to the patio chairs sitting in my garden.

Why on earth would I place chairs in my garden?

Well, they are an easy way to provide shade for vegetables that quickly wilt in the full sun.

And so, that is what is going on in my edible gardens this summer.

**I am excited to share with you a gardening video that I made for Troybilt as a part of my involvement with the ‘Saturday 6″.

I’ll debut it for you on Monday 🙂

Arcadia Edible Tour: Part 2

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Earlier this week, I shared with you the first garden on the Arcadia Edible Tour. It was just wonderful to see the Sweet Life Garden in person.

However, we had to tear ourselves away from the first garden because there were more to see…

We stopped by Larry’s “Living the Dream Micro Farm”.

Like many of the gardens we visited, Larry had chickens.

But, what really caught my attention was his row of trash can compost bins.

Each trash can was filled with compost in a different stage. The trash cans are re-purposed by the City of Phoenix and are available to their residents for $5 a bin. Other cities offer free or inexpensive trash cans or compost bins. Check your local city’s website under waste management to see what they offer.

Larry loved talking about his composting. He primarily uses chicken manure, coffee ground and leaves. It takes approximately 2 1/2 months from start to finish according to Larry.

Larry had huge tomato plants growing, heavily laden with fruit (yes, tomatoes are technically a fruit).

After leaving Larry’s garden, my mother asked to stop by Baker’s Nursery, which is her favorite place to buy vegetables. Baker’s is the favorite nursery of locals and is located on 40th Street, South of Indian School Rd.

The problem with me going to a nursery as nice as Baker’s, is that I become like a child in a candy store.

I always come home with plants and seeds. In this case, I bought more bush beans for my garden along with some perennial flowers and Angelita Daisy.

Back on tour, we saw some great examples of vegetables being grown.

Eggplant.

Aren’t these cucumber vines impressive? The trellis is made up of rebar and wire mesh.

I think cucumber flowers are so pretty, don’t you?

I do love the bright colors of blanket flower, which attract pollinators to the vegetable garden.

I think vegetables are beautiful.

This may look like a green tomato – but it isn’t. It’s a tomatillo.

Zucchini is so impressive in the vegetable garden. They grow so quickly and get so big. I have them growing my garden too. Now, I just have to get a recipe for chocolate zucchini cake so my kids will eat it 😉

I haven’t grown strawberries in my garden, although they are my favorite fruit. I spent time in Germany as a child with my grandparents who had a huge strawberry garden and one of my favorite memories is chasing the rabbits away.

I may have to try growing some next year.

In addition to fruit and vegetables, we did see a beautiful lily pond…

And something quite unexpected…

That’s the thing with garden tours, you never know what you will see…

As you can tell, we were enjoying ourselves very much.

There was so much to see, that I still have one more post showing you some of our favorite parts of a few more gardens.

So come on back….you hear?

Arcadia Edible Garden Tour: Part 1

Arizona, Vegetable Gardening

I love visiting other people’s gardens, particularly if they have fruit and vegetables growing in them. So, I was thrilled to be able to go on a tour of local ‘edible’ gardens earlier this month.

This is the second year of the Arcadia Edible Garden Tour, which is made up of a collection of residential gardens in the ‘Arcadia’ area in east Phoenix. I used to live in this area and it is one of my favorite regions of the Phoenix metro area.

Because my mother loves gardening almost as much as I do, I decided to buy her a ticket too and take her with me as a Mother’s Day gift.

Our first stop was to see Jill’s Sweet Life Garden. I made sure to visit there first because I had been following her blog and couldn’t wait to see her gardens in person.

As we entered the garden, We headed straight for the raised vegetable beds.

My mother and I love to grow leaf lettuce, so we had to see what varieties were being grown.

One of the reasons that I was excited to go on this garden tour, was to get ideas to use in my own garden.

Like, using regular wire mesh over the garden. This would be great to use as a support for shade cloth in summer or frost cloth in the winter. It is much more attractive then PVC supports.

The trellis is made of rebar and wire mesh and provides an attractive support for vining vegetables.

As many of you know, I love to grow nasturtiums alongside my vegetables. They aren’t only pretty, they help to keep bad bugs away from my veggies.

This bed had a variety of nasturtium that I was anxious to try ‘Cherry Rose Jewel’ (I found seeds at Botanical Interests). I will definitely be planting these next year.

As I was busy admiring the raised beds, my attention was drawn upward by a massive trumpet vine that was growing up a Phoenix date palm.

Talk about an unexpected support for a vine – I loved it.

I have been growing a special variety of corn in a half wine barrel.

Sweet Life Garden had cucumbers growing in a barrel with a beautiful trellis.

Baker’s Nursery had these wine barrel trellises available, but I’m not sure if they still do. You could certainly make your own.

In addition to cucumbers, sunflowers were also growing in a barrel. I may have to try this.

I love growing herbs in pots, but I think Jill’s look better then mine because of the half barrels. I think I need to get more for my garden.

Tomatoes were growing like crazy with some beautiful heirloom varieties ripening.

Wouldn’t this look beautiful on a sandwich or on a salad?

I think it is important to have seating areas scattered throughout the garden, which invites you to sit and enjoy your surroundings.

Here is another example of the wire mesh being used as a trellis.

For those of you who mourn the fact that they cannot grow leafy greens for their salad in summer – let me introduce you to Malabar spinach.

