At long last, the garden photos!
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There are more, and a few of what will be my rose garden next year, as well as the front, but that's enough picspam for now....
| Patio Pots The biggest pot has four varieties of Basil, and the two smaller round ones have five varieties of mint between them. Then of course, there is my big box of impatiens, which are not faring too well. |
| Azalea and Spirea The Azalea and Spirea are in a small bed just next to the patio. The veggie garden is to the far left from this perspective. |
| The food garden The whole veggie garden, with my dilapidated shed in the back. The front bed is the first one I built. It's 8 x 4, and almost 2 feet high. It has been giving bumper crops of lettuce since late April, but they are about done. I need to find some late season crops to put in their place... |
| The cabbage (and chard) patch. Something is making holes in my cabbages. I also think I put them too close together for them to really flourish. Live and learn, no? |
| The herb bed. Clockwise from the bottom: beets, basil, cilantro, rosemary, mint, dill, lavender, sage, and chives in the middle. (Yes, I know, beets are not an herb. I had two left over and nowhere else to put them.) |
| My first cucumber! I am unreasonably excited by this! This small bed is also looking to put out some really nice peppers. The cucumbers have kind of overshadowed the herbs I put here. I think next year, I will try to put in some big, permanent herb beds in front, and leave the annual plantings in the back. |
| Front half of the back bed The tomato half of the back bed. They need better staking, badly! At least the coffe grounds and netting have kept the rabbits and squirrels out, at least so far. |
| Pumpkin tower. I built a frame for my pumpkins to climb, and of which I am ludicrously proud! They are already a good 8 or 12 inches taller than in this photo, taken less than a week ago. |
There are more, and a few of what will be my rose garden next year, as well as the front, but that's enough picspam for now....
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Date: July 5th, 2011 04:01 pm (UTC)I attempted a small herb garden out on the patio a few years ago. I learned chives, lavender, rosemary, and sage love the PacNW weather. But everything else I tried to plant just dies. Guess no Gardening Diploma for me. ;-)
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Date: July 5th, 2011 04:08 pm (UTC)no subject
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I'm not nearly as far along. We have some containers going, a small area that's near our patio, and an area out in the field for cucumbers, melons, and 2 varieties of pumpkins. I'll have to take pics in a few weeks. What with our prolonged cold out here, everything is so far behind! Farmers didn't even get going on crops here until early June. Now that summer sun has finally hit we're getting crazy growth on our plants. FINALLY!!
I'm seriously envious of your basil. I got tons of starts that either got eaten or stunted by being planted in too-cold soil. Live and learn. Now the slugs are under control and its sunny and warm so hopefully my survivors will make some headway.