I am amazed by how fast everything in the garden is growing. We added a few more plants this weekend and now the garden looks like a garden. Well everywhere except where the potatoes are planted. Out of the 15 pieces of potato that we started, only 1 survived. I still need to look back at the pictures of what I planted where, to figure what we ended up with...
The window-box lettuces that we started from seed in March. I think they need thinned. The ones we started from seed just a couple weeks ago are growing much more rapidly...
Overview of the (back box) lettuces, newly planted green beans, (front box) beets (very small plants on the left), broccoli, butternut squash, zucchini, cucumber, carrots, basil, bell peppers, more basil, and tomatoes...
Tomatoes!
Green beans...
Newly planted corn and Japanese eggplant (they'll grow long and skinny)...
The big lettuce that was not started from seed...
The lettuce (mesclun) that was started from seed...
Broccoli...
Our first roma tomato! Originally, I had thought it was a cherry tomato, but if it were it would be ripe by now. It's about an inch in diameter...
Basil! These are some of the plants we bought from the greenhouse at the hospital Mike works at....
Peas! We have peas! Probably 10 or more...
The flowers:
I forgot the names of most of them and I think the tags were thrown away when my sister was helping to plant them...
Purple ground cover viney thing... When we got it, it had tiny purple/blue flowers on it. Very pretty...
Campanula. Currently my favorite. Gorgeous flowers...
Supposedly this grows similarly to a strawberry and also produces fruit you can eat. Mike bought me 2 of these...
No idea what this one is called. I think it's related to "hens and chicks". I'm pretty sure it didn't have the babies growing on it when I bought it... I LOVE this one. It reminds me of a lotus blossom or something you'd see on a lily pad...
Nora Barlow. According to the picture on the tag, this is going to have amazing pink flowers...
Don't know the name, but it's getting ready to bloom...
The landscaping:
I spent an evening and an afternoon digging to level out the lower part of the yard to get ready to (someday) put in a retaining wall to separate the upper and lower back yard. I can't wait for this to all come together!
I spent an evening and an afternoon digging to level out the lower part of the yard to get ready to (someday) put in a retaining wall to separate the upper and lower back yard. I can't wait for this to all come together!
View from the deck...
The steps I cut into the hillside. Eventually, these will be re-shaped and covered with brick paving stones...
View from the side of the house...
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