{"id":546,"date":"2011-04-20T21:13:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-20T21:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2011\/04\/the-fruits-of-our-labors-thus-far.html"},"modified":"2011-04-20T21:13:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-20T21:13:00","slug":"the-fruits-of-our-labors-thus-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2011\/04\/the-fruits-of-our-labors-thus-far\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fruits of Our Labors…Thus Far…"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was planning to be scarce from the blogosphere while Dave and I attend a “Squadron Commander’s Course” at the base all week. The kids were going to the before- and after-school child care. But on Tuesday, Jacob came home from school looking and feeling pretty poor, and had a 101F fever. I kept Jacob home from school today so he could recover, and here I am with an unexpected day at home. I was able to catch up on a bunch of household odds and ends, including taking some pictures of my veggie garden so far<\/a>! I’m so excited about how well things are going. I’m also prepared for everything here to be all fried-to-heck by late June.<\/p>\n

It’s been 5 1\/2 weeks since we planted our seedlings. Let’s start with a before and after:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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March 13, 2011.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
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April 20, 2011.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Enjoy some close up pictures of the garden’s progress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Our first jalapeno pepper.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
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Our first bell peppers.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
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Grape tomatoes.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
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Yellow granex onions.  If they were growing in Vidalia County, GA, they’d be “Vidalia Onions”<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
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Cucumbers-to-be.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
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Our first female pumpkin flower…blog followers from 2009 remember my pumpkin pimping days here<\/a>, here<\/a> and here<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
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From my previous blog about the fauna on the Panhandle<\/a>, you’ll know that when I see new friends in the backyard I’m ready to investigate.  {Running to search Google}  Okay, I’m back.  What we have here is a “Six-Lined Racerunner<\/a>“.  He was hanging out near our garden.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
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Here are TWO green anoles sitting under my upside-down tomato planter.  The one at the bottom has his pink “dewlap<\/a>” exposed, but since he’s head-on, you can’t see it too well.  This picture shows the dewlap a little better, but you can’t see the 2nd lizard as well, so I didn’t feature this pic<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
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One of my two upside-down tomato planters, dripping with young green plum tomatoes!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
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I can’t wait to make some “Grammy Vollmer Pasta Sauce” with these!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was planning to be scarce from the blogosphere while Dave and I attend a “Squadron Commander’s Course” at the base all week. The kids were going to the before- and after-school child care. But on Tuesday, Jacob came home from school looking and feeling pretty poor, and had a 101F fever. I kept Jacob … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[97,620],"class_list":["post-546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-florida","tag-gardening"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t