Organic Phui Style (OPS)

That is right this is OPS. Our first garden. I really am a nerd when it comes to this so brace yourself for some embarrassing talk. I must give credit to my garden actually being put in the ground to Julie Smalley a good friend I miss like crazy! She said she would help me plant it and I kept on reminding her till she came over. So here is OPS - I was so excited when my first bell pepper was the size of a quarter I made K come down to see it. Now when the neighbors see me in the little garden they ask what I am harvesting or ask if they can have some. To which my kind reply is "get your own freakin garden, I mean sure" needless to say it has been really fun eating the garden. Jacob frequently tells his friends - "you want to go tomato hunting?". They all get really excited and fill up their shirts with all the tomatoes that are even thinking about being red. Then they wash them and eat them all - most tomatoes don't make it in the house. Anyways next year we are planning a huge garden with the two neighbors - it will be in their backyard cause we are putting our house on the market but this OPS has got me excited for more!! I currently have growing - cucumber (in abundance), tomatoes, bell peppers, basil, zucchini, potatoes, cilantro, chives, and some unknown yet large thing. The back row in the top picture are my 8 tomato plants. They are very sad because they grew too big - they were taller than me, but the wind and weight have really pushed them down. I had to randomly put another cage in to try and help the plants have growing options. Next year I will stake my plants.

What the crap is that you may be asking yourself. I too am asking this question - I can't remember what we planted, I am hoping for a spaghetti squash. Julie and I ran out of room in the "garden" so we just planted our extra plants in the middle of the weeds on the side of my house. It obviously didn't stop this big mama from growing.


This is the cucumber plant where the OPS was tested and won hands down. We got a regular Giant store cucumber and cut it up and took the taste test. It was really sad and kind of disgusting how much better the OPS cucumber tasted. While I was eating the non OPS cucumber I thought to myself - I remember this taste and the NEW taste is way better. Then I had to do the test on K and he was shocked at how much better the OPS cucumber was!! AWESOME!!

I must put a disclaimer on my OPS - this is PA where you put it in the ground and presto you have the plant. Also there were a lot of prayers (in my heart) that went out for my first garden. There may have even been a few threats in those prayers. For example, one such prayer might have suggested that if this attempt failed there would never be another. (It was really hot when we planted, and I remember not liking that) But I would NEVER admit to that kind of prayer talk. If you need some cucumbers or tomatoes just come and visit :)!! I must give credit to Sandra and her son who while stopping by for a visit one day weeded with me for a good hour. Then there was K and my mom weeding the garden while I was swimming - what can I say I am way too lazy to weed.