Dana O'Driscoll Hello everyone! Its been a while since I posted actual updates from the garden. So here are some new photos! We have had very little rain in the last two months, so I’ve had to water a bit. The heat wave was kind to the corn, less kind to the strawberries and kale :). But other than that, everything is growing really well!
So this little pepper plant was saved from seeds from a pepper I bought at the farmer’s market last year. The person I bought it from didn’t have a name for the pepper, but she said she saved them from her grandmother (and she is quite old herself!). It ripens into a wonderful sweet, long pepper with no hint of spiciness.
This is my butterfly garden + herb garden path. Strawberries are behind where I took the photo. I put up that archway recently and I have some hardy kiwi growing on it. I’m looking forward to eating them in a few years!
My garden is really kind of wild…and honestly, what better way for it to be? Tomatoes sprawl everywhere. The heirloom tomatoes I’m growing are really….boisterous, perhaps.
The kale (which I’ll be posting more about soon) is in the front; you can see four of the 4′ x 20′ rows. This is very early in the morning; the sun hasn’t yet came up through the trees.
Garden with 6′ fence and homemade wooden door. Its about 1600 square feet.
Here’s my composting area! I gather up leaves from other people’s yard as well as my own yard in the fall; they compost down for a year or more. I also add all kinds of weeds, yard waste, etc. I’m hesitant to gather much yard waste from other people as there might be pesticides in it. I also slash down and add comfrey to my pile a few times a year. Comfrey is an excellent nitrogen fixer!
This is the 2nd year of the butterfly and bee attractor garden. I really am happy with it this year. I did it all from seed; it didn’t really do much last year, but its really lovely this year!
Here are some peanuts (front, they seem to grow slow); basil, and a bunch of beans. You can see some corn on the left and tomatoes on the right.
You have sun? You lucky old thing! In the UK we have had rain, rain and more rain. Yesterday there was a river running down my street! Sufficient to say, the seedlings which haven’t died at the hands of the slugs are struggling!
Looks like a good garden. I wish for less rain.
We have too much sun. We only had it rain once in the last 6 weeks. Its kind of a problem. Clearly, you need to send some of your rain from the UK to the USA! 🙂