Garden photos, 2012 - 2018

Please enjoy my garden photos and stories.                                          
(To smell the flowers and enjoy our vegetables                                       
you'll have to visit the ranch.)                                                                  
                                                                                               


















Big Garden
Shade Garden


Big Garden roses





Garden shot of 2012

This photo is in the February 2013 issue of Sunset Magazine.  Check it out. 

Big Garden paths




Rock Garden

 
Herb Garden








Fern Garden





2016 Garden

How to Prune your roses:

February 2016

Rose before pruning


 The theory is to prune your roses right after 
 President's Day.  Cut away all but 4 - 6 stems.  Leave them about 8" tall.  

 
Same rose after pruning to about 8 inches high
Last summer (2015)


Rose Garden around patio before pruning and weeding




Rose Garden around patio after pruning and weeding



Store the coffee grounds
add the coffee grounds to the mulch bin
You can also find coffee grounds at any Starbuck's, FREE


2015 Garden

The Garden has matured in four years.


Spring:



Rock Garden

Wisteria 
Hood Strawberries with asparagus coming
in the next raised bed.

Garlic & Oreganum

Ever bearing Strawberries, Walla Walla Sweet onions, Garlic & Brussels sprouts
Zucchini, crookneck squash, butternut squash, pumpkins, & corn





Summer:                                                          
































The Zucchini, crookneck, butternut squash, pumpkin and corn.


The strawberries & asparagus producing for 2016 (notice the color of the grass,
it's been a HOT summer.)








Some of the Harvest:




Brussels sprouts



First Hibiscus bloom
Patio


Butternut squash ripe in August.  Amazing!
Indigo Rose Tomatoes
September, chilly nights

Garlic, Red onions, Shallots, Walla Walla Sweet onions






How to winterize your Garden:


Winterize your tomato garden:


After tomatoes are taken out, weed area



Take cover off mulch




Load mulch/compost soil into wheelbarrow



Dig two trenches (if enough room) in your tomato garden





I dig east/west one year and north/south the next year.



Dump mulch/compost into trench #1, put Fall leaves on top (see below) then fill with soil taken out.

Repeat process for trench #2   



Put fall leaves on top of mulch/compost, then fill with soil taken out.



Cover with soil taken out for trenches



Put compost container back and start filling for next year














Note: I put my compost bin on a pallet covered with plywood so mice and rats do not dig into the compost from the bottom.


Ranch Bird House:

A birdhouse at Wilco for $70.  I thought, "I could make one of those for $10."





Lumber was free from my neighbor but it was too narrow so I glued
it together and nailed a backing to the two pieces.

Birdhouse completed.  Now to build a platform for the pole.






Finished!

And now the tenants are occupying their new home.  Mom at the doorway and dad outside.  







Close up 

2013 Garden Photos




Scout in her paddock


Boo in the Herb Garden



Horses in the Garden



Picasso



War Horse



Equuleus
Blueberry patch did not work in the grass






Grass around blueberries was too hard to manage



So I dug it up...

...and put in a gravel path plus wood chips around the blueberries





The blueberries are ripe





Sundial: New to the garden
Red Lucifer in full bloom - July





Hood Strawberries in June



Turned in to Freezer Jam


Walla Walla Sweets, Purple Onion, Lettuce, Red & Golden Beet, Leek



Fresh Peas for dinner


May 22nd harvest








Lupine in May





Guardian of the Garden Gate





Raised beds are planted by May 15





Walla Walla sweets












More on: How to winterize your garden:



Add leaves


Weed the raised bed and turn the soil
Add newspaper to keep the soil warm









Add 4-way soil (Clackamas Landscape Supply has it - sand,
garden compost, cow manure, and soil)


December 30, 2012.  Completly winterized











Garden of 2012:

Peas 


Broccoli
                                                         



Don't you just love the fall harvest


Ornaments

"Strike it Rich"  A Rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
The Hibiscus



The upper garden

At last, Tomatoes (Late July)

Morning harvest (August 24, 2012)

Potting Bench

Spider in the Herb Garden

My first Walla Walla Sweet Onion for 2012
plus more peas and Swiss Chard:
July 10, 2012

Today's harvest! (June 30, 2012)  Can't wait until the good weather sets in.



June 28, 2012:  The vegetables are coming, the vegetables are coming!





Tomatoes
Morning harvest
Walla Walla Sweets, Carrots, Broccoli, Corn
Delicious






 

Peas




Top of the Garden

Beets

Potatoes in gunny sacks

Dill, Parsley, Beans, Leeks,

 Putting the garden in, 2012:

                                                                                              
2010
Spring 2012





                                                                                                                 



New paths below the patio, Winter 2012
There needs to be a Potting Bench in the Garden
               

New grass is coming
First dig up the old dirt and put in top soil
Then roll, seed, water...


and voilá!


Writer's night out at the ranch
August 20, 2011







Before and After shots:                                                                                                                  


                                                        
                                                                                             









The Last Rose of Summer
and some of our final harvest for 2011.  It was a good year.



                                                                                                                       




                                         

One comment for "Garden Bounty."

Lynn said....

Wonderful bounty! Good to eat what one grows. Tastes so much better than what's grown commercially. Enjoy!


New Building Added

Tuff Shed comes to Chestnut Pinto Ranch



Took out the old Green House and inserted a new shed:

Photo taken the day we moved in August 2009

Spring 2010 - Herb garden is in

Green house (needs to go but I fixed it up with shelves)

June 2016, I took out the Green House and ordered a Tuff Shed

July 2016, Foundation poured


July 2016, Tuff Shed brought in and assembled

August 2016, Electricity and insulation put in and I'm adding knotty pine siding

Adding the moulding

Put in work bench and shelves










                       
       




                                                                                    


1 comment:

  1. A thoroughly enjoyable site. Thank you for sharing.
    Harry Diavatis

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