The horrible truth is that I haven’t done much of anything in the garden during the past two weeks. I hastily rushed out to get some photos before dark Friday evening after spending the day away from home. Intruder joined me of course.
I think it’s time to mow between the beds, pull some weeds, and get my tomatoes transplanted. Maybe we will just mow in the places where there isn’t any white clover blooming. We haven’t cut our yard yet this year either. I want to move away from much mowing, but the kids need a place to kick the soccer ball I guess.
I need to add more straw to my potato beds, you can see the plants poking through now.
Nigella will be blooming any day now. Having flowers reseed in the garden is causing problems for me. They come up in inconvenient places, but I can’t make myself pull them. Eventually the nigella, cosmos, and zinnias will take over I guess.
Here are my scanty and partially fabricated notes:
April 20, 2012: Potatoes up (but really, I just made that date up.)
April 23, 2012: picked spinach leaves for smoothies
April 24, 2012: picked spinach to make Julia Child’s creamed spinach
April 27, 2012: beets are up, time to thin them. peas look pitiful. a red strawberry here and there. If Silas sees me pick one, he squeals and I have to give it to him. Of course I don’t mind.
I sure hope all of you are doing better than I am.
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Radostný deň! Letitia.
As you all growing nicely! Our Plant are only beginning to germinate.
I added a link to my blog until now – with a delay of almost weekly. Thanks for sharing. 🙂
Joyful day! Letitia.
strawberries!
wow.
and beautiful, dreamy pictures.
Thanks for hosting! Looking forward to checking out everyone’s progress. 🙂
I’m so excited to join your garden Journal. Now that’s something I like to talk about.
Your strawberry looks great! Really all of your gardens do. Such pretty flowers!
Hi Ginny! I just join the garden journal, I hope I’m not to late!
I post a little about my balcony news because here it’s raining a lot and it’s difficult to work in the garden.
I see you have a lot of nigella bloow! I have a lot of them but thet’re still growing ^v^
I hope to continue to follow your garnen jurnal for a lot of time.
have a good day!
We haven’t done much in the garden for two weeks, either. I think the garden just needed time to catch up after the burst of planting and sowing that happened in the weeks before.
-Heidi
I absolutely love your garden updates! It is so nice to see what is coming my way in a few (several) weeks! And I can’t get over how beautiful your raised beds are…if only my garden area could look so organized! By the end of May I think I will be ready 🙂
Thanks for the idea of keeping a garden journal. I’m not an outside person, but this has kept me accountable. Thanks!
whoa your strawberries are doing awesome..amazing.
is that one furry whispy plant, dill?
looking good ginny!
T
The strawberries look yummy. I have some wild strawberry plants but no flowers on them yet. It’s pretty much rained here for a week, but luckily I took some photos last Saturday in the sun.
I think your garden looks great! The work is never done just one day or row:) at a time! A strawberry already and look at your lettuce! Wow!
Way ahead of me, also, in cold ucky CT.
Well, here in Maine we have daffodils, grape hyacinths and violets in the garden. The most exciting thing this week is that the mint is up, so now I have chives, lemon thyme, oregano (can’t kill that!!) AND mint to munch on
No such thing as spinach or strawberries here yet.
Your garden is looking wonderful to me 🙂
wow! your garden looks just amazing!! how beautiful and fresh. I really wish I had a garden where I can grow little plants.
Please keep posting about how your green things are doing and hope you have lots of fun at your lovely garden.
I love your gardens! You’ve done so much work in the past that even if you’re not tending them, you have potatoes and spinach and wonderful things coming up!
We have had a slow week with a lot of cold and rain, but did manage to get to a little project we’ve been meaning to accomplish- garden rocks! Now just waiting for some sunshine to entice our seeds to poke their heads up!
I love these garden posts! So far my garden consists of a few flats of seedlings in the kitchen but I’m hoping to be able to join you here on Saturday’s in a few weeks! We were surprised this week with strawberries growing in the back garden! The previous owner must have planted them. I was so excited!
I’m really enjoying your Saturday Garden Journals. I have been inspired to start more seeds this year because of it. Mine are still inside and nothing too exciting to photograph. Hopefully in I few weeks I can share my pictures. Thanks again for the inspiration.
You garden photos are wonderful Ginny, those strawberries look amazing. I have added a blog post that I wrote about our southern hemisphere autumn garden in South Africa.
Have a lovely weekend
Warmly
Linda
you’re ahead of me, you HAVE a garden! pics are beautiful, per usual.
Hi Ginny! I’d join your garden Journal, but I don’t garden. Hubby does some though. Does that count if I post something about his gardening?! LOL
Yard work is never done…so all you can do is keep trying to keep up. I’ve never seen a weed that takes a day off from growing! 🙂 Your garden looks so old fashion. Like from the distant past. I love it!!! ♥♥♥