2004 Was A Good Year For Vegetable Gardening

The greatest gift of the garden is the restoration of the five senses!

It Is 2004 And Time To Plant The Garden

Garden preparations
Preparations are underway... String bean nets are up

2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar.

It has been designated the: International Year of Rice (by the United Nations), International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO), 2004 World Health Day topic was Road Safety (by World Health Organization), and the Year of the Monkey (by the Chinese calendar).

Independent o the rest of the world, the Liles household is bust preparing for the summer garden.  Hands and knees forming the beds for the little babies.

Join us to watch them grow throught the summer.

Garden ready to go
Poppy gets help from the troops! Pinky in fromt and Flower, Sarge, and Mickey bringing up the rear

Vegetables are quite valuable so we have trained a set of vicious Chihuahua's to protect them from people who would make off with them (the vegetables).

The pack is known throughout the neighborhood as wild fierce animals who will, without question, jump up and bite bandits in the ankles causing severe pain to the stomach from the laughter caused by a vicious attack!

Actually, we have to protect the vegetables from the Chihuahua's as they enjoy browsing the strawberries, blueberries, carrots, and other little vegetables!

So beware... you have been warned!

Front Yard

Yes, we have plants in the front yard but we select them not to look like a farm but shrubbery.
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Preparations & Underway

The preparations are a lengthy process as we have to get rid of last years leftovers, search for weeds, roto-till the ground and add whatever soil amendments we deem proper.
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An Arial View (From Our Roof)

I got up on the roof and took some pictures front and back to see what the airplanes see!
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Growing Like Mad

During the growing season there are days when one can go to the yard and listed to the vegetables grow.  String beans grow six inches a day and squash can go crazy in a day.
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