garden aerial
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Click on the photo and mouse over for plant IDs. aerial views of my home vegetable garden
mystery garden rose
This is another thing I found in my plot. This rose was a tiny plant last spring when I got my new community plot. The leaves were so pretty, I let it grow. But sadly it had no flowers last year. So this spring I decided to remove it. As I picked up my shovel I noticed – buds! Now I’m curious to see the flowers. Maybe a beautiful old fashioned heirloom? Double blossoms and heavy scent? Light shell pink or deep magenta? Its probably an just an overgrown root…
garden updates and to do list
Updates:– Fava beans have sprouted– All 10 recently planted asparagus have sprouted– Carrots are sprouting well– Sunday I planted parsnips in spaces between garlic, also radish and carrots– I removed flower stalks from the rhubarb– I’m starting to hill Norland, Green Mtn and Red Gold potatoes – Russets are growing slower– Sparrow chicks are peeping in bird house, no peeps from chickadee house yet– Squirrels ate a lot of my peas, but half of what I planted are 3-5 inches tall– Also I forgot to use inoculant and this may…
cold spring weather
Brrr! We’re having a run of cool days. At midday, its 54*F in my yard and will go to low 40’s tonight. Frost warnings are up for the north and western part of the state. Bbrrrr. But then things are supposed to warm up nicely. Highs in 80’s – lows in upper 50’s for remainder of the week. I’ve been keeping my warm weather plants inside under lights for the past couple weeks. I had them outside but the chilis didn’t seem happy. So now my melons, cucumbers, squashes, chilis…
rusty garden finds
I have been finding all sorts of things buried in my garden. In addition to happiness and potatoes, these are photos of long ago tools. Some are abandoned tools from fairly recent gardeners, I think others are old items from the farm here 100 years ago. The space our Victory Garden plots are on was used for livestock and crops prior to 1950. I have hung these items on my fence or displayed them on rocks. Kind of like garden art or old family photos. My favorite is the enormous…
baby red romaine lettuce
Its definitely lettuce weather! I’m enjoying watching the plants grow. They love the cool spring rains. I have about 10 lettuce varieties. This is red romaine. One of the types in my Valentine mix of red lettuces. Other varieties I have growing are Prizehead (my favorite), red oak leaf (another favorite), broad leaf escarole, Bibb, Boston, Merveille, and a couple other frilly red leaved types.lettuce (Lactuca sativa)
alpine strawberry
I dug up my 5 year old alpine strawberry plant and split it into 5 plants. I now have a whole row! They make sweet tiny strawberries all season. The first berries are forming now. alpine strawberries (Fraises des bois)
Happy Thursday! This photo of our back patio is from last Friday evening. We are having many nice days for enjoying the outside. The bleeding hearts (dicentra), viburnums, violets and lamium are in full bloom. No fresh veggies from my garden on the grill yet, but that will come. I checked the chickadee box just to the upper left of this photo and she is in there and doing a good job of tending eggs, I assume. Since I haven’t seen any birds near the box in a week, I…
potato sprouts
Lots of spuds coming up! Exciting. As they grow up, I fill in the trenches with dirt until the trenches are filled in, always leaving the top leaves of the plants uncovered and in the sun.potatoes (Solanum tuberosum)
green rhubarb
I will add photos here soon. I had planned to photograph the stalks I brought home, but my mother-in-law loves it so much she ate it all before I got a shot. I’ve never seen green rhubarb before and had to look it up. Yes, its “ripe”. Its just a green variety. Rhubarb comes in red, green and all shades in between. And color doesn’t relate to sweetness. These green rhubarbs are all over our community garden. They must be the most prolific variety for us. Everyone shares the plants…
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!
