September 26, 2008

wet garden

Nothing but rain in sight in our forecast. I hope my garden doesn’t float away. But then there’s not very much left in it anyway. I have some great kale, which I am really enjoying. A few tomatoes and peppers trickle in. I am just now starting to pick a small planting of green beans. A few fall shell beans are ripening too. I have some odd radish I’ll have to hardest and try soon. I have parsley and garlic chives. And my gourds are still growing. I planted a…

September 12, 2008

aerial of my home garden

aerial views of my home vegetable garden

August 14, 2008

April to August

Back in April of this year, I was assigned a plot at my local community garden. A high point for me. A new garden is an empty canvas, a new adventure, and a lot of work. Now its August. Four months have gone by very fast. It seems like a good time to put together a series of photos and see what’s what. Late June and early July were a time of rapid growth, lush and green. I was harvesting nice heads of lettuce, big radish, lots of fava beans,…

August 12, 2008

aerial of my community plot

This is as high up as I can reach with my camera to get an “aerial” photo. Its another dark wet day and so I did my best to enhance the lighting with PhotoShop. How about those ugly tomato plants. Arrgh! Not many leaves left. Septoria leaf spot is way out of control this year. I continue to dig potatoes from the open area at the right. Lots of them! I have a small area where I have dug all the potatoes and so I planted radish and carrots seeds…

August 8, 2008

aerial view of my home garden

As usual, my garden path is wet since yet another rain storm is moving in this afternoon. I can’t remember when I have watered the garden this summer. A very wet year! I have lots of fall seedlings growing in pots now for the empty patches. Mostly greens will go here: arugula, endive, spinach, mesclun mix and many lettuce varieties. Can you spot my pumpkin under the big leaves at the right? Its just starting to turn orange. I’ll have to take its picture soon. The healthy patch of blue-green…

June 11, 2008

my shady home garden

The boards between the vegetables patches are my new thing this year. They are slats from old pallets. They make good walkways. I used to just jump the 3.5 ft beds, but this year I find I am ending up stepping on plants instead of clearing the bed. I think the boards look nice. I went ahead and uncovered my brassicas (no big deal – that’s just the kale and broccoli in the center of the photo). I had them covered to avoid cabbage worms and flea beetles. I got…

June 6, 2008

garden in the rain

We’ve gotten stuck in a wet weather pattern for most of this week. I’m curious to check out my rain gauge at my community plot. Most of my vegetables love this weather and are growing like crazy! If I skip a day of going by my plot, I appalled at how much plants have grown. My potato plants are enormous! And the peas. The favas, onions and carrots seem to enjoy it too.

June 5, 2008

home garden aerial

Its another damp day. I always like how bright the garden greens look in the rain. aerial views of my home vegetable garden

May 29, 2008

evening shadows

(I’m working on rolling that rock out of my garden…)

May 13, 2008

“aerial” view of my plot

Again I survived perching on the tall thin tree stump for an aerial view of my new community garden plot. A few plants are now starting to grow. I have planted seeds for fava beans, carrots and parsnips. Also onion sets and potatoes. Today I transplanted some small beets, lettuce and onions that I raised from seed in pots under lights at home. I think everything in my plot will be from seed this year.

weeks and counting until my last spring frost

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