Tuesday, June 23, 2020

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.




17 comments:

  1. Wow! It's come a long way in a very short time. I love seeing it all and knowing that you are already enjoying the bounty. Thanks for sharing the pictures. :-)

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  2. So very lovely to see all the color while having your coffee. It was storming like crazy this AM to no patio time for us. The thunder rolls lasted well over an hour. One felt as if it was directly on top of us. Take care and enjoy all that beauty and the tasty greens!

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  3. Wow! You've certainly made full use of those planters. Beautiful.

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  4. WoW!!! the gardens look amazing and i am a tad jealous. no, not really, i am so happy that things are coming along. we need a new deck, desperately, and i think i will edge with planters as well!!!

    great pictures, everything is so colorful!!!

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  5. Your planters have filled in nicely in a short time. Looking great!

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  6. It's coming along so well.
    Lovely photographs.

    All the best Jan

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  7. Looks gorgeous! We got a couple of hours of gentle rain here.

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  8. The planters are a joy to look at! Great shot of the tomato blooms...

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  9. It may be a tiny garden but it sure is big on color. Beautiful!!!

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  10. Looking good! I might try some planter boxes next year.

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  11. The flowers and veggies in the planters look really nice -- we'll done you two. Enjoy the visual and gustatory feasts.

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  12. Makes me wish I liked eating veggies.

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  13. Wow! Your gardens are beautiful! I'm a bit embarassed about my veggies, things seem really slow in their growth this spring. The beet greens look wonderful, maybe next year I'll plant some!

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  14. Your gardens looks lovely! So bright and cheerful!

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