Gardening: (2016– )

[chromedome]

Not one of my garden plants, but this was probably the most appropriate spot for it (I think?). Spotted alongside one of my compost piles, this is... red clover. I've never noticed it before, but having scrutinized several other plants apparently the leaves take this shape immediately beneath the blossom (so...bracts, I guess?). 

 

Anyway, it's amazing the beautiful things you see when you take a moment to actually look. 

 

      

[TicTac]

My ‘other’ garden.  Needs very little weeding or watering!  
 

[JoNorvelleWalker]

I picked the first few tiny tomatoes from my plants.  Tiny, but taste like tomatoes.

 

[gfweb]

I just beat Henry to the first ripe Early Girl tomatoes. More to follow

[chromedome]

14 hours ago, gfweb said:

I just beat Henry to the first ripe Early Girl tomatoes. More to follow

I learned last year that our little Wembley also has a taste for the tomatoes. Fortunately he's a small dog, and could only get the literal low-hanging fruit. 

Everything is late in my garden this year (or more accurately, I was late with everything in my garden this year) but the greens are coming, and the garlic is almost ready, and I just picked 250g of shelled peas (a little over a half-pound) from the first row I'd planted (and our rabbits loved the pods). A couple more rows are just beginning to form pods, and I've bought additional seed for a few late rows that should begin to mature as the summer heat starts to fade. 

 

I'm still breaking new ground in my garden patch; at the beginning of this year I only had about 60% of the available space bedded up and planted. The lower area (ie, the unused space) seems to have a somewhat more favorable ratio of stones:soil, so I'm digging down instead of framing beds in scrap lumber. I'm going to try a late July/early August planting of cauliflower, since spring plantings never seem to amount to anything for me here (our springs just don't seem to last long enough for cauliflower or spinach to flourish before the hot weather). 

 

Still struggling with basil, which doesn't seem to be a problem for most gardeners (and wasn't for me either, out west) but which has been a delicate prima donna in my current garden. It's irritating. It's not that Costco's pesto isn't perfectly acceptable for day-to-day use, but... that's not the point.  

[Paul Bacino]

When ground cover becomes Shisho Leafs!!