July 17, 2007

aerial view

I have some garden helpers who are removing the big old rhododendron at the lower right end of my garden. Its a several day project to chop it into pieces and pack them into garbage cans for removal. The bush was shading my tomatoes and potatoes quite a bit, so I finally decided it should go. It turned out to be a fun project for my garden helpers who just happened to have a new saw-type tool to try out. My dad has looked into composting rhododendrons for me and…

July 16, 2007

planting fall broccoli

I’ve decided to try planting seeds indoors for a fall crop of broccoli, since my spring broccoli was so tasty this year. I picked up a package of Green Goliath broccoli seeds and potting soil at my local hardware store. I found an old seed tray in the garage. I’ll keep the seedlings inside by a south facing window. This spring was the first time I’ve planted broccoli and even my teenage son enjoyed it. He agreed it is better than supermarket broccoli. The small plants I bought in May…

July 15, 2007

chili peppers are ripening!

Looking good! These are the hot chili peppers I grew from seed this spring. The package included a mix of five different varieties. I raised nearly 100 seedlings, gave most away and kept about 30 myself. They are in a patch next to my tomatoes and some are tucked in between my perennials. Looks like I can get my chili recipe out and start warming up the frying pan soon. Poppers… pickled martini peppers… salsa… yummy. Capsicum

July 15, 2007

after vacation

Scenes from the garden after our return from a brief vacation: (from top left) there are a couple good sized heads of broccoli, endive Natasha is heading up, garlic scapes are ready for picking, soybeans have lots of tiny buds, MANY baby zucchinis, purple podded beans have purple flowers, baby cucumbers are forming, purple pods of the Capucijner peas are drying, a June planting of romaine lettuce looks good. Also looking good are my great big potato plants, green beans hanging on the plants, pumpkin vines are several feet long,…

July 15, 2007

morning glory

Morning glory President Tyler with a pumpkin flower in the background.

July 15, 2007

tall tomatoes

Wow! We’re back from vacation and the tomato plants are enormous! Already they are 6 feet tall. Lots of pretty green tomatoes all over them. Skippy is almost lost in the tall plants. I was hoping they’d be ripe by now 🙁 Oh well… Solanum lycopersicum

July 10, 2007

vacation

We’re on vacation this week. I wonder what my garden will look like when I return. Out of control zucchinis? Ripe tomatoes? Overgrown weeds?

July 6, 2007

honeybee on borage flower

Another good use for borage – it attracts honeybees! This is the first honeybee I’ve seen in my garden this year.

July 6, 2007

garden chores

This week’s garden work included: thin the carrots, beets, kale and chard; tie up the tomato vines and the big dahlia; hill potatoes; wrap squash and cucumber stems with cheesecloth; remove fava plants and plant sunflower seeds in their place; remove the last of the arugula and radishes and plant bush beans in their place; fertilize with GardenTone.

July 5, 2007

thinned beets and carrots

I thinned my carrots and beets again. The beet greens are yummy mixed with lettuce greens. A few of the carrots were big enough to eat. Daucus carota beets (Beta vulgaris)

weeks and counting until my last spring frost

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aerial view

planting fall broccoli

chili peppers are ripening!

after vacation

morning glory

tall tomatoes

vacation

honeybee on borage flower

garden chores

thinned beets and carrots

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