Garden Photos!

Just some pictures of my vegetable garden this summer and the fruits of my labor!! Includes my sugar baby watermelons, heirloom tomato, hot peppers, and my garden!

Hubpages Recipe Contest June 2012

This month on Hubpages.com the contest is for recipe articles.  I finally got around to typing up a drink recipe this week and posted it this afternoon for the contest!  The recipe is for Orange Mint Iced Green Tea.  I go the idea because I recently planted mint in my backyard and have been ency to try using it in something!  The  Iced tea came out pretty good too.  Follow the link for the recipe, its simple, cheap and healthy for you!

Orange Mint Iced Green Tea - A Refreshing and Healthy Summer Drink

Spring Gardening Hubs!

For my second hub of the day, i created a hub that lists all the articles i have written about gardening and greening your backyard.  These hubs have some great suggestions for spring projects around the yard from why street trees are important to why we need victory gardens and how to revive your compost pile!  I hope these articles are not only useful but inspirational!  Read article here:  My Spring Gardening Hubs!

My garden as of May 21, 2012!

Growing Vegetables from Kitchen Scraps!

Just finished a new hub on Hubpages that I have been meaning to write for a while.  I discovered that some kitchen scraps that end up in my compost bin can actually be used to grow more plants and eventually more food!  An alternative approach to gardening!  Check it out here: Growing Vegetables from Kitchen Scraps!

Jumping Azalea Bushes 5/6/12

Beautiful azalea bushes in bloom last week at the end of April! These two bushes(yes there's two there) are at my grandmother's house and are at least 40 years old are older!!! They have beautiful flowers in the spring and shiny, wax like leaves all summer. It's weird to say I have a favorite shrub but this would be it!! And specifically these two, which use to act as a hurdle when my cousins and I were young, running down the side yard to jump over it like we were horses (we had good imaginations and my cousin horseback rode). They were not as healthy back then, probably because of us jumping over them lol but now they are better then ever and make a great little hedge, not to mention a beautiful color in the spring!

Starting my vegetable Garden! 4/30/12

After a very warm start to the spring, temps have cooled down a bit, leaving the question of planting on every gardeners mind...my vegetable garden has been needing a lot of work lately so today I finally got some extra soil and dug up a small corner to start planting! Although it is too early for many vegetables in southern Connecticut, the unofficial planting date is May 15th, it is warm enough to plant some cold weather plants like broccoli and lettuce! In fact I started my broccoli from seed in a pot on my back deck and finally transplanted them into my garden today! (see photo below) I can't wait to plant more!

Suburban Wildlife Photography

Here's a new photography hub on Hubpages called "Suburban Wildlife Photography" i may make a series out of this one depending on the shots i can get of wildlife in my backyard or in my suburban community.  This hub focuses on photographs of a rabbit and some Robins I took recently.  The rabbit is a frequent visitor to my backyard and is not always easily photographed.