The Garden - Summer 2008

The garden has done very well this spring and summer.
Tom and my mother have been working very hard getting it all together.
They rebuilt the garden itself by creating a square with four quadrants.
Three for vegetables and one, a la Martha Stewart, as a 'cutting garden' full of flowers.

There are several vegetables in there: beets (red, orange, and striped), carrots, eggplant, radishes (red & white), lettuce (red leaf, arugula, green leaf), basil, cilantro, parsley, onions, chives, shallots, potatoes (white, gold, and purple), jalapeño peppers, bell peppers, lemon cucumbers, corn, green beans, zucchini and LOTS of tomatoes (grape, yellow, heirloom varieties).

Here are some of the photos:

Tom planted a lot of sunflowers so we could have our
own! So amazing to see how HUGE they became. The one
below is a couple of feet over my head.

For some perspective - you can see how huge the sunflowers
became. They are very neat varieties - red, burgundy, yellow etc.

The CLASSIC Blabey look.
They both have their tongues out -
"concentrating..."
(I laughed and laughed seeing both of them doing this. It must be hereditary.)

A beautiful dahlia.

Green figs.

Tom & Cyanne standing in the cutting flower quadrant.
Looking at the various plants: dahlias (several varieties), sunflowers, cosmos, zinnias,
lilies, and two other bulb flowers plants.

Close-ups of the sunflowers.





Eggplant



Corn





Another dahlia variety



We learned quite a bit about what we would and would not plant again (3 years going now...)
We plan to plant several things again - for instance, the potatoes were much better than expected so those will go in again.
The tomatoes did well though they always do...
We'll definitely do the cutting garden - I certainly reaped a lot of benefit from that. Almost nothing beats fresh, beautiful flowers cut and delivered straight from the garden.

Overall, it is quite a fun experiment.

Now they're getting ready for the fall/winter garden!