Pregnancy and Gardens

I had my first midwife appointment on Wednesday. I have nothing exciting to share. You can not pick up the baby's heart beat quite yet on the doppler, so I didn't even get to hear that. My official due date is November 16 (that's my brother-in-law's birthday). I have a feeling it will closer to a Thanksgiving baby though, because I'm always over due. I have felt pretty well this pregnancy. I've had a few yucky feeling days, but I have not been throwing up, so I'm happy. I'm a bit tired and run down, but that is pretty normal. It's actually better if I don't give in and get to lazy. The lazier I get, the worse I feel it seems, so I'm trying to stay really busy. This morning I did not feel well at all. I had a small probably when I was pregnant with Hannah passing out. I passed out a couple of times (once I ripped the towel rail complete off the wall and even took out some drywall...no good. Today I felt pretty weak and dizzy for a few hours. So, I reluctantly made an egg and cheese bagel and drank a Gatorade, and I feel a lot better. I even got a good lunch, grilled chicken, broccoli and un-fries. So, I feel better...I'm hoping it stays this way.

Garden update....I think our garden looks great! We've had a few problems and a few successes so far. Let me share.

Problems...
*We've tried planting corn, I believe 4 times now. Every time within about 5 days, the birds pick the corn seeds. They don't even have time to sprout. I think this is something I need to plant and grow in small containers, maybe indoors until they are established then try to transplant. I'm pretty sure it's to late in the season to do that now though.

*Most of our salad greens are not doing well. Spinach and iceberg lettuce have not grown at all. I think these are fall/winter plants down here.

*I'm pretty sure I shared my pathetic radishes with you all. So, no need to re-visit that.

Successes (so far)
*Several of our veggies have flowered this week this seems to be a good sign to me.

*Our beans and peas look great. We need to find a way to give them more room to climb. Our little fence is not doing the job. Maybe this weekend. Our peas flowered this week.

*Two of the salad greens, Indian Mustard (I think that's a salad green?!?!) and Romain lettuce look great, to me anyway.

*The zucchini are huge. I had no idea how these, and cucumbers would grow. I definitely didn't plant them "right". But we'll know better for next year. These plants needs lots and lots of room. We transplanted a few that I don't know yet if they'll survive. Zucchini flowered big yellow flowers this week.

*Cucumbers also look great, and they have flowered too. I think they need more room than we gave them, but again, we know now for next year.

*I think our carrots are looking alright, but that will be hard to judge until it's time to harvest.

*And our onions seem to be doing fine too.


We really wanted to have sweet potato plants, but I couldn't get any sweet potato roots to sprout buds, so we just planted two whole potatoes. Probably NOT the way we were suppose to do it, but I couldn't figure it out. What do you think? Do you think we'll get anything? The two potatoes we planted each had 4 or 5 nice long roots coming off so I guess I just thought maybe they'd grow into plants. I'll have to work on that better for next year I think. We'll see though.


It's been fun to watch these plants grow. I hope we actually get to harvest some. Nicole and Hannah both like to play/work in the garden. Hannah was in there with us the other day. We were pulling weeds, so she started imitating us and grabbed anything green she could find and rip it up. Unfortunately, it was usually a real veggie, not a weed! hehe.