Fruits of our Labor

Here are some of the fruits of our labor. This makes it all worthwhile.


Gemma's dahlia.

Three varieties of potatoes.


Several beautiful heads of lettuce early on in the summer.


Lots of ever bearing strawberries. We are hoping the June bearing ones do better next year.

Garden Projects

The last post had a very recent picture of Jeff's trellis project. Here are some others underway.


Future home of the garden shed.


Irrigation is in on the north side and pending on the south.


This is part of an equisetum route. They have these water chestnut like things as well as roots that look like tree branches (old growth equisetum?).


I found out about equisetum root systems and Canadian thistle root systems because I spent hours digging them out of one area. I was very proud of my root collection. This worked very well and I have very little returning horsetail or thistle. Yeah!

Where did the summer go? 4

In the foreground of this picture is the first thing I planted way back in February. Also note the ugly trampoline.


Here is the solution to the ugly trampoline. Jeff is constructing a beautiful trellis that will have purple grapes and golden hops growing on it shortly.


The porch was beautiful.

The driveway is filling in. The wooly thyme is doing better than the creeping thyme.

Where did summer go? 3

Here's the herb garden with nothing.


Who knew parsley could grow so big? The herb garden was definitely one of the most successful parts of the garden so far.

Where did summer go? 2

Note nasty thistles popping up.

Where did the summer go? 1

It cannot possibly be October! My best intentions to be a better blogger obviously did not pan out. Better late than never. We had two terrific vacations, one to the east coast and one to the mid west, and worked very hard on the garden.


Willow enjoyed the catnip (courtesy of Islandwood's garden) to death. Literally. Now he just goes next door to the neighbors patch. Except that he just had to have an abscess drained. That plus his foot boo boo from earlier this year have landed him on permanent house arrest. I will have to experiment with indoor catnip growing.


Here is Jeff planting a witch hazel way back in February just to give you a feel for how desolate things were.

Below are a series of pictures of the same areas (sometimes from different viewpoints) at different times to show how things have grown.



OK - the deal is that I can only get 4 pictures at time into a post. It is rather a pain, but you will just have to follow going backward from "Where did summer go? 1" through to 4.