Benjamin's cabbage


Check out the cabbage Benjamin is growing! He is hoping to win 1000.00 scholarship is his cabbage is the biggest. Go Ben! Either way it's been fun to watch it grow from a seed.

UPDATE:It looks like Ben might be the only kid in his class who has entered this contest. We are not sure if the scholarship is local or national but we'll find out. We had to weigh the cabbage tonight, 10.4 lb. Wowza.

Gardening & baking










If you are not into gardening or baking this post is not for you... :)

Summers it seems is just a busy as the rest of the year. We have been trying to keep the boys busy with activities, chores and yard work which makes Chris and I even busier. I had a rare minute this morning to tend to the garden, which is doing really well. I snapped a few pictures of the many fruits and vegetables that will be coming on soon enough. I am really pleased with our garden and and happy to once again have a place to plant and dig. It looks like our new fruit tress will produce 3 pears and around 10 apples if all mature without issues. The blackberry starts do have berries that are ripening. It look like we may need to wait another year for our first glimpse of raspberries, grapes and strawberries but the plants seem healthy. Last week I harvested all four broccoli plants, without any bugs. Yum. We also had out first onion and garlic. See if you can spot my little helper who is always at my side. Nicholas love to garden too, he love to pick all of my green tomatoes. Not sure how to stop this darling little pest...


We also picked our first Zucchini. This morning I promptly made 4 loaves of Zucchini and an altered Banana & Zucchini bread. Apparently both breads freeze well. The house smells amazing. Good start to a Sunday.

Banana Zucchini Bread recipe

Zucchini Bread recipe

HipstaPrint cold weather gardening

Got the cold weather veggies in the ground!



This weekend we went to the nursery and purchased a few bare root blackberries, grapes and strawberries. The guy at the nursery suggested we wait a few weeks get more mature raspberry plants rather than the bare root raspberries because we may get fruit this year instead of three years out. I agree.

I am soaked the roots (as recommended by nursery) before I planted.

We planted:

Albion Strawberries (native to Utah)
Red Grapes
Aspen thornless blackberries

And we are got a few cold weather plants for the garden, peas, broccoli, onions & lettuce.


Shot with my Hipstamatic for iPhone
Lens: Roboto Glitter
Flash: Off
Film: Cano Cafenol