Gabe and I had some fun with the kale before making kale chips.

Thanks

Sandra, thank you for updating the blog. Richard

Miracles in a Garden

Hollyhock

Gooseberries

Amos Pettingill, White Flower Farm’s resident writer, recently sent out this greeting to our email subscribers: “These long, lazy days are the best time to relax and enjoy the miracle that is your garden. The patience, planning, and effort that went into its creation are amply rewarded by the beauty, serenity, and abundance of the show, not to mention the unexpected variations that nature always provides.” 

 

 

"It is not enough that yearly, down this hill, April Comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers."-Edna St Vincent Millay

 "Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short. But when we have had our swing of pleasure, our fill of fruit, and our swelter of heat, we say we have had our day.—Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals, Volume 8

Tomato

Butternut Squash

Napa Cabbage

 

 

 

Fresh Strawberry Pie!

I made this from the amazing strawberries in the garden! A few lucky neighbors got to sample a slice!

Garlic

when shall we plant the garlic this fall?

2012 June Check-In

I love the garden in June. Everything is planted and thriving. And some things are done. The lettuces have been pulled up, revealing a bunny nest. We've had broccoli, cauliflower, onions, chard, kale, two cukes, tiny zucchini's. 

This season is so wacky. The peaches have all been consumed and it was a very good year. I’d say our second-year tree yielded about 100 peaches, most all of them good, although there were some worms and bad spots from insects. Plus, they were absolutely delicious, full of scent, juice, and flavor. The garlic, too, has been harvested--a good two weeks early--and the bed is already replanted with beet seeds, thanks to Marni.

More chard and carrots to plant along with more lettuces as the summer heat diminishes.

Catching Up

On 30th Street we are better gardeners than bloggers. So this is a catching up post to show some of the hard, hard work that went on this spring of 2011.

We planted an "orchard" in the fall of 2010 and added more plants in spring 2011:
peaches, cherries, pears, raspberries, rhubarb, pawpaws, chokeberries, and blueberries. And one elderberry awaiting its home.

 All the fall trees survived and bloomed. Pears and peaches formed but the peaches have all mysteriously vanished mid-season. Four pears are still hanging in. We didn't expect fruit the first year anyway. Now we have to learn to prune.

Then came the asparagus. Asparagus indicates that a gardener has some kind of serious as it is at least a three-year commitment before harvest.
To be continued.