(To smell the flowers and enjoy our vegetables
you'll have to visit the ranch.)
Big Garden |
Shade Garden |
Big Garden roses
This photo is in the February 2013 issue of Sunset Magazine. Check it out. |
Big Garden paths |
Rock Garden |
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Herb Garden |
Fern 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
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, & cornSummer: |
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:
First Hibiscus bloom |
Garlic, Red onions, Shallots, Walla Walla Sweet onions |
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! |
Close up
2013 Garden Photos
Scout in her paddock |
Boo in the Herb Garden Horses in the Garden |
Picasso |
War Horse |
Equuleus |
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 |
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
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 |
A thoroughly enjoyable site. Thank you for sharing.
ReplyDeleteHarry Diavatis