Ross took this picture of me, and calls it "Mom watching her garden grow"! In reality, this was Tuesday night, and I was resting and waiting for more grass clippings. But, I really do spend a fair amount of time watching my garden grow! And now, for my Friday morning pictures:
The porch boxes are starting to show lots of color.
Tuesday night's mulching around my tomato plants is already getting brown. If weeds dare make an appearance through two or three inches of grass clippings, they are easy to spot and pull out.
The potatoes are growing vigorously. I really enjoy hilling potatoes. And the neat thing about growing potatoes is that to harvest them, you just dig them and put them in the cellar! No hot afternoons filling hot glass jars are involved! And store potatoes are such a disappointment after growing our own.
Lots of mulch around this tomato plant, too. I have a few volunteer potato plants coming up in my tomato patch. I will let some of them grow and dig them for "new" potatoes.
This is my experiment with the sunflower and moonflower growing together. I think I have about three moonflowers coming up that I am hoping will grown on the sunflowers.
Oops! I loaded that one twice! No wonder it took me all afternoon to load these pictures!
Our rhubarb patch is soon going to seed and weed. I made several pies a few weeks ago, and Ross picked enough yesterday to make a couple of pies to take to Ohio with him. He is going out to spend the weekend with the Wyatt's, and help Andrew enjoy his last days of bachelorhood before next Friday's wedding.
Yes, Ross has some pie-baking experience! It's just another one of the ways he reminds me of my brother Ben.
Not real impressive yet, but it is coming!
This is a zuchini plant surrounded by mulch. Plants seem to take a growth spurt right after you put grass clippings around them.
Ken's mother bought me this sign several years back--"This garden is hopping!" I think she was impressed with the size of the tomato plants the year before.
My "kitchen window" view
The flowers around the back door are starting to look nice, too. Ross pressure washed and stained the deck for us last week.
These petunia and red salvia are thriving in a leaky canner out by the double doors of Ken's shop.
Flashback to Tuesday night: Ken is coming to unload some clippings.
I heaped them up!
A more distant view of the garden Tuesday night...
Lots and lots of grass clippings! I will never forget seeing Bob Harper's garden is Cheswick about 15 or 20 years ago. It was thick with grass clipping, and starting to compost. His tomato plants were beautiful, and so were the tomatoes! It was September, I believe, so there were lots of ripe ones. Forever after, I wanted a garden like his. And while my garden tends to get ahead of me in August and September, I really enjoy June in the garden. I think it must be the nurturing instinct in me. I like to watch those little plants grow!
Ah, well on its way to becoming one of my prized tomato plants!
Perhaps I will take some pictures on a sunshiney day and post them, even if it isn't Friday!
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All these garden pictures really make me want to start my own garden-- maybe next year! You folks must mow a lot of grass to get that many clippings! Enjoy the beautiful June weather and your garden.
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