Tater Wagon

Not a bad haul for only being planted in a 4 ft by 4 ft. Bed. Of course there would have been more had we not gotten into them. New taters and peas...yummy!

Time to harvest green beans

Troy and I spent the evening after work having a drink and enjoying each others company while harvesting green beans. We decided to wash, blanch, Heat seal, and freeze this bunch as we both prefer the flavor and texture of frozen green beans over canned.

What I have learned

A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.

-Gertrude Jekyll

Tassle tops

We planted "candy mountain" an early variety of corn this year. The stalks will only reach about 6 ft. tall and yet they have amazed be by tassling out before the end of July. I am already drooling and dreaming of fresh corn even though there are no signs of any ears just yet. We will be waiting patiently;-)

Sweet Carotts

We had a fabulous weekend up at priest lake....We enjoyed swimming,boating, campfire hot dogs and sand between our toes for the entire weekend. With scorching temps I thought the garden would be a goner while we played the weekend away, but when we got home we noticed that everything held in there faithfully like champs. I immediately got to work and watered all my green babies. Filled the hummingbird feeders;-)and called it a day.



This morning I awoke to the magic of the sun dancing across my beautiful, peaceful garden. It was time to sneak a few sweet carrots and pick the Chinese pea pods that dangled in the morning breeze... Life is good!

It's a jungle out there...

Everything is growing in quite nicely and the garden is looking incredible!

Knee high by the 4th of July

Our corn is growing like madness and is actually taller than our knees...I sure hope we get plenty of ears as the corn is planted in a new garden bed. The weed block fabric is helping keep those nasty weeds at bay. What a pain to cut little X's in the fabric for each corn kernel at planting time....It is definitely paying off in the long run!



Tons of green tomatoes dripping with sweet summer rain



I am loving the organic Fish fertilizer from Neptunes Harvest..The garden gets fed every other Monday along with side dressings of our own compost.

Growing

"As the Garden Grows, so does the Gardener"

Beauty in Bloom

These sweet little Iris's are blooming by the back door...

I love how dainty they are and the foliage is a lot smaller than typical Iris blades. I received a start a couple of years ago and they are starting to fill in quite nicely. Such a joy to see them in bloom!

New Garden Signs

Troy actually got a rain out day this week and we were able to team up and make some fun new signs for the garden. This way he can stop asking me "now what is planted here"? ;-)

There was a reason we hung on to those scraps of maple flooring for 10 years. It took us a while but we finally found a use for them ;-)

We left the signs untreated as we love the weathered grey look...It may take them a little while to grey but in the meantime we will enjoy them as is.

Make her giggle

Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest. ~Douglas William Jerrold, A Land of Plenty