May 22, 2010

Mom and Dad’s vegetable garden

Last weekend I brought all sorts of seedlings up to my parents for their garden. Tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, eggplants, pumpkins, winter squash, summer squash … We had a wonderful time planting together. The seedlings we already planted are doing well too.

May 17, 2010

aerial

Its been a great weekend for garden work. I planted a new cutting garden to the right of my cold frame. One of my favorite roses is in the center, Mr Lincoln, a deep red hybrid tea. Also in this plot are, blue summer asters, yellow calendulas, mixed giant zinnias, pink sensation cosmos, Canterbury bells, feverfew, pink echinacea, and a couple types of lavender. I also found my giant orange dahlia tubers that I saved in the back of the basement and planted them in the flower plot them today.…

April 23, 2010

my side yard garden

Lots of chores after returning home to my gardens: – To all side yard beds, added composted, turned and buried irrigation lines – Potatoes planted in far left bed: All Blue, Cobbler, Green Mountain and Butte Russet. I’ll leave the irrigation line above the soil for now in this bed. – Marigolds planted along front of cold frame – Spread old salt hay between beds (not quite enough – I’d like to get more) – Admired all the green in the cold frame

March 9, 2010

March aerial

A garden full of plans! Soon it will look alive and new!

January 9, 2010

my plot in the snow

December 15, 2009

my frozen garden

All the greens are frozen now. No more escarole or bok choy. Only my little patch of kale is still edible.

November 22, 2009

garden aerial

Deep shadows. Piles of compost on the beds. Fallen maple leaves. Still growing: Sage, parsley, oregano, collard greens, celeriac and marigolds. The dahlia still hasn’t frozen down. (Lower right of photo.) We haven’t had a hard frost up next to the house yet. I usually wait til is dies back to dig the tubers, but will probably do this today anyway.

November 3, 2009

photos of my garden plot

escarole and winter radish kale, fava beans, Boston lettuce, red romaine and spinach asparagus, red cabbage and parsnips savoy cabbage and mixed fall greens My raised beds are beginning to look clean and organized again after the profusion of plants that overtook them this summer. The garlic is planted and covered with a layer of salt hay. Most of the old plant debris has been added to the compost bin. I layered compost and fresh manure on a couple beds and seeded cover crops in this. Its coming up nicely…

October 29, 2009

rows of fall crops

When Skippy and I visited Waltham Fields, we walked through the CSA fields as well as the community plots and experimental station. These are photos of the CSA fields. Rows and rows of colors and textures. The last crops, enjoying the late fall sun. Local farms are finishing up their seasons now. Last crops are roots (carrots, potatoes, parsnips) and hardy greens (cabbage, cauliflower, escarole and kale). Lots of collards too – a southern green, often grown in very warm areas because it resists bolting. Similar to cabbage, but a…

October 22, 2009

a beautiful day in the garden

Today’s harvest is a big pile of carrots (Bolero and Oxheart), the last of my beets (White Detroit and Lutz) and a few more potatoes. My garlic is all planted. Lots of it. Four orders of garlic is a LOT! I’m looking forward to a big harvest next summer. I mulched it with salt marsh hay that has saved well for a second winter now. And I finished up composting and planting cover on one bed. The corn bed, where squash will go next year. Three more to go. I…

weeks and counting until my last spring frost

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