garden aerial
I took this photo in the middle of the August full sun with the sprinklers going. Too much for my camera. I will get another photo soon in dimmer light. What a glorious time of year!
garden aerial
This week the cute little bunny ate my beans almost to nothing – so I now have a new fence made of chicken wire two and a half feet high all around my garden. I didn’t realize those little rabbits can get through fence smaller than 2 inches and can jump a foot or more!!! Amazing. Its a good year for bunnies and a good year for my garden. The hot weather is great for the basil and eggplants. The cukes are producing well and my giant pumpkin vines are…
flowers in my vegetable garden
A mix of weed, annual and vegetable flowers are decorating my community plot. The blue ones are bachelor buttons (seeds from Botanical Interests) that I planted two years ago. They self-seeded this year and are big beautiful plants already. The white flowers are bladder campion weeds. There are also marigolds, violas and johnny jump-up’s. The potatoes and fava beans are budded and will pop open any day now. Lemon thyme and a pink old rose are in full bloom. Other flowers are yet to come. I planted nasturtium seeds this…
my plot
On Saturday, I spent most of the day gardening at my community plot. It was warm and overcast. With a week of rain arriving the next day, it was a perfect day to transplant seedlings and plant carrot seeds. Skippy hung out under the lilac tree and I: – finished preparing the soil in the last 3 beds – weeded the garlic – spread salt hay in the rest of my paths – planted 3 types of carrots seeds: Mokum, Kyoto Red, and Bolero – transplanted a perennial flower called…
a year of vegetable garden photos
April 31 and April 9, 2011 March 20 and February 1, 2011 Jan 12, 2011 and December 24, 2010 November 21 and October 6, 2010 August 28 and August 5, 2010 May 30 and April 22, 2010 As my garden starts to take shape for another season, I looked back on last year’s photos. The garden was very shady last year (that backyard tree just keeps growing!) and I had all my tomatoes, potatoes and peppers at home following the late blight the previous summer. Not good crops for partial…
my side yard vegetable garden
I continued today with working on cleaning up my side yard garden. The rose on the fence always need a lot of trimming in the spring. I’m gradually clearing old leaves and last year’s vegetable debris from the beds. Also removing weeds. The dandelions are especially vigorous this year.
This is a journal of my vegetable gardens. Skippy thinks the garden is his, even though I do all the work. We're located near Boston, in USDA zone 6. I have bees, chickens, fruit trees and berry bushes, too. I use all sustainable organic methods and strive to grow all of my family's vegetables myself. -Kathy
weeks and counting until my last spring frost
My garden this week
Skippy’s vegetable of the month – Egyptian walking onions!
