backyard garden
I used my cell phone for panorama photos of my backyard garden. It would be really cool to have curved raised beds like these photos.
spring in my backyard garden
I haven’t posted many of my photos recently, so I’m putting together some collections. This is my backyard garden from early April until yesterday. Spring. By the end of summer, there won’t be any dirt showing.
my garden in the rain – peas, asparagus, and lettuce
The rain is cold and dreary for me, but my plants are enjoying it, it seems. Peas and asparagus are sprouting. Earlier in the week, I planted a bed with spring greens. I have several colors of lettuce, so I tried to mix it up and make a pretty bed. I hope the pattern will be nice when it grows up. The bed has lettuce, spinach, arugula, kale, escarole, bunching onions, and a few marigolds. Other things going on in my garden are some nice big…
“aerial” garden photo
I was able to get an aerial view of my “new” garden. (Actually not so new any more – this is it’s 4th year.) My husband gave me a beautiful new pruning ladder for Christmas. I was able to place it at the top off the slope to the west of the garden and shoot a photo though the branches. I’d like to follow my garden through the year from one location. I wish I could get up a bit higher, but this is the top of the slope. Not…
a bit of snow on the garden and Charley
Our first snow. It’s just a dusting and expected to turn to rain soon. I don’t have my winter bed covered yet. Soon. Everything in it is OK with the snow and our 30-32 degree temperature today. But at the end of this week it’s going to get really cold. I’ll cover it before that with both layers. Both have survived fine from last year so I will reuse them: a heavy row cover layer (I double it up) and a layer of green house plastic. Charley has his new…
today’s garden work
It seems I should be finishing up with my garden for the season, but I’m hurrying to get my winter crops set. This is what I did in the garden today. – Clean out tomato debris from my winter bed (this bed has hardware cloth dug in 8 inches around the base to deter voles and also has brackets to support the PVC hoops) – Spread compost and manure on winter bed (3 bags Black Earth compost and 2 bags composted manure) and dig it in (I dig it in…
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!
