Garden Report

It has just started raining about 30 minutes ago.  A very welcome rain!  Our tiny garden is already exploding with growth from the warm temperatures we've had recently.  This rain will really help. 

It's so dense and diverse it floors me.

This planter looks more like a flower garden than a veggie garden.  It's got Petunias and Marigolds, with Nasturtiums and Zinnias coming along.  It sure makes the planter look colourful!

The planter I sit beside with my morning coffee looks much more like a veggie garden, thanks to the dominant leaves of the summer squash and the beans.  But buried in among those are 6 different herbs, as well as onions, radishes, beets, lettuce and carrots.

A third planter with two of our big tomatoes in pots.

This pot is full of Lavender, which needs dry gravelly soil, so doesn't do well in the good soil of the planters.  It's about to burst into bloom too.

Beet greens, just one of the crops we're already eating, along with the lettuce, onions,parsely and chives.  The beets themselves won't be ready until later of course.  It's amazing how much you can get out of 4 planters like these.  We're having our own salads every day.

The tomatoes have just got their first blooms, promising great eating later in the season.

This flower was a surprise to us, a plant that Mrs. F.G. got last year at a local plant sale.  We weren't sure what it would look like.  It's widely considered an invasive species if it gets out of gardens into natural wetlands.  I don't think that will be an issue here.

We discovered evidence of leaf cutter bees this morning, bees that are very beneficial as pollinators.  I'm now reading about them.