Tuesday, May 25, 2010

A walk around the yard

Come join Roy and I on our morning rounds. We do this every morning, and I do what needs to be done in the garden while he focuses on his business and sniffing all the things that happened during the night. Walking out my back door, this is my Minnesota Alanon Lupine. A fellow alanon gave me the seeds when I lived in Mn. I also have wild flowers sown here.

The beans. I have 5 rows, hoping to freeze (or can) some for the winter.
The hot peppers. Dave made the boxes deeper this year, and hauled in more dirt. He spent a month of weekends working to make the garden better.

Tomatoes with a row of radishes in the middle. The radishes will be gone soon, they are almost ready to harvest.

A baby bean. Babies are so precious, even baby plants.

Onions, leek, and garlic.

The little grassy looking plants are baby leeks. This is a project, to have onions year 'round. So, I'll be sowing new seed in from time to time.

Another project, to have greens year 'round. This is lettuce, chard, cilantro, and spinach. I also sowed more lettuce and collard greens recently.

Bell peppers, brussel sprouts, cukes, and yellow crooknecks. The brussel sprouts had to be squeezed in, they were a gift from friend. If everything grows well, this will be crowded. This is a new longer box Dave made from what ever we had laying around this spring. I love it.

A baby cucumber.

And the neighbor's golden rain tree as seen from our garden.

A Walk around the Yard, continued.

The plum tree


The apple tree

The pear tree

The peach tree

The peach leaf curl---this is a fungus that occurs during wet cold springs. It does not make me happy. Neither has the wet, cold spring.

A volunteer baby pumpkin

Zucchini and pumpkin planted here.

Don't know what this is, but I like it.

And this is the only thing I can grow on this hill. Volunteer trees. My own Christmas tree lot.