Friday, June 3, 2011

May 28/29 - Vegetable Garden

I am happy and excited that most of my seeds were at least starting to come up when I arrived home from Brownie camp on Sunday!

Zucchini and a few cucumbers are starting to pop their little leaves through the soil.
Zucchini

Potatoes are doing much better than last year, all but two or three hills are up and looking great!

Baby potato! 

Lettuce, kale and swiss chard are all growing quickly, but not quickly enough for my bunnies!

The babiest of all baby lettuces!

And soon, we will have green onions . . . well, maybe not soon, but they are growing!

Onions

The carrots, beets and parsley are all being a little on the shy side, but I'm not at all concerned, they are always a little slower to make their first appearance!

Over in the herb garden, aside from the grass and weeds, the only thing thriving is the chives.  Getting it emptied out and fixed up is a priority after our vacation.  I really want to get the herbs that I actually growing again seeing as the only one that seems to have survived the winter and grass roots is the one I never use.  Not even sure why I planted chives!

Chives

Chive flower








May 28/29 - Flower Beds

Another quiet week in my gardening life, but yet again, I am almost a week behind on my post . . . not sure how that always happens!  Last week, I was at Brownie camp from Friday evening until Sunday afternoon, so my flower beds got neglected.  

However, they are doing well and don't have a lot of weeds, so it isn't a big deal.  Next weekend, I will have to make time to weed them throughly before we leave on holidays, but for now, they are looking pretty good!

Back Garden

Side Garden
 Side Garden
Side Garden

Side Garden

Tuesday, May 24, 2011

May 21/22 - Flower Photos

As always, here are some pics of my flowers and plants from this past week . . . enjoy!

Columbine

Creeping Veronica (Saturday)

Hen and Chicken

Giant Allium (Saturday)

Another Hen and Chicken

And another Hen and Chicken

Solomon's Seal

Iris Buds

Tulip

Tulip

Creeping Veronica (Sunday)

Lilies!!  I love lilies!!

Giant Allium (Sunday)

Johnny Jump Ups . . . this is all one plant with different blossoms!

Columbine, almost ready to open.

My jungle of ferns!

Monday, May 23, 2011

May 21/22 - Flower Beds

On Sunday, I finally had time to do some much needed weeding in the flower gardens.  They were a mess from two or three weeks on neglect.  There was lots of weeding to be done, but it looks so much better now.  I am so happy with how everything is doing.  

There are a couple of empty spaces, one used to be a daylily that didn't come back this year and I'm not sure what used to be in the other spot.  But it means I have space for some new additions!  I planted a few new liattrice bulbs that I got from Vesey's in hopes of getting some new colours.

 Back Garden, before weeding!
  Back Garden, before weeding!
 Side Garden

 Side Garden

  Back Garden, after weeding!
 Back Garden, after weeding!

 Side Garden, after weeding!

Henry surprised me by telling me that he wants me to extend this part of the side garden to include the area where the grass is longer!  Yeah, more flowers!  And another project!

May 21/22 Vegetable Garden

Saturday was vegetable garden day here!  I was determined to get as much as I could done this weekend and I am quite happy with the results.

Henry tilled the whole garden again as I edged the one side that hadn't been done the last time.  After he tilled, he put in the edging down the last side.  Then he took Liam to Grandma's house so that I could plant in peace!

I took my time to plant all my seeds, taking time out to enjoy the beautiful weather we were having.  Potatoes (red and white), carrots, onions, beets, lettuce, swiss chard, parsley, cucumber, zucchini and dill are all planted.  

Hopefully this week I will get a chance to go buy tomato, pepper and broccoli plants and get them planted too, so that the garden will be done!

The garden before we started Saturday morning.
Tilled, edged and ready for planting.

 Seeds, onions and potatoes all ready to be planted!
Potatoes couldn't even wait to be planted to start growing!
Lying on the ground under the tree, taking a little break!

 All planted!!  
Can you see the little row markers?  It really is planted!!