Wednesday, May 30, 2012

It's Alive!! - The Vegetable Garden

Slowly but surely, I am starting to see signs of life in the vegetable garden . . . 

First there were a couple little cucumbers popping through the soil. 
(Friday, May 25)

Then onions!
(Saturday, May 26)

And then there was zucchini!
(Monday, May 28)

Today, we have lettuce!!
(Wednesday, May 30)

Cucumbers!

The cucumbers are almost ready to pop out their next set of leaves!  So exciting! 





Victoria Day Weekend

As always, Victoria Day weekend is my garden planting weekend and despite having other commitments for much of that weekend, I still managed to get my gardening mostly accomplished!

There was a lot of preparation before the garden could be planted.  Despite every year saying "Next year I will get it tilled early and not have it overgrown with weeds when I want to plant it" the vegetable garden was overgrown with weeds when it was time to plant.

It took me a couple of hours of digging to get all the weeds out and then Henry tilled it for me and I was ready to go!

On Victoria Day, I planted carrots, beets, onions, lettuce (2 kinds), cucumbers (3 kinds), zucchini, swiss chard and kale in the vegetable garden.  I also planted basil, dill, cilantro and parsley in the herb garden.
Because I was so busy leading up to my planting weekend, I hadn't had the time to buy tomato and pepper plants or seed potatoes, but they went in this past weekend.


The vegetable garden ... over grown with weeds!

Yikes!  What was I thinking?

If you ignore the weeds, they do not go away, they get bigger!

Tilled and ready to plant!  Thanks Henry!

Let's do it!

Seeds are all planted!!

I know, not much to see, but it was a nice feeling of accomplishment!

The herb garden ... also overrun with weeds.

Apparently stirring up the soil woke up a million little seeds!

Weeds gone (for now!) and seeds planted!

Tomato and pepper plants planted! 

Tomatoes in their new home!

Grow little tomato grow!

Orange pepper this year!

I think I was mistaken when I sent Henry to the store to get 10 pounds of seed potatoes, it was a lot more than I expected!!

But they are all (3 rows) tucked in tight, hope they start to grow soon!

Flower Beds - May13 - 19

Again, there isn't much to say about the flower beds.  Everything is growing nicely, even the weeds!  Aside from a bit of weeding when I have the time, I have been busy taking photos of my pretties!  Enjoy!

Columbine


Hen and Chicks (yes, I am a little bit obsessed with these guys!)

Creeping Veronica




Lots of little violas!

Vinca Minor

Bachelor Buttons

Lily Of The Valley

Lamb's Ear

Giant Allium

Iris Buds

Yellow Iris

Monday, May 7, 2012

This Weekend In the Flower Beds - May 5/6, 2012

There's not much I can say about the flower beds this week that isn't better shown in photos, so, here they are!

 
Back and Side Flower Beds

Grape Hyacinth

 Vinca Minor


     

 Tulips

 Hen and Chicks

                                Lots of Little Lilies                                         Bleeding Heart


Solomon's Seal

Dwarf Purple Iris


Ferns

Peonies