Growing, Growing, Gone...

We posted at the beginning of the summer of the garden and flowers that we planted. Well, that added a lot to our summer! Our garden grew and grew and grew! We had a great summer/fall keeping good care of our pretty flowers and our vegetables. We didn't have too much faith in the veggies, we just wanted to see what would come of them. Our little garden did very well though, regardless of our lack of much faith. Very soon our cucumber plants started growing, one day we spotted the first bright yellow flower... that meant cucumbers were coming!

Cucumber Plants

Carrots

The first spotted flower

It's coming along..

 Pretty soon there were tons of flowers and we were on the lookout for any cucumbers!

 Then, the cucumber plants started taking over the garden and we found our first grown cucumber!

 And then another...

 And then suddenly... a TON more!!

We picked all these in one day. :)

 After getting so many, we started the pickle making process. It was a long and sort of messy process but they turned out great!

 And... cucumbers just kept coming!!

 And we kept making pickles and started canning them up!

Cans and cucumbers overtaking our counter!

Pretending to drink the pickle juice.

Our first batch of bright green pickles!

another batch..

And finally.. our last cucumbers picked

Our final product... pickles for a long time!!

 After giving lots of cucumbers away, eating lots of them, and canning the rest, the cucumber plant was finally through giving us wonderful veggies! So, we pulled them up and tried to give more room to our carrots. After we did that our house was being re stuccoed and there were construction workers walking around that did not care about gardens too much I suppose. Here was our solution:

 It worked! They stayed off our carrots. Unfortunately because we planted a little late and because the cucumbers "ruled the roost" our carrots are still as big as they were when the cucumbers started doing well... very small. No carrots this year but we know what to do better next year. We loved our little garden and flowers, what a fun thing to take care of together! :) And now we have yummy yummy pickles for a while! :)