2010 April Flower

Crookneck squash June 09

I love the way these squash plants look. You can see the little buds of flowers starting along the stem. We should be up to our noses in summer squash pretty soon!

Bell Pepper June 09

This is the second big yellow bell pepper I've picked from the same plant. I'm really impressed how much it can produce. Green, yellow, orange and red bell peppers are all just varying amounts of ripeness of the same type of pepper.

This one never even made it into the house, we just ate it up in the yard!

Baby Bell Pepper

I have a little bell pepper plant that is about a foot high and has SIX peppers on it. This one is the runt of the litter, but I needed it for todays cooking. That's a tablespoon it's sitting in! I'm not going to pick the others until they change colors.

Yellow Flower

This little potted plant spends the whole year looking like some kind of weedy grass. But once a year it puts up a couple of these beautiful flowers.

Root Harvest

We harvested these beets and carrots today. These were planted at the end of October so these represent 20 weeks from seed to harvest.

This is about half of the harvest so we have a lot more in the ground from that plant date plus another whole batch that was planted 2 weeks after this batch!

Mess O'Greens

These are half of the beet greens I harvested today.

Sanctuary!

We had a visitor to the yard this morning. Maybe she was seeking sanctuary. As the little girl next door says "grandma kills the chicken, and turns it into chicken".

Compost Potato

This potato refused to accept the defeat of being tossed into the compost bin. I moved her into a nice sunny spot in the yard today and hope she will continue to grow.

First Beets

Here is the first beet we've grown this winter.

Garden Salad

A salad entirely from my garden with romaine, beet greens, spinach, sugar peas, green onion, roma tomato and the world's tiniest carrot.

Visit to Garden January 2009

Kohlrabi, Peas, Romaine and more!

Latey vs. Snowie-Mae

Garden Tour 12-31-08

December 28 Tomatoes

We are enjoying our roma tomatoes, freshly picked in late December. They are very delicious. I keep them on the patio at night with a light on them and put them in the sunshine during the day if it's not too cold.

They have much more flavor than sweat-shop tomatoes.

The plants continue to have flowers even now so we are hopeful to have even more this winter.

First Frost Dec 27 2008

We had our first heavy freeze last night. All our buckets of water had a thick layer of ice on them. Here are my wild onions all covered with ice.

I covered the peas with a sheet and the garden with straw. They all looked fine this morning. The broccoli loves the ice so I left it uncovered.

Garden Dec 19 2008

The garden is coming along nicely. I put the shovel in the picture to show scale but then put my finger in the picture too!

The tallest peas (on the left, against the wall) were planted several weeks before the peas on the right. This should extend the harvest nicely.

The rows to the right were also planted later than the ones on the left, but the third row from the left are onions which are doing nicely. I will probably let them all grow for bulb onions rather than greens.

Peas Flowering

Baby Broccoli

My broccoli is beginning to produce!

Dew on Wheat Grass

Nature is a revelation of God;

Art a revelation of man.

-- Longfellow