aerial of my sideyard garden
A rainy dark day. A hard frost was predicted, but temps only went to about 35*F. I have removed a lot of the plants by now and a couple beds have a cover of mixed green winter manure (cover crop mix of vetch, clover, peas and rye) growing. Yesterday I harvested the last of the shell beans and cucumbers, plus nice handfuls of fresh herbs.
a beautiful gardening day
Today I cleaned up my side yard garden. What a fantastic day. Chores: – Photograph in the morning light everything that was blooming. – Photograph all the spider webs. – Harvest basil, soybeans and cucumbers. – Pull, bag and dispose of all the tomato debris. – Pull and compost the peas and stack the pea poles. – Support the garden fence better. – Trim and adjust the rose shoots. – Trim the grass/weeds between the garden beds. – Empty compost tumbler and spread onto 2 cleared beds. – Dismantle an…
garden aerial
I used to visit and revisit it a dozen times a day, and stand in deep contemplation over my vegetable progeny with a love that nobody could share or conceive of who had never taken part in the process of creation. It was one of the most bewitching sights in the world to observe a hill of beans thrusting aside the soil, or a rose of early peas just peeping forth sufficiently to trace a line of delicate green.-Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mosses from an Old Manse, 1854 My home vegetable garden…
rainy day
Yesterday, Skippy and I got caught in the rain at the garden. A nice warm rain and we just kept on weeding anyway.
wet aerial view
Wow. An empty garden. And yet another wet day. I finally got out there to weed on the 4th, which was finally a dry day. But weeding pretty much emptied the garden. Next time it dries up a bit, I have lots of seeds to plant: beans, soybeans, nasturtiums, kale, lettuce. Maybe tomorrow?
aerial
The left/top area is neglected this year – the right is doin’ good. I’m enjoying the big rambler rose on the fence as the blossoms open. Its a great year for it – an old rose called Dorothy Perkins. The blossoms get bleached to pale pink by the sun, but it is VERY dark magenta this year (no sun).
growing fast – photos of my community plot
My plants are growing very fast, but still the gardens look like mostly dirt. The potatoes are getting very big. All my asparagus plants (10) sprouted and shoots are 5-15 inches tall now. Today I filled in with dirt to the top of the bed and accidentally broke off a thin shoot. So I ate it. Absolutely delicious!!! My popcorn is up now. Two dense rows of 2 inch plants. I’m planning to transplant some to thin the rows since I have room for a third row. How exciting. I’ve…
garden aerial
Click on the photo and mouse over for plant IDs. aerial views of my home vegetable garden
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!
