Sunflowers

This year we (accidentally) planted a bunch of sunflowers near the gate to our chicken pen. Well, actually, the birds planted them by throwing the seeds off of the feeder nearby. Near mid July they peaked in gorgeousness, and we had a beautiful view!

 

The sunflowers brought our homestead more than just a cheery view- they also brought back the honey bees! Our entire family was so excited to see all of the bees buzzing around our sunflowers. We were a bit discouraged (and nervous) last year when we didn’t see any kind of bee buzzing through our gardens. This year, though, the flowers were teeming with bees! I am so grateful that the Lord blessed us again with bees!

I was also surprised to learn that not only bees pollenate flowers and vegetable gardens. Did you know that hornets (those nasty little buggers) can do the same? I still dislike them, but hey, at least they are good for something!

 

May you be blessed!

jk

Garden Update

Hi my name is Lillie.I will be writing on Tuesdays and Fridays. Most of my blogs will probably be about gardens, and they will mostly be pictures! So here's our Garden!

First Veggie Garden!

We just got our first tomatoes!

And the blueberries are beautiful but Ruthie Lynn's Chickens love them and its hard to keep Bertie from jumping the fence to get to them. :-)

Tomatoes are on the way!

My carrot tops are HUGE so I'm hoping the Carrot it self is just as big!

Our zucchini has 7 little zucchinis on it already! But because of all the rain (ill tell that story some other time) we had to plant our cucumbers late so as you can see below they are a little behind.

We have already gotten 3 Lovely strawberry's!

We planted out pumpkins at the same time as our cucumbers but the are already twice the size!

Me and my mom will have to move them soon.

The Flower Gardens:

Daisy and Lorcy posed for me! :-)

The Hollyhocks

Lilys!

My Moms favorite. Daisy's

Lambs Ear in bloom!

I hope you Enjoy your Day!

Blessings,

Lillie Laughter W.