I didn't know what to name this post so my fallback on dorky takes over. The important thing is that you're here, nooo don't leave! Just hang out a minute and see what my latest garden photos looks like. I will mention minis at the end:) I promise! Here we go! So I'm starting with this photo of peas that were so big they were squishing each other! I ate them right after I took this shot so now their struggle is over. Potatoes from out on the farm, and fresh blackberries that I pick daily and freeze so we can make jam or jelly, one or the other.
Here are our tomatoes resting on the stick supports I made for them. These are working very well for housing so many, very inexpensive with lots of room for growth. Thanks to Karin for sending in how to prune these, I do my best to see each leaf has it's share of sunshine and not too crowded. See tomatoes yet? They're there, and green. The cats are obsessed with tomatoes so we won't be leaving these on the sill to ripen. Silly kittens.
Carrots, broccoli, lettuce, and beans.
Go peas go! They like my trellis! So far we've got two big mixing bowls full of peas, frozen now. I don't especially like shelling these as it takes a while.
The corn is happy!
Some crazy looking yellow onions, and beans. The tomatoes are just past these rows. The white string/rope around the garden is a deer fence. It's sprayed with something foul, probably urine, and it's sworn to keep deer out. Rabbits don't care about this fence and think some things are theirs.
The nerve. That's it for the lower garden.
Up above in the second patch is winter squash, and more tomatoes.
More peas on a much smaller scale trellis. One thing we learned is we'll just go on ahead and keep peas next to each other next season. We'll also make some rows bigger, like the tomatoes.
Delicious lettuce, broccoli, and lots of weeds interspersed with random growing tomatoes from last years planting. I felt so bad after seeing these weeds I did spend an hour weeding today even though I didn't have that plan...
Some more crazy looking onions, these are red and white onions. Next to some of the best potatoes I've ever had!
Isn't this bloom pretty? This is a red potato that was planted last year. Surprise!
Blackberries picked daily to beat the birds.
Another surprise, a hollyhock growing behind our shed. So tall, and pretty. It is taller than I am!
Wait, everything is taller than I am:( Thank you for hanging in there and seeing the garden with me, it's been a lot of work I tell ya! I feel like frontier woman sometimes between these gardens here and out on the farm. Always something to do!
See, here is the mini! This is the beginning of our new bookcase coming by special request from a customer making a bookstore:) Exciting! I love seeing the books on it even though it is only halfway finished. So cute!!! Now Bruce gets to make measurement notes, and finish it up with sides, paint, etc. That's all I have for now. I've made a stew for dinner with our fresh garden pickings so I'm off to go check that now. Delicious! Thanks for popping in:) Cathy
Katie I'm glad you enjoyed the garden post. My daughter and I just got through watering and eating peas and blackberries:) She was surprised she liked peas right out of the shell, wait until she tries the beans.
Posted by: Cathy McGhee | July 16, 2009 at 04:43 PM
Kim trust me it sounds better than it tastes, I'm fairly new at cooking:) I think I need a mini bookcase too.
Posted by: Cathy McGhee | July 16, 2009 at 04:41 PM
Oh My! Your making me miss my childhood! My favorite thing to eat in my Dad's garden were snowpeas...he could hardly get them to grow before I'd eat them!! And blackberries!! We used to pick them on the longs walks we went on! There's nothing better than right of the vines!!!
The book case IS cute!! I've been trying to figure out how to do a magazine rack for the Star Wars Toystore for awhile now...still thinking on it !
Thanks for taking us in a tour through the garden!:)
Katie
Posted by: Katrina | July 16, 2009 at 03:03 PM
Your garden looks terrific! I wish I was coming over for some garden fresh stew :) Love the bookcase too!
Posted by: kim | July 16, 2009 at 10:23 AM