My Garden February 2010

 Snow Pea Flowers

 

My Garden...

I have a unique assortment of different veggies growing right now... I guess I could nickname it the "giant salad bowl" as most of it works great in salads. In the big bed I have an assortment of lettuces, broccoli, onions, and carrots. In the medium sized bed I have 5 varieties of tomatoes  and in the smallest bed I have strawberries. The strawberries are an experiment. As a general rule... they do not grow well out here. I did a lot of soil amending with compost and rich topsoil and so far, so good. Of course all the fresh, recent rain we have been getting makes all the plants grow amazingly fast!

 my largest garden bed

 

sweet pea flowers

 

sweet pea plants

My pea plants are growing like crazy! Today I ate one of the ripe pods off the vine and I was not disappointed!

bell pepper plant

 

 cayenne pepper plant

 

 carrot peeking out

 

broccoli

 one head of broccoli started to bolt...

 

broccoli flower bloom

 

broccoli flowers

 

romaine lettuce

Aidan's rainbow lights Swiss chard

 

prostrate rosemary blooms

 

pineapple sage

Not only does this plant actually have the sweet pineapple smell... but it's red tubular flowers bring the prettiest green hummingbird to my yard.

  My Vines...

Home depot was giving a bunch of vines away for free because they were making room for a new shipment of products... I lucked out and was able to get 4 climbing rose bushes for my carport, 2 grapevines, 1 bababerry vine (raspberry variety), and 2 blackberry vines to add to my other existing vines. I already had established 2 thorn-less blackberry vines, 1 red raspberry vine, 2 boysenberry vines and a flame red seedless grape vine. I have been worried about the grape vines as they look like sticks still when all my other vines have started sprouting buds and leaves... but then I noticed little fuzzy buds starting to sprout.

 

grape vine bud

 

bababerry vine

Making Salad...

The kids and I read the story, Tops and Bottoms,  about a rabbit who tricks a lazy bear out of his garden produce three times. Well, that got us too thinking about our garden. Caitlin and Ewan wanted to make a salad so we headed outside and I let the kids pick their "salad". We brought it in, washed, chopped and the enjoyed munching it!

chopping the veggies

 

the salad bowl

 

munching like rabbits