(To smell the flowers and enjoy our vegetables
you'll have to visit the ranch.)
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| Big Garden |
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| Shade Garden |
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Big Garden roses
This photo is in the February 2013 issue of Sunset Magazine. Check it out. |
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| Big Garden paths |
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| Rock Garden |
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| Herb Garden |
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| Fern Garden |
How to Prune your roses:
February 2016
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| 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.
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| Same rose after pruning to about 8 inches high |
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| Last summer (2015) |
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| Rose Garden around patio before pruning and weeding |
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| Rose Garden around patio after pruning and weeding |
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| Store the coffee grounds |
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| add the coffee grounds to the mulch bin |
You can also find coffee grounds at any Starbuck's, FREE
The Garden has matured in four years.
Spring:
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| Rock Garden |
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| Wisteria |
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| Hood Strawberries with asparagus coming in the next raised bed. |
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| Garlic & Oreganum |
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| Ever bearing Strawberries, Walla Walla Sweet onions, Garlic & Brussels sprouts |
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Zucchini, crookneck squash, butternut squash, pumpkins, & corn Summer: |
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| The Zucchini, crookneck, butternut squash, pumpkin and corn. |
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| The strawberries & asparagus producing for 2016 (notice the color of the grass, it's been a HOT summer.) |
Some of the Harvest:
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| Brussels sprouts |
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| First Hibiscus bloom |
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| Patio |
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| Butternut squash ripe in August. Amazing! |
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| Indigo Rose Tomatoes |
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| September, chilly nights |
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| Garlic, Red onions, Shallots, Walla Walla Sweet onions |
Winterize your tomato garden:
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| After tomatoes are taken out, weed area |
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| Take cover off mulch |
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| Load mulch/compost soil into wheelbarrow |
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| Dig two trenches (if enough room) in your tomato garden |
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| I dig east/west one year and north/south the next year. |
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| Dump mulch/compost into trench #1, put Fall leaves on top (see below) then fill with soil taken out. Repeat process for trench #2 |
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| Put fall leaves on top of mulch/compost, then fill with soil taken out. |
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| Cover with soil taken out for trenches |
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| 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."
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| Lumber was free from my neighbor but it was too narrow so I glued it together and nailed a backing to the two pieces. |
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| Birdhouse completed. Now to build a platform for the pole. |
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| Finished! |
Close up
2013 Garden Photos
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| Scout in her paddock |
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| Boo in the Herb Garden Horses in the Garden |
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| Picasso |
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| War Horse |
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| Equuleus |
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| Grass around blueberries was too hard to manage |
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| So I dug it up... |
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| ...and put in a gravel path plus wood chips around the blueberries |
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| The blueberries are ripe |
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| Sundial: New to the garden |
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| Red Lucifer in full bloom - July |
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| Hood Strawberries in June |
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| Turned in to Freezer Jam |
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| Walla Walla Sweets, Purple Onion, Lettuce, Red & Golden Beet, Leek |
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| Fresh Peas for dinner |
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| May 22nd harvest |
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| Lupine in May |
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| Guardian of the Garden Gate |
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| Raised beds are planted by May 15 |
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| Walla Walla sweets |
More on: How to winterize your garden:
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| Add leaves |
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| Weed the raised bed and turn the soil |
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| Add newspaper to keep the soil warm |
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| Add 4-way soil (Clackamas Landscape Supply has it - sand, garden compost, cow manure, and soil) |
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| December 30, 2012. Completly winterized |
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| Peas |
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| Broccoli |
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| Don't you just love the fall harvest |
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| Ornaments |
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| "Strike it Rich" A Rose by any other name would smell as sweet. |
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| The Hibiscus |
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| The upper garden |
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| At last, Tomatoes (Late July) |
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| Morning harvest (August 24, 2012) |
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| Potting Bench |
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| Spider in the Herb Garden |
My first Walla Walla Sweet Onion for 2012
plus more peas and Swiss Chard:
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| 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!
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| Tomatoes |
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| Morning harvest |
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| Walla Walla Sweets, Carrots, Broccoli, Corn |
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| Delicious |
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| Peas |
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| Top of the Garden |
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| Beets |
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| Potatoes in gunny sacks |
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| Dill, Parsley, Beans, Leeks, |
Putting the garden in, 2012:
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| 2010 |
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| Spring 2012 |
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| New paths below the patio, Winter 2012 |
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| There needs to be a Potting Bench in the Garden |
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| New grass is coming |
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| First dig up the old dirt and put in top soil |
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Then roll, seed, water... |
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
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| Photo taken the day we moved in August 2009 |
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| Spring 2010 - Herb garden is in |
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| Green house (needs to go but I fixed it up with shelves) |
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| June 2016, I took out the Green House and ordered a Tuff Shed |
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July 2016, Foundation poured |
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| July 2016, Tuff Shed brought in and assembled |
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| August 2016, Electricity and insulation put in and I'm adding knotty pine siding |
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| Adding the moulding |
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| Put in work bench and shelves |
A thoroughly enjoyable site. Thank you for sharing.
ReplyDeleteHarry Diavatis