Our Garden
July 26, 2016
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| This is the pile of dirt I've been collecting for a new raised-bed. Dh hasn't put the frame up yet, but I planted bunches of marigold flowers that had taken over our "tomato/celery/kale bed." So far, they are all accepted the move. |
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| Our Swiss Chard is coming along. The volunteer acorn squase keep growing leaves that grow over the chard, and every few days I have to come and cut off those leaves to maintain their light exposure. |
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| Speaking of acorn squash---here is our first one! |
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| We are still harvesting a lot of lettuce's for our salads, but I've had to buy some at the store as well... I should have bought a LOT more lettuce plants/seeds. Michele Z. said the lettuce seeds I planted around June 30th wouldn't grow--but, they are! She also said in August I could plant more (new) lettuce seeds and they would grow for our fall eating. I better get on that! August is about here! |
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| These are the June 30th seed crop...the light green lettuce...doing great! |
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| I'm showing you the bald spots...where our kohlrabi use to be, but have been harvested already. Now we just have some tomato plants in that back spot--which we are eating now. |
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| This is the first week of red tomatoes for Dh's salad! |
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| Our broccolli is coming along...slowly! |
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| This bed is only peppers--maybe 3-4 different kinds of peppers. Dh has been getting some peppers in his salads for 2-3 weeks now, but I did take some small ones at first. |
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The 'tomato/celery/kale' garden bed is still over-stuffed; even though I removed gobs of marigold plants! At least some of the celery and kale can breath a bit better now. I should probably remove some more marigolds...I filled quite a few pots, as well as the 'to-be' raised bed.
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Here are the seven pots I've filled with the excess marigolds! They all seem to be accepting the move as well.
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| You can actually see the dirt, from my removal of the marigolds. The celery seems like it is starting it's decline---I seem to have missed the sweet spot of prime eating. It is still okay, but not as tender as I hoped. You can also see the kale--last weekend I mixed up a LOT of kale chips, which were very good and repeatable. |
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| Here is our messy herb/lettuce/marigold bed. We used some lettuce seed packets from our library's seed share, but some of the lettuce had a bitter taste that I wasn't sure about. There is still some spinach and good lettuce coming up in there, but I need to weed out that weird lettuce soon. I think I'll plant some new lettuce there. I'd like to transplant some of those over-zealous marigolds out of the bed, so I can use more space for eat-able foods. I haven't had too much trouble with bugs, which was WHY I had planted so much marigold! |
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| Our precious chickens have wandered into our garden a few times this week, and I had to chase them out. They haven't been much a problem...luckily! |
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| The chickens are always wandering around the outside fence of the garden. I wrapped a metal cage around my grape plant that is planted on the outside of the fence, and they leave it alone. I don't mind them pecking at the outside leaves. |
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| The profile pix of the tomato plants...really tall! |
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Why am I sharing this well lid? I found five baby rabbits in a little hoe there this week. I kept putting back one wild baby (2x) this week. When a storm was coming I got out one of my umbrella to shield the nest; but apparently the rabbit mom didn't like the umbrella and moved the babies by the morning.
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Now you know why I have a huge umbrella in my yard! I've moved it around now that the bunnies are gone. I guess I could mow again--- I had such a great reason not to mow--I was just "protecting" those bunnies! But, now I don't know where those cute bunnies are and am afraid of finding them the wrong way.
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| This little side garden is doing okay too. I'm still getting a little bit of lettuce, but which it was more. The black raspberry plant we brought from Indiana has some berries getting close to ripping. |
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A Painted Lady butterfly found our ragged cone-flower. This week I have seen so many butterflies---especially those yellow Tiger Swallow-tale butterfly.
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