Category Archives: garden

Here’s the garden patch way back in the spring.

Here’s the garden patch once I finally got off my butt and threw a few things in there.

Here it is now although now means a couple of days ago. I picked all the peas in the lower right and yanked the plants.

Earlier I did a lot of tough love on the sunflowers but not tough enough. It’s so hard for me to pull stuff out. I like to give everything a chance. But between the apples and the sunflowers the tomatoes are awfully crowded.

A couple of the tomato plants are tall and have lots of yellow flowers but I don’t even see a tiny green tomato yet.

I’ve still got some greens although stuff is bolting. I have a volunteer squash of some kind. The raspberries have finally slowed down. I need to find my notebook and see if it’s time to start clearing out dead wood yet.

The potatoes are going like crazy. This represents only a partial harvest. I still have at least three other potato areas that need digging plus I think I spotted a plant hiding in the raspberries.

I love digging potatoes. It’s like magic. You pull up a tired looking green plant. You stick your shovel carefully into the dirt and turn it over. Magic: potatoes. I made a potato salad today and ate about a pound for lunch.

I started the lemon cucumbers on the windowsill. Yes, kind of late. My cucumbers have been sorry for the last three years so it’s just a formality at this point.

I planted these guys yesterday and now they’re wilting in the fairly mild heat. Toughen up my pretties!

I started pumpkins on the windowsill, too. They’ve been in the ground at least three weeks. I also have some volunteer pumpkins that are doing fantastic. This vine has three little yellow balls and it’s shooting across the yard.

Last Sunday I was all excited because I found a few berries and it looked like a few more would be getting ripe soon.

This weekend was another one where all the time got away from me and there I was doing my 30 minute gardener routine. I saw some berries out of the corner of my eye and I ran out there before dinner to see how many I could pick.

I quickly filled up my bowl and had to run back for the second container. That’s all from one week. There’s a ton more out there.

I need to start planning berry goodies.

I won’t write any more about snails but know that I could. A lot more.

The tomatoes that I grew from seeds have been put out in the yard into the walls of water. I forgot to make a note to remind me what kind I saved. Probably whatever produced the best which was either Stupice or Early Girls or possibly Romas. I’m going to buy a couple more plants from the farmers market. I think I’m going to skip the more exotic varieties as they never seem to produce many tomatoes and the ones they do seem to go bad more quickly than I can deal with them.

Currently I have what looks like an abundance of potatoes. Since last fall whenever I found wrinkly potato in the back of the bin I ran out and buried it and now they’re everywhere. There are tons and tons of raspberry blossoms. I’ve got mesclun greens coming in. The apple tree looks loaded. I’m going to have to thin some of it out or hit my head on low drooping branches all summer. Peas are growing like crazy. The sunflower sprouts are everywhere. It’s looking good out there given how neglectful I’ve been. I’ve been preoccupied with other projects and the garden has been close to dead last in the priority list.

The pumpkins sort-of slipped my mind. I’m going to start in the house this weekend.

I don’t think that other photo really captures how pretty it is so I tried again. This isn’t much better but it’s the best I can do with my cheapass cameras and my skill set.