The Seniors Harvest Some Veggies

Hi! Today was spent outdoors in perfect July summer weather. First, we weeded and harvested goodies from the veggie garden. Oh, my! What a haul! Two kinds of turnips, tomatoes, dill, broccoli, onions, and beets. Yum!

Cleaning the root veggies was not as much fun as picking them, however!

The afternoon was spent weeding the perennial garden, and transplanting the Moon Flowers that have reseeded themselves in rather odd places (in the cracks of the brick walk, for instance).

Dinner was nothing short of LUSH: we had slow cooked a pork shoulder (in the crock pot) with smoked chipoltle peppers in adobo sauce, and had put our special rub on it, too. We had pulled pork tacos (corn tortillas) with all the fixings, tomatoes from our garden, onion from our garden, and mashed turnips from our garden. YUM!

Now...it is time to relax. Tomorrow or so, I will be doing pickled beets and freezing broccoli.

More Garden Goodies

What a weekend! Hopefully, all the wonderful food we ate (and ate, and ate) was offset by the amount of exercise we did!

The veggie garden was weeded on Memorial by yours truly: it took 2 1/2 hours of hoe-hoe-hoeing (and some just plain hand-pulling) but the plants are no longer threated by invaders. For now.

I was so happily surprised to find: baby tomatoes! And...the first red strawberry! Here's the photos to show y'all.

And back at our house, the poppy 'Patty's Plum' has burst into full bloom. It took 3 years for this perennnial poppy to reach this stage, but it's been worth the wait.

Happy gardening!

The Veggie Garden is ALL PLANTED

Yesterday, before the rains came (again), we finished planting the 2009 Veggie Garden!

This is a view of the South end of the garden. The strawberry bed, abloom with wonderful, white flowers, is on the right. Tomato cages are running up the left side of the strawberries, and the dark patch on the left is where we JUST finished planting carrots, turnips and beets.

Our scarecrow is in (minus his pants, which have mysteriously disappeared), the waving butterflies are on the bunny fencing, and the owl has been placed to safeguard the garden.

The bunnies are getting in, of course. Sigh. Hopefully, reinforcing the fencing will solve the problem.

Happy gardening!

The Plant Babies Leave the Greenhouse!

Big day today for the tomato babies and others: we placed them with loving care into our vegetable garden! Into neat little rows went: broccoli, cauliflower, brussels sprouts, and Waaay too many tomato plants. Also, onion sets of red onions were given their chance to prove what they can do.

Still waiting are the seeds for turnips and carrots. The strawberry plants are all in bloom, and the asparagus just keeps on coming! Glorious! The apple tree looks good, but the peach tree had only about 8 flowers this Spring, so we will have our every-other-year peach crop again.

Meanwhile, back on Daisy Court and up on the deck: the spinach, lettuce, trout romaine, cilantro, parsley and basil are doing just fine! Salad soon!

Hungrily waiting....