20 posts tagged “gardening”
Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the first garden tomato of our summer - in JULY. That's the cute little thing nestled in my husband's paw. We ate it during a canoe trip this afternoon. All I can say is: MORE. I want more! And I want them RED!
My (spear) mint is a ghost of its former self. It's big and bushy potted plant and has almost no taste. It's been regularly rained on and I wondered if that might be the culprit. It looks fine, but has no real taste.
Aaaargh! Any ideas for fixing this? It was aromatic a few weeks before, in drier times. However, the plant was too small to harvest at that time.
Thanks all!
I'm a bit tuckered out after mowing and hedging the lawn. I went over it first with a regular lawn mower, then a weed whacker to get at the parts the mower couldn't reach. Then I got a hand-clipper and finished off the parts that the weed whacker couldn't get to. It's looking mighty nice.
The roses are particularly happy. I have three bushes, all with lots of buds and lots of flowers. They're happy little campers.
I'd formerly identified the red flower as a single, or shrub, rose. I wandered into the gardening store where my sister had placed the order and was told that she had planted several rose bushes, at my sister's request.
I saw this, for the first time, today. Roses on my rose bush! There's a slight scent, too. Wonderful.
Here are a few more pictures of the garden overall. Still needs a good weeding, some mulch and a mowed lawn, but hopefully that will happen sometime this weekend.
The vegetable garden is coming in, too. Here are my green beans:
I put in another round of veggies, the last for at least the time being. The front yard is coming into bloom and looking prettier every day. I still have to lay mulch, but the bulk of it is done. I transplanted some mint to a larger pot and it'll be much happier now. Watered everything down, probably just in time for the next rain storm.
Here's the whole front yard in its greening glory!
The pansies are extremely colorful this time of year.
Here are some veggie pictures now:
More later. Let me know if you can identify the red flower!
Topsoil! Loam! Black, lovely dirt and now it's in where it belongs! The trench my hubby dug two weeks ago is now filled to the brim with brand new soil. We've filled in depressions and patches in the front lawn and garden and built up the area around the front bushes.
Pretty! Hopefully I'll be able to plan the basil, strawberries and green beans that are patiently sitting in planters or seed packages. Yesssssssss!
The best part? Cheap. We got one cubic yard of dirt, delivered, from a landscaper this afternoon for a grand total of $40.00. My husband shoveled it into a wheelbarrow and off we went. All done. Time for veggies and flowers!
Sun. Blue sky. Puffy, white clouds. Warm, almost hot, during the day. Cool, almost cold, at night. Perfect.
And you know what else?
My spinach just broke ground!!!! Just saw them this early evening, tiny little sprouts poking their brave little heads above-ground for the first time. It just happened now. There was nothing there this morning.
Yahooo!!!!
Sun! Two days of sun! I can't believe it. Could spring/summer finally be here. Everything's fresh and full of color, including the sky, which is a brilliant blue with white, puffy clouds. Gosh, how I've missed that!
My front porch likes it, too:
My husband began a garden project yesterday afternoon, to my utter surprise. He's been asking off and on if I'd like some expanded room for the vegetable garden that we dug out and re-soiled several years ago. There some sunny land right next to it, that's currently grown over with forsythia bushes and weeds. Well, yesterday he started digging away, even hauling an axe out of the basement to chop at the rather large root ball from the old, woody forsythia. He's now taking the soil to his parents house to dump. When he's finished excavating, he'll get a pile of new, fresh top soil and our expanded garden will be for real. Wow!
The land we have available for cultivation is very small. The vegetable garden is a long, narrow strip next to the house. It's relatively sunny so sun-hungry plants do well there. While we were at it, I took the opportunity to add a few petunias to the recently worked-on front yard, also plant some flowers from seed. Then I took some pictures. It's still in the developmental stages, so it's more dirt than anything else, but at least I can see the progress!
Well! I spent the early part of the day working in the yard with my condo co-owner's new woman friend. Our co-owner lost his wife to cancer about two years ago, so I'm glad to see he's moving on with his life. He's a doctor and his lady friend is a nurse practitioner. They're both in their 50s. Hurray!
I heard a commotion outside this morning, to see our neighbor scratching in the dirt of his front yard garden with the above-mentioned woman next to him. One thing led to another and we ended up doing a once-over on the entire front - his and ours. The most ambitious project was cutting down a privet hedge that was old and very woody. We went at it with a saw and heavy-duty clippers and it now looks like this:
And, since I think it's finally now warm enough, I planted my spinach in the side yard! No, you can't see it yet, but it's in there at last:
Two of the Iris my friend Rosie sent me (the bulldog who got me a new Palm Pilot, remember her?) are back and fanning out in green leaves. It's a bit too early for flowers yet, but we'll see if any decide to show.
Aaaah, yes, my garden. How I've missed it!
