Lets Take a Walk

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I had have a request by Hadias, she would like to see pictures of my gardens, so happily I will oblige. We all know how much I love my gardens.

This year had been a challenge. I planted a full spring garden, and I was anticipating basket loads of produce, but that didn’t happen….not at all. There have been several factors contributing to my springtime garden failure, none of which I had any control over. First of all we had a very cool spring and things were slow to start, but that in and of itself shouldn’t have stopped me. For a while I had cats using my newly planted garden boxes as their kitty litter boxes (urgh) but I re-planted and covered the boxes with floating row cloth and that kept them out, then we had an invasion of cut worms. About the time my gardens had recovered from the cats and cold weather the worms came out and in about 2 nights they ate everything, my lettuce, spinach, cabbages, carrots and all my peas. I am so thankful that my family wasn’t relying on my gardening efforts to feed them….we would have starved.

Anyway, I am not one to get too discouraged. I have planted my summer garden, it is a little slow in coming, the weather is still a little cool, but the cut worms have gone and the weather man is predicting hot weather in the next few day. So here goes, a little tour of my gardens, flower and vegetable.

This is right out my back door and I am looking to the right, you can see my veggie gardens and the roses/flower gardens up by the house. I have 4 box gardens, one is 4×8 and the others are 4×4. I also have a garden space surrounding the shed/barn/chicken coop.

This is box #1

This box has my potatoes, I planted 32 chunks of potato

This is a little potato (I need to hill this little guy) I am excited to see what happens with these, I have never planted potatoes before.

This is box #2, half of it is in onions and the other have as misc veggies.
There is: three varieties of lettuce, spinach, Broccoli, Bok choi, Basil, Chard, Zinnias and Kolrabi all planted in this little box.

A little baby Bok Choi…

Box#3 it had the two surviving cabbages from the spring planting and two more little sprouting cabbages, the middle strip has carrots (I am hoping to get two crops of carrots) and the back is full of sweet peas. I love sweet peas they smell wonderful, they are my favorite cut flower.


This box is half beets and half beans.

These are little bitty baby beets

I am hoping to get two crops also.

Here is the big main garden, it was a lot bigger then I decided we needed to plop a big shed in it. The shed holds the inside of the chicken coop and the rabbits.
On your left is a big compost pit and a pile of soil I am using to hill my potatoes with.
There are six summer squash planted, three cucumbers and six tomatoes.
I usually have very, very bad luck with tomatoes.

This is a little baby zucchini just coming up.

And here are the tomatoes all caged and ready to go

This picture I am looking back towards the back steps.

That pot in the background is full of garlic plants.

The vegetables are fund and functional

but
I love my flowers
and especially my roses

It is kind of hard to see here, but my rose bushes are full of buds, they will be beautiful this year.
They are a little late, usually by now they are close to blooming,
but like I said before it has been a cool spring.

This is looking left from my back door.
I planted my annual bedding plants about two weeks ago

I am just waiting for a few hot days and they will take off.

This is down the south side of my house. (I have shown you this view before) I have a lot of sun loving perennials. This is also where my raspberries are going to go and my strawberries are also on this side. I have trellises that I plant morning glory (the real kind not the bind weed that is called morning glory around here) on. I also like to plant the big giant sunflowers along the side of the house.

Here are my sunflowers just peeking out.


Some summer perennials that are enjoying the sun


These purple flowers are creeping thyme, I have it planted all over, I really like all the different varieties of thyme and the flowers are lovely


This is the front of the house (sorry the picture is crooked)
This is all planted in summer annuals.

My front porch

And some Columbine that is under the bushes
(I am going to move them to a better place once they stop blooming)


So there you go, my yard, or the parts I was willing to show you anyway!

11 thoughts on “Lets Take a Walk”

  1. Thank you so very much for sharing. My veggie garden is in about the same stages as yours. This is my first year growing veggies and I can’t wait to harvest something.

    I look at those tiny lettuce buds and envision what they will look like when they are ready to be picked.

  2. It’s beautiful! What an inspiration to someone like me who has a long way to go.

  3. Beautiful yard. You have put so much work into it. I’ll bet you and your family love spending time out there.

  5. What a beautiful yard! I had very big plans for gardening this year. We were going to put in strawberries and raspberries and build some raised beds. It did not happen. So next year it will have to be. I have never gardened before so I am feeling overwhelmed by it all.

  6. You would laugh your booty off if I showed you our garden. In fact ~ it’s on my blog. Not too far back, there’s some pictures of us planting as a family. I have 1 little tomato plant in a pot and 1 strawberry plant in a pot. And that’s it. When we buy a house it’s my goal to get a garden going.

    Yours is AWESOME! It is just beautiful!!

  7. Your yard it so pretty! It looks so nice and well kept. I have never been to your house but it looks really good in the pics.

  9. Are you trying to show me up??? haha just joking. It looks amazing. I may hire you out in a few years:)

  10. What a beautiful post. I think your garden has heaps of potential. I miss my veggie patch over the winter.

    Kate