June Garden

I think the peak of the garden is in June...July is just too hot for anything to do very well...I'll get the July garden photos tomorrow.

June 15, 2010

May 19, 2010

April 15, 2010

March 15, 2010

I pulled those darn potatoes that were taking over the front half of the garden and guess what?! Potatoes!
I've been having baked potates for lunch recently:)

The onions looked a little frail as well, so I dug them up too...onions!

See those tomatoes over the top of the trellis! I had enough tomatoes to can them and to make pasta sauce!

On the left is blueberry jam I made from blueberries from a nearby pick-your-own farm:)

Overdue update...

How is it that when I have the most free time, I'm the busiest? We've been doing a lot of swimming and Kate can now swim underwater totally alone without a floaty about 5 feet! She is really a little fish in the water and loves it.

Alex and my Mom were here for a week at the beginning of June. We love having them visit! Kate loves playing with Annie and Alex both. Alex mowed our lawn because Loren was out of town. He was so tired! It was a lot of work. We were lucky there were here then, because it has been SO hot since they left. Upper 90s every day.

My garden is hanging in there, but everything is pretty wilted after the long hot days. I had enough tomatoes to can a batch! I also harvested the potatoes that were taking over the garden.

All from the garden!

This is Irene, our neighbor that Kate adores. She is going to be in 4th grade and Kate thinks she is absolutely the neatest person on earth. She is wearing a skirt I made her out of an old t-shirt.

Dentist's daughter.

Garden update

Currently harvesting:
snow peas
lettuce (almost finished- starting to bolt)
spinach (almost finished- starting to bolt)
parsley
basil
chives
oregano
yo choi
bok choi

We have tomatoes, brussels sprouts and peas that should be ready in the next few weeks and I'm trying some "summer glory" lettuce to see if it won't bolt...

May 19, 2010

April 15, 2010

March 15, 2010

Another reason NC is nice in the Springtime...

April 15, 2010

All my babies are out! Everything but strawberries and onions from seed. Yay!!!

March 2010

The garden is waking up!

Kent and Debbie helped me to make the garden I've been dreaming about for the past few cold months. It is loosely based on the Square Foot Gardening method except the author has 4x4 foot raised beds and I have four 2x14 foot beds. This is in the space where my garden was last year, but more organized now! And check out the trellis in the back!! We turned over the existing soil, put up the boards to separate it, amended the soil and put in step stones. It is beautiful! I am very excited. I moved the strawberries and spinach and lettuce that survived the winter to their appropriate spots in the grid.

...and here is my seed starting station in our master bathtub:) So far we've got parsley, brussels, basil, peppers, eggplant and marigolds up!

I'll keep posting updates of the garden as it grows and as the weather gets nicer and nicer!

A little green before Christmas

We could hardly believe that we were still harvesting these beautiful salad greens until the end of December!

I love the Christmas tree lights in the background! Gardening in NC definitely has its advantages. I did a huge lettuce garden for my fall garden this year and it was a HUGE success. It is now frozen, so no more lettuce, at least for a few months. I'm going to do square foot gardening this spring and I'm working on planning--which is half the fun:)

Where do I even begin? 3. Garden

My garden has really taken off in the last few weeks. I have:

Basil: Huge! Froze a bunch yesterday, maybe will try to dry some next week

Chives: doing well. Put them in everything we eat!

Cucumbers: lots ready to harvest, what am I going to do with all of them?!?

Zucchini: almost ready

Broccoli: had one for dinner last night, others are starting to grow heads (slight caterpillar problem with these guys...)

Lettuce: almost done for the spring season. We've had salads almost every night

Onions: some ready to be cured

Tomatoes: lots of big green ones

Green Beans: flowering now

Long Beans: flowering now

Random Beans planted by Braden and Ryder: flowering now

Hot Peppers: tiny fruits now appearing

Banana Peppers: green ones just about to ripen

Bell Peppers: blooming now

Spinach: maybe the one failure...I think the seeds went in too late and now they are shaded by the giant zucchini

Bok Choi: some bolted, some ok. I think they are too hot now.

My flowers are so pretty right now as well! Blooming right now I have lots of roses (pink and red knockouts), daylilies, salvia, hostas, yellow and white black-eyed-susans, pink coneflowers, catmint, pansies (almost too hot), astilbe and veronica.

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