Well, it’s a busy week. This coming weekend is the NextStep pig pickin’ – in which Oak roasts a 150-pound porker for consumption by 300 hungry IBMers. Needless to say, all of the purchasing and preparations are in high gear.

So, instead of leaving you hanging, I present you with some shots from our garden from a few weeks ago. We have a small but fruitful container garden on our back patio (OK, this effort is mostly Oak’s but I try not to kill the flowers). We also started growing some flowers and stuff in the front with cuttings that Oak’s dad gave us when we were up in NY. We also got a bunch of flowers on the cheap at Lowe’s last night for that area, but we still have to plant them. Pictures coming of that soon, if it gets very attractive looking at least!

This is the mammoth basil, from which we have already had a batch of pesto:

My variety garden box (from Ikea!):

A cute little gnome guards one of our thyme plants:

This hen and chicks pot has been multiplying like crazy. This all started with 1 plant last year:

Oak’s family got him an “early birthday gift” of this pig foot wiping thingy. It sits next to our front door. Oink!

This is a plant stand we got at Ikea last year. It’s holding the purple flowers, thyme, and crazy chives on the bottom:

Our rosemary plant survived the winter. Oak has recently learned you can make them reproduce with the cuttings… I feel more experimentation coming on:

The garden peas with some decorative marigolds in the same box for some color. Since this picture, we already have a few good size pea pods growing:

This is the ichiban eggplant, aka “Itchy”. He has since grown a large and attractive purple flower:

Since there’s a variety of things to get done in the next 3 days, this will most likely be my last post until the weekend of pigness begins. I will try to keep you updating on the porky goodness on twitter, if you are so inclined!! I’m a little weary because it’s supposed to be almost 100 degrees out on Saturday, and this whole thing is outside. I’ll be sweating.. like a pig. Oh dear, bad time to use that expression! Have a great week.

Posted by Carrie on Wednesday, June 4, 2008
Categories: garden, life happenings · 6 Comments »