Garden

 

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

Fern Garden

Herb Garden

Main Garden
 









2013 Garden

May 22nd harvest

Lupine in May

Guardian of the Garden Gate



Raised beds are planted by May 15



Walla Walla sweets



How to winterize your garden:


December 30, 2012.  Completly winterized




Weed the raised bed and turn the soil

Add newspaper to keep the soil warm



 

Add leaves




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





 

Garden of 2012:


Peas harvested on December 2nd

             Broccoli harvested Nov. 28th:



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,

 Winter work, 2012:

                                                                                              

2010

Spring 2012

                                                                                                                 

New paths below the patio, Winter 2012


               













New grass is coming

First dig up the old dirt

Then roll, lay the top soil, 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!