Harvest and Hot Mess

I ran out to the garden to do a quick harvest. What I found was while I’ve been busy running the garden was busy growing into a hot mess. 3 hours of puttering later the plants are somewhat tamed, two trellis’ have multiple plant baby action and I finally a basket from harvesting.

#photoadayjune 24 on my mind -2

Posted: 2012/06/24 | Author: Lola | Filed under: Gardening, Photo a Day | Tags: Garden, Gardening, raised bed gardening, Square Foot Gardening, trellis gardening, watermelon | Leave a comment

It’s hot. I wish this was much bigger.

The Garden so far: Early Summer

Posted: 2012/06/06 | Author: Lola | Filed under: Gardening | Tags: Begonia, Cut Flower Gardening, Daisy, Dill, Flower Gardening, Garden, Gardening, Gladiola, Lilly, Midwest Gardening, Mr Lincoln Rose, raised bed gardening, snap dragon, Square Foot Gardening, Sunflower, Tomatillo, trellis gardening, Zinnia | Leave a comment

Hello Lovies! Here are some pics of our garden so far this year. I’ll get more specific about varieties, if I haven’t already I honestly cannot remember, in a later post. Right now some crazy person decided she was going to write 10 posts in 10 days while working a full time job and picking back up training for running. I’m actually at the point where I almost have everything I want in the garden foundation wise. Shhh don’t tell Babu or he will start relaxing and I just cannot have that.

: Tomatillos ready for their new home

: Baby Tomatillo

: Lillies

: Daisy

: Lillies

: Yellow/Orange Snap Dragon

: Baby Roma Tomato

: Peas

: Coleus

: White planter flowers

: Begonia

: Caladium aka Elephant Ears

: More planter plants

: Freesia I think

: Baby Hydrangea

: PInk Lilly, these blooms fade super quickly

: Multi Snap Dragon

: This came in a pre-school fund raiser planter

: Baby Zinnia

: Daisy

: My new baby, brand new back bed

: Sunflower

: Yellow Snap Dragon

: White Snap Dragon

: Red Snap Dragon

: Allium

: This guy may win the first to bloom sunflower race

: Lilly

: Daisy

: Red Rose

: Dill flower

: Herbs, Chives, Dill, 3 kinds of Basil, Cilantro, 2 kinds of Parsley

: Red Rose

: Tomatillo

: Raised Bed #1, Peas, Garlic, Tomatoes, Peppers, slug salad was already harvested,

: Raised Bed #2, Strawberries, Red and White Onions, Tomato and Pepper

: Raised bed #3, Tomato, Peppers, Tomatillos

: Raised bed #4, peppers, 2 cucumbers, 2 water melons

: Gladiolas, Sunflowers, Russian Sage, Oregeno

: herb bed from the side

: Rose bush bed

: Baby Zinnia and White Snap Dragon

: Zinnia’s are not stepping up this year, I may have to supplement with some Dahlia’s

: Orange Lillies and Daisies

: My first successful bare root rose plant, A J&P Mr. Lincoln

: should be full of sunflowers and zinnias soon

: Day Lillies

: White Snap Dragon

: I still have no idea what plant this is, it bloom bi-annually

: Light butter yellow Lilly, it is almost cream

: Lillies

: Front bed and planter boxes

: Hostas

: Pink Begonia

: This was a nice first berry though

: First Berry crop, I’m already over it

Spring continues in the Garden

Posted: 2012/05/09 | Author: Lola | Filed under: Gardening | Tags: Cut Flower Gardening, Daisy, Flower Gardening, Garden, Gardening, iris, Iris sibirica, lettuce, Midwest Gardening, peas, peony, Plant, raised bed gardening, roses, Seed, snap dragon, Square Foot Gardening, Tomatillo, trellis gardening, Zephirine Drouhin Antique Climbing Rose, Zinnia | Leave a comment

I finally got it together enough to get some shots of the garden this Spring. It has been the best spring ever, I forgot how much I love spring because it seems we never actually get one. This year has been at lest 2 springs at once. The Peppers and Tomatoes I ordered from Gurney’s are on their way and I’ll get them in this weekend. We are going to buy Tomatillos from the Chilewoman.com and make the trip to Bloomington, IN to pick them up over Memorial Day weekend. For those of you local I have divided Siberian Iris and some leftover onion starts that may or may not be viable so you can just have them. Today I hope to get Sunflower and Zinnia seeds in while I am supposed to be nursing my foot, shhh, don’t tell Babu.

: Peony bud

: White Siberian Iris

: garden river

: At home in the mint

: Badger protecting the garden from those pesky birds

: Red rose

: First harvest of Dill

: iris bloom

: back porch snap dragons