Sunday Garden Tour

Every week I mean to participate in the Sunday Garden Tour hosted over at a wrung sponge, but I head out to the garden with my camera and end up gardening! Silly me. This week however, we had a guest in our garden that inspired me to actually follow through on my photoshoot.






This is Bliss, who is no longer speaking to me and muttering something that sounds like "who is she calling geriatric?"

:: edited to add, for the curious, that Mr. Bliss is a Blue Miniature Rex.

Sunday Garden Tour

This is starting to be a pattern. I head out to take pics of the garden for the Sunday Garden Tour, note the chives, take a picture of them, head on the garden and get distracted with slug-hunting, weeding etc. So here, for your enjoyment, are my chives, again.

garden update

We did not grow vegies last year, as I was still a bit shell-shocked from the previous winter, so we are starting our first family vegetable garden in a new location. We have removed sod from eight 6x6 patches which we then topped with horse compost and My Gift tilled and framed them, installing boards around the edges to discourage grass encroachment.

Seven of the eight beds are planted, both seeds and seedlings. We've lost nothing to cutworms or slugs, yet.

Bed 1 holds root vegetables: Radishes, Carrots, and Beets.
Bed 2 is the salad bed: Arugula, Spinach, Lettuces, Parsley, Cilantro, Chard
Bed 3 is Watermelon. Yes, I know. "Good luck with that" is what you are thinking, isn't it? I planted Sweet Dakota Rose and am whispering sweet nothings to her every time I pass by.
Bed 4 is full of cucumbers.
Bed 5 is full of Bush Summer Squash and regular vine winter storage zucchini
Bed 6 is full of an other Bush Zucchini and an regular vine winter storage squash
Bed 7 is for corn & pumpkin. Not in the ground yet, but sprouting in the kitchen window.
Bed 8 is for pole beans and eggplant.





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Sunday garden stroll

Some shots of our backyard today.

next week's salads

pie cherries, which the children eat voraciously, tart as they are!

:: this post is included in the Sunday Garden Tour hosted at a wrung sponge

Sunday Garden Tour

Blooming in my garden this afternoon:

• Queen Elizabeth Rose
• Cecil Brunner roses
• Deep Pink Peonies
• Pale Pink Peonies
• Fairy Rose
• Oregano
• Yellow Day Lilies
• Catmint
• Peace Rose
• Bridal Wreath Spirea
• Clematis - names forgotten
• Slugis Plenteous

Last Sunday afternoon I put my camera battery on to charge so that I could go take garden pics. Before I got out there, however, the rains moved in. They have not yet moved on. We've had a solid week of rain and I am right sick of it. So, these are other people's garden pics as it is too dark here to take a decent picture; that's cloud-cover dark, not sun-gone-down dark.





:: this post is part of Sunday Garden Tour hosted at a wrung sponge
:: this post is part of The Late Spring Field Day hosted at By Sun or Candlelight