Son John was on the roof of the new shed today, trimming some shingles, so I tossed the camera up to him and asked him to take a few pictures while he was up there in the clouds. It still wasn't high enough to get a shot of the east fence garden. None of my photos show off that garden very well, with its tomatoes, peppers, cabbages, cauliflower, broccoli, Chinese parsley, shallots, garlic, basil, cucumbers, marigolds and nasturtiums. It's hidden by the east garden's carrots, beets, dill, cauliflower, cabbage, broccoli, peppers, nasturtiums, lettuce, parsnips, onions, parsley, bush beans, potatoes and peas.
*Click on photos to enlarge.
That's as aerial as I can get.Back on the ground......
I picked two heads of cabbage today. I kept the one that weighed 2 pounds, and gave the 1-1/2 pound head to my neighbor, Pat. They are just beautiful little heads, no worm or insect damage at all! The leaves (even the outer leaves) are pristine.
A nice bunch of carrots for our dinner. The Imperator are the best, I'll not bother planting the multi-colored ones again. The yellow carrots are good, but the purple ones are rather ugly, and the white ones have a really hard core and most of them go to seed before they can mature.We've been eating the Pickled Beets I made last week, and I do like this recipe better than the one I blogged about last year. They aren't too sweet or too sour, they're just right. Mr. H hates beets, but loves these pickled beets. I'll be making them again this week.
I've begun putting sugar snap peas in the freezer, as they are giving us more than we can eat each picking. The regular peas are just now beginning to show me a few pods. Our weather has cooled down to the high 70s again, so maybe the peas still have a chance.
I'm loving my garden right now. The peppers, cucumbers, melons and crookneck squash are all in bloom, the raspberries are beginning to show some color, the beans are forming on the vines, the nasturtium blossoms are beginning to peek out from under their canopy of leaves, and the major bug attacks seem to be over (for now). Bees are buzzing, and worms are wiggling. All is good.
I've begun putting sugar snap peas in the freezer, as they are giving us more than we can eat each picking. The regular peas are just now beginning to show me a few pods. Our weather has cooled down to the high 70s again, so maybe the peas still have a chance.
I'm loving my garden right now. The peppers, cucumbers, melons and crookneck squash are all in bloom, the raspberries are beginning to show some color, the beans are forming on the vines, the nasturtium blossoms are beginning to peek out from under their canopy of leaves, and the major bug attacks seem to be over (for now). Bees are buzzing, and worms are wiggling. All is good.
Your garden looks so nice and neat! I like how you placed your beds at an angle from the fence, adds a nice dimension to that space.
ReplyDeleteThe carrots look so good!!! Hope that they tasted even better! My carrots just started sprouting the other day. Yeah!
Granny, thanks for the award. It's my very first... I'll have a chance to read the instructions and post it hopefully tomorrow.
Hugs... your gardening friend in Wyoming.
Granny, I love your aerials to see your slanted beds, but I also like your ground pictures because they show how lush everything is. I'm still in awe that you can have everything like peas AND squash growing at the same time. I have real carrot envy between you and EG.
ReplyDeleteToni & Ribbit, I angled the beds in the north garden so I could have a better view of them from my kitchen. I'd have had more room (and could have added a bed) if I'd put them in straight, but visually it just wasn't as attractive, looking at the ends of the beds.
ReplyDeleteToni, you're deserving of awards, you've worked so hard and accomplished so much. Besides being one of the friendliest bloggers around!
The cabbage and carrots look superior! You certainly got an early start on both of those crops to have them at that point already! Good work! I just harvested some very baby carrots today - first ones for 2009 and they are no where near that big yet.
ReplyDeleteThe aerial pics are fun and give a nice overview of the garden. However, I can assure you I will not be doing the same as I am not good with heights.
Dang, Granny! Those shots give your garden (that's twice as big as mine!) a whole different appearance. It's alot bigger than I imagined, and your stuff is growing like crazy.....Only a 1 lb. lead for me now (whimper...)
ReplyDeleteWOW your beds are OVERFLOWING with greens! Makes my garden look so empty and pathetic :(
ReplyDeleteLoving your layout though :D You can totally have chickens in that fenced off spot in the back corner!
KitsapFG, maybe the cabbage moths took pity on me this year because of the leaf miner damage on my beets! This is the first I have ever grown without the hovering "pretty white butterflies", lol. My carrots just took off the past two weeks. I was beginning to think they'd have no roots, just gorgeous tops.
ReplyDeleteI may get on the house roof to try for an over all photo. I'm still not sure I could get it all in one picture. Probably if I got on my neighbor's roof!
