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We have had a lot of rain in the past few weeks, but I think that my garden is still doing pretty good!! The wind knocked off one of the bell peppers over the weekend but other than that, everything else is still standing!!Here are a few pictures of what is growing this week. As you can see, we had to put the fence up. The darn rabbits were just eating too much and basically took up camp in our back yard. Since the fence went up, I have only seen 1 rabbit in the past 4 days. Maybe they got the hint!!

Can you see them? PUMPKINS!!! Last year we planted them too late and never got any, but this year, I think we will have plenty to carve and decorate with come October!!!

Lettuce is starting to sprout back through, maybe it will survive the wrath of the rabbits!!
Jalapenos!!!
Broccoli is coming back!!
Our cucumbers are trying to come back!!!
One lonely tomato!!

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>Yesterday was so busy and I forgot to put up my garden update, but here it is!! Thanks Tosha for putting up the link up!!

I finally have started to see some real growth in the garden. This week I will have to put up the fence around the garden again. There are more bunnies than ever and we saw one Monday digging to make another bunny nest. Really, they need to make birth control for these things, they are reproducing faster than I can blink. Give it a break already!!!

Here are the pumpkins- no pumpkins yet but the vines are growing great!!

Here is one little tomato that sprouted Monday!! You would have thought I told the girls that Santa was coming to eat dinner with us. They were so excited that we have tomatoes coming!!
Here is one of the jalapeno’s…..
Here is one of the green bell peppers!!

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We finally have the apple tree and peach tree planted and ready to go. After many peoples advice and a few phone calls to local nurseries, we decided to plant one of each and see how they grow!! Hopefully in a few years we can get some fruit from them!! Here are a few pictures!!

>Okay, so last week while cutting our grass, we ran over a bunny nest. Fur went flying everywhere. I know what you are thinking, the bunnies are fine. It was just the fur that the mama made the nest with that went flying. I took my shoe and collected the fur and covered the hole back again.

My girls were so excited that we had bunnies in the yard. I was not so excited. We no longer have our dog and so I was excited that I could finally take down the fence around the garden this year. But I guess I was wrong. This mama bunny has eaten almost all of our lettuce and I went out today to take pictures for this post and my poor broccoli that had 8 or 9 leaves on it, is now just a stick in the ground. See what I mean! I love nature’s creatures, but my garden is my new love. Please bunny stay away, I really do not want to have to wish bad things to happen to you.

We bought a apple tree and a peach tree this weekend at Meijer. The apple tree was $9.99 and the peach tree was only $6.99. The apple tree is about 5 feet tall and the peach tree is over 6 feet. I was told that you need 2 trees to produce fruit. But do they have to be the same tree to produce the fruit? I was talking to Tosha over at Savings Makes Cents today and we were trying to figure out if I had to have 2 apple trees or is it okay to have one apple and one peach tree. Can you help me?
Here are my tomatoes and a little bit of the pumpkins. The tomatoes are doing very well, I even have a few that have flowered. So I need to stake them this week and wait for our tomatoes to start sprouting!!
Here are the black beauty bell peppers that we got. My husband and girls love bell peppers, but they say that these dark purple bell peppers are the best they ever had. Little white flowers started blooming today so these should be here soon!! I can not wait to get something from our garden!!So have your own garden that you want to share? Have any tips, ideas, pictures or just anything you want to share showing you getting dirty? Add the link to your post below in the MckLinky, and if you want to share copy this button and add it to your post. Your readers will then be able to see others gardening tips, ideas and pictures!!

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>If you have not bought a topsy turvey thingy for your tomato or strawberry plants, head over to Wal-Mart. I picked them up yesterday for just $4.00 each!! Hopefully next week I will have them up and ready to go and I will share. Here is what I have planted and have started to sprout!! They look so cute!!

Carrots
Green Onions
Lettuce

Parsley is looking good!
Cantaloupe
Raspberry Bush
Tomatoes

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>Since I did not get much done with the garden this weekend due to our never ending busy schedule!! I thought I would show our Raspberry bushes that were so generously given to us by my friend Becky over at Saving Bits and Pieces!!

>Every Tuesday I am going to share with you my garden pictures, tips or anything that may “come up”. LOL!! Last year was our first year at attempting a garden and it turned out pretty well. This year we are going even bigger. We are planting almost everything that we can, only things that we eat though. I will also try to incorporate some berry bushes into our landscaping instead of just staying in the garden!