Category Archives: garden

Greens

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Still counting my harvest on the side bar. While I wish I could boast more, it is only June after all. Today I harvested 6 ounces of greens for dinner.

While I Have Been Gone

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I am sorry for my absence during the month of May. Life was crazy busy and it was nice not to have to worry about blogging. However, now that the kids are out of school and soccer season is over I have time on my hands again (haha, yeah, whatever) and I am excited to be back to blogging.

It looks like the warm weather has finally arrived, and it is about time! While the cabbage and Kale have loved the cool wet weather, my other heat loving veggies have been struggling.

This is the cabbage patch
(well and Kale and Broccoli too)

I love to watch those first little cabbage leaves curl in starting to make the head of the cabbage.

This is a beautiful Red Kale. I am determined to learn to cook and love kale this year.
Wish me luck.
Nice healthy Broccoli.
See this lovely bare patch between my Turnips and Spinach? Well that is what happens when you bend over holding a bottle of round up and accidentally spray into your vegetable beds. This whole area was suppose to be filled with spinach and turnips.

Sigh…I reseeded….

Little bitty Celery. This is one of my new vegetable for this year.

And my itty bitty Basil, they ended up surviving the late snow, all be it a little worse for the wear.
This bed has some Bok Choi growing nicely. Everything else is still little, or not come up yet.
Except….
The Chard, something has been munching on my chard……Grrrrr

The grapes we put in this year, bare root are doing beautifully
as are the strawberries.

I love this time of year.

Spring Gardening

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Gardening is one of my all time favorite things to do. Nothing is as soothing to me than a warm summer evening spent pulling weeds or picking vegetables. Or maybe it is the satisfaction I find at filling my dinner table with items fresh from the picking and tended with love. Or maybe it is sinking into bed after a long hot Saturday digging and tilling and pulling and planting. Or maybe it is taking a walk on a cool summer morning enjoying the flowers and their fresh faces. Or maybe it is watching and waiting for the first seedlings of spring to make their appearance.

Whatever it is, I love it, it makes me happy.


This is sage, for my newly redesigned herb garden.


New this year is Celery and Celery root. The secondary leaves are starting to appear, and hopefully they will be big and robust in 4 weeks when I can plant my tender veggies. In my neck of the woods the danger of a hard freeze sticks around until the second week in May. So only the hardiest of vegetable get to be outside now.


Outside, the fist cabbage seedlings are coming up.
(If you look really close you can see the seedlings in the picture below, this is a purple variety of cabbage, so it blends in)

The picture at the top is Spinach. It is a little late this year, due to the stinking varmints (cats) that think my garden boxes are their toilet.
(don’t tell me to add pepper, it doesn’t work with the felines that roam my neighborhood)
This patch of spinach was dug up twice before I found my garden cloth to cover them up.
(GRRRR)

Below, if you look real close you can see the first leaves of my early turnips. Turnips love the cold spring air. My family doesn’t really love turnips, but we are going to work on that this year. They are easy to grow and very good for you, a valuable addition to a garden.

My winter vegetable are doing great, the garlic is lush and green, and my carrots are growing thick tops. The carrots will all be harvested in the next week or so. I have already planted this years first crop of carrots in other beds.

And last, but not least, to my great joy….the bare root raspberries are starting to leaf out.