Okay, it’s not exactly a spinach but tastes great in salads and tastes like spinach when cooked.

It loves hot temperatures and needs a trellis for support. I have seeds, but will probably wait until next year to plant mine.

The seeds can be a little hard to find at your local nursery, but you can buy some through Amazon.com for under a $1 – just type in Malabar spinach in the search.

Why limit yourself to growing just vegetables?

Fruit on shrubs and trees is also fun to grow as you can see from the large peach tree, above and the espaliered apple tree, below.

I especially enjoyed seeing the peach orchard. My peaches are almost ready for picking 🙂

I have been busy picking the blackberries off of my vines and have been thinking of adding more next winter.

After seeing the berries at Sweet Life Garden, I will definitely add more to my own garden.

Did you know that there is a thornless variety? I have one thorny blackberry bush and the rest are thornless. Guess which kind I like best?

It was time to wrap up our visit because there were more gardens to visit.

Did I mention that they have chickens too?

On our way out, we enjoyed seeing a variety of products offered by Sweet Life Garden and local vendors.

I had already eaten breakfast, but that didn’t stop me from enjoying a few samples.

The three-cheese black pepper bread came home with me.

We had a great time visiting Jill, at Sweet Life Garden.

But, our adventure didn’t end there. There were more gardens to visit. I will give you the highlights of the other gardens in my next post.

**You can find information about the Arcadia Edible Garden Tour on Jill’s blog, Sweet Life Garden. Be sure to order early next spring, when tickets are available.

Arcadia Edible Tour: Part 2

Re-Grow Your Green Onions

Vegetable Gardening

First of all, let me begin by saying that I love green onions.

I plant the seeds in my vegetable garden in fall and they are ready for me to harvest in May.

Freshly-harvested onions on the right (Garlic is on the left).

I like to use them in my homemade salsa or sprinkled on top of any Mexican dish that I make – tacos, nachos, Mexican rice, etc.

What I don’t like is having to buy them at the store when they aren’t growing in my garden.

BUT, I learned a great trick this year:

You can re-grow green onions by using the bottom part (the part you usually throw away).

Here is how you do it:

1. Cut off the white base of your green onions (use the top green part for whatever delicious meal you are cooking 😉

2. Place the bottom part of your green onions in a glass or jar and fill with water. Take care NOT to cover the top of the onion with water.

3. Place in front of a sunny window and change the water every other day.

4. In only a week’s time, you will see your green onion start to regrow. The photo above was taken after 10 days.

You can see how the roots grew too.

5. Now simply slice of snip off the green tops for whatever you like to eat green onions on.

You can ‘re-use’ a green onion 2 – 3 times. After this point, they will start to lose their ‘oniony’ flavor.

So, I hope you use this helpful tip. It will not only save you $ at the store, but who doesn’t like more green onions?

Harvest, Canning and a Flight

AZ Plant Lady

I always think of the week of Memorial Day as the first ‘unofficial’ week of summer. The weather is getting hot, the kids have their last day of school and it is also a time of harvest.

For the past few weeks, my tomato and bush bean plants have been fruitful.

Every week, I blanch my tomatoes by putting them in boiling water for 45 seconds, which makes peeling them easier.

Then I remove the green part of the stem and then ‘squish’ the tomatoes to get rid of the seeds and excess liquid.

What remains the tomato, is the delicious part and I put it in a plastic freezer bag (making sure to get all the air out). Then I freeze it until I am ready to use them to make sauce.

*My tomatoes aren’t flowering any longer, because of the hot weather – but the tomatoes are ripening. By mid-May, you should put some sort of shade cloth protection for your tomatoes.

I am thrilled with how well my bush beans are producing. I have six plants and they produce enough for us to eat for dinner once a week. I take the extra and blanch them for 3 minutes and then place them in ice water before freezing them as well.

The end of May is also time that I start canning.

The peaches at Double S Farms (my mother & sister’s family residence) are heavy with sweet fruit.

The trees are so generous that my other sister and I have plenty to make into jam, even after my mother has made hers.

I made three batches so far and have also tried my hand at making ‘Peach Cider Vinegar’, which I will share later.

Soon, the plums at Double S Farms will ripen and then the apples, which I will can as well 🙂

Last Sunday was my son, Kai’s 10th birthday. We had a family celebration with his grandmothers, aunts, uncles and cousins present along with his best friend.

Monday morning, Kai went on a flight in a two-seat airplane based at our local airport.

Kai was excited, but also a little nervous.

His best-friend’s father was the pilot.

Kai was strapped in and all ready to go.

Up in the air and having a great time!

After his flight, we headed to Target with along with his best friend so he could use his gift cards.

Not surprisingly, he used them all to buy more Pokemon cards….his friend also bought some too.

Kai had the best day organizing his cards and trading with his friends.

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I hope you all are having a great week!

Snapshot of a Summer Week in the Garden

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Colorful Midwestern Garden of Amy, Get Busy Gardening

My First Edible Garden 4 Years Later

Flowers, Fruit, Veggies, a Few Bugs and Suckers

A Summer Edible Garden: Part 2

Arcadia Edible Tour: Part 2

Arcadia Edible Garden Tour: Part 1

Re-Grow Your Green Onions

Harvest, Canning and a Flight

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