June 24, 2015

I haven't been keeping up this spring.  It has been a chilly wet one, and planting has been late.

Our garden is all in, corn, tomatoes, peppers (started from seed), beans, peas, beets, onions, potatoes (reds and Yukon gold), okra, cucumbers, and zucchini, yellow, and butternut squashes.  

Everything is up and doing well. 

Since this blog is primarily about the outside of the house I've included some "outside the house" photos as well.

Sunset in April

A nice selection of blooming plants on May 24th.

I have wanted for years to go put flowers on Jim's folks graves for Memorial Day, but if with didn't already have plans, it was raining.  It was cloudy this year, but we didn't get rained on. 

I planted these in April.  Too bad I only remember where I planted one of them.  

I do a lot of that these days.

First garden harvest.  We had three batches about this size this year.  Finally!!, these plants have been there for 20 years.   

Mother's Day.  

Three kids, three gifts. 

We had a rather bold rabbit come up on the porch. When he wanted a nibble of our pepper plants, we shooed him off.  

Seeds from Lynette planted in May.  They aren't doing very well.  Only one batch is coming up.

They are in the top terrace garden. 

We planted these in a barrel.

June 

Jim's favorite 

Foggy Morning in June 

We allow visitors to our garden. 

Our first beets. 

I've been trying to put in at least 15 minutes a day weeding in our flower garden.  It's gotten out of control the last few years, and even though we cleaned it up for the graduation, some of that was a "cover-up".  This wet, cool spring cam my desire to get out for a long tme.

Blue Flax 

A lovely pre-made set is doing well, thanks to a friend who thought of me after my ear surgery. 

This is how the rest of our deck flowers are looking right now. 

And while this is not on the deck, it is a very impressive mushroom specimen.

The thing is over 8" across.

It's huge!!

There was one there last year.

What is also huge is this hollyhock.  

I've never had one grow this tall.