EG...you still hold a big lead square foot for square foot! I hate to see a grown redneck cry ;-)
ReplyDeleteCynthia, that corner belongs to my dogs. That's where they antagonize the neighbor's dogs. They must have their fun! Actually, I might have to move tomato buckets back there....Mr. H is complaining he can't mow around them now.
ReplyDeleteYour yard always looks so neat and tidy, you've done a great job on it. I should do an aerial as well, I have a second floor window right above the garden. Many of your crops are well ahead of mine. I need to bit the bullet and just plant next year. Nice to hear about the melon blooms already!!!
ReplyDeleteDan, if I'd known I was going to have aerials, I'd have mowed the lawn! I wish I had a second floor, it would be much easier than a roof!
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ReplyDeleteYour garden looks so beautiful!
I want a garden as big as yours and I want to grow carrots like you.
Liisa
Liisa, I want your pretty garden and your patio! I want Sungold tomatoes like yours. And cucumbers for Mr. H!
ReplyDeleteGreat shots. And those cabbage are WOW! I'm growing some variety carrots myself for the kids, but I think good old orange will win the day in the end.
ReplyDeleteWow, you have so much good stuff to eat from your garden. I sometimes wish I had a much longer growing season. We JUST got out of the 50's and low 60's. My tomatoes haven't grown an inch! Looks like none for me this year. :(
ReplyDeleteI love your aerial shots especially the slanted beds. My beds are slanted too, but I did it for purely practical reasons. The beds are laid out to go east-west. The beds are squished between a couple sets of trees and I wanted the plants to get as much sun as possible. The upper beds get little enough sun as it is and most of it from the west.
ReplyDeleteSuch a nice harvest. My cabbage is about three inches across right now. I pulled out some carrots today. They are finally starting to get big enough to eat, so I weighed the first batch. Before I was just eating a little slip of a root when I thinned them. Next week I might have some full size carrots. Maybe, but probably not as many as you've got in your hand.
"Toni, you're deserving of awards, you've worked so hard and accomplished so much. Besides being one of the friendliest bloggers around!"
ReplyDeleteThank you for your kind words!" : )
I agree with Liisa! I sure want my carrots to grow like your crop!!!
ReplyDeleteAny carrot growing tips to share?
Sinfonian, orange rules!
ReplyDeleteDaphne, I got carried away with the carrots. I'm sure I planted over 1000 of them, so I can afford to eat the small ones and still have a lot left to grow full size!
Toni, the only thing I do "special" is cover the newly planted seeds with a board until they germinate, and make sure they are planted (or thinned) to at least an inch apart.
Sue (I almost missed your comment!) I saw your poor, cold tomatoes, but they might really take off if you get a warm spell. I'm always amazed at how much growth they can put on in a week's time.
ReplyDeleteIt does look lovely from so high up. Have you considered having them make a little spiral staircase up to a crow's nest for you? You could perch right on top of that sturdy shed!
ReplyDeleteLovely cabbage -- I'm loving the garden now but it's starting to show diseases, but few pests. Sigh.
LOL, Stefaneener! Mr. H said he'd keep that under consideration.
ReplyDeleteI'm beginning to pull a few things out of the garden already. Nasturtiums that are suffocating the peppers, cabbage and broccoli plants that have been harvested and would give me a little side harvest, but are taking up too much room, lettuce that has bolted. Time to begin planning the fall garden!
"Have you considered having them make a little spiral staircase up to a crow's nest for you? You could perch right on top of that sturdy shed!"
ReplyDeleteYes Granny~what a cool idea!!! I 2nd Stephaneer's motion!!!
All in favor???
Make it so #1!
You guys are a real hoot!
ReplyDeleteNice picures! Reminds me alot of the new bed/borders I have going. One question....how the heck are you keeping out the grassy weeds from the mulch? I used roundup on mine but now the dead grass looks awful...am pulling it by hand now!!
ReplyDeleteErin, the entire garden area was put in new last summer...you'd have to go back to July 2008 in the blog to see the carnage caused by the wind blowing our big maple tree down (those bare spots near the fence are actually what remains of maple tree roots). I marked off my new *sunny* (sans tree) garden spot and bought a half gallon of Eliminator (cheaper Roundup)and began treating the entire area. Nothing was planted in the garden with the slanted beds until this spring, so every time I saw green it got zapped. Now if I see green, I have my handy dandy spray bottle, and I hit it before it can spread. My only problem is lilac suckers....can't spray them and they are tough. Other than my Roundup, I try to stay as organic as possible. I did hit my Wave petunia with Sevin, 'cause something ate off all its blossoms.
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