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.…

May 16, 2010

pea flowers

I planted 4 varieties and the first to bloom is Cascadia. An enation-resistant Northwest bred snap pea variety. (What on earth is enation???)

May 16, 2010

crimson flowered fava beans

My fava beans are starting to bloom! These are the crimson flowered ones from Dan at Urban Veggie Garden Blog in Toronto. I am so excited to see these bright flowers. So for, most are just budded. I’m sure I will get better photos of these later.

May 14, 2010

what birds are these?

I always like to get confirmation on my bird identification. What do you think these are? An oriole and maybe a pair of song sparrows?

May 14, 2010

new plot progress

I’m enjoying watching the new plots take shape as their new gardeners get to work. Skippy and I walked around the Community Gardens yesterday and took a bunch of pictures of the progress.

May 12, 2010

frosted peas

My pea plants got nipped a bit by the frost last night. The edge leaves on the most exposed area look singed. The frost also got my little marigold seedlings that I had planted out. I don’t think they will survive. I have more at home and will have to replace them. Everything else was fine: broccoli, onions, cabbage, radish, fava beans and carrots. I think this will be our last frost. Its a late one this year.

May 12, 2010

bird sightings

I’ve seen some wonderful birds this week. American Woodcock, Rose-breasted Grosbeak, Eastern Bluebird and the first Baltimore Orioles were at the garden this week. The woodcock was a real treat. I saw this bird at dusk, just as we finished assigning the last plots at 8:30 last week. He settled down in the mowed grass, looking like a misplaced shorebird the size of a robin. Too bad I didn’t have my camera with me, but don;t know if I could have gotten a good shot anyway. (next time….)

May 11, 2010

transplanting

I am transplanting my tomatoes, peppers and eggplant seedlings to bigger pots. It seems the weather will be too cool for planting out for a week of so, at least. SO – everything gets to move into big pots. I am trying to figure out what I can do with all these seedlings. My parents have reserved theirs, and my brother says he wants some. I just was invited to talk at the NOAA Fisheries Environmental Fair (Wednesday, May 19 in Gloucester), so this may be a good place to…

May 11, 2010

new work on the new plots

Its been a very chilly and windy weekend, but there is evidence of work in at least 3 of the new plots. Two fences are up and one plot has a nice trench around the edge. There is also a lot of work on newly assigned old plots in the back. Everything is looking good!

weeks and counting until my last spring frost

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