My sister (chapter2lifetogether.blogspot.com) posted photos of carrots and tomatoes from her garden and it inspired me to get busy and post our own little garden story. We bought our house 3 years ago in May and the previous owners were French Nationals. As part of their CA experience they planted 2 varieties of grapes on the side of the house and numerous palm trees. As CA natives we promptly gave away those palm trees knowing how quickly they grow and what a pain they are to remove when they get big and worked on killing the grapes as we were not interested in the upkeep that was involved with them. That said, they are on the side of the house and it is an area off limits to our kids and while not off limits to us it is infrequently visited. Last weekend my sisters and their families (minus one brother in law and niece) were at our house and we discovered grapes on the side of the house...a true surprise. T brought in a bunch and our kids promptly ate them. He told me that we did not have anymore. My niece D (shown below) inquired about the location of the grapes and I went and showed the messy side yard to her. She and I looked and discovered lots and lots of grapes. It was exciting! For the rest of the afternoon all of the kids were eating these tiny red seedless grapes.
They were so sweet and tasty!
D and her harvest!
Nothing better than homegrown, ripe fruit!
So, rather than try and kill them we are now watering them, will be building trellises for them...whoever knew that we could have a vineyard in our backyard?
The last 3 weeks have been a blur (well, maybe the last 3 months or more) and I have so many fun photos of our kids with their cousins that will be appearing soon! Keep watching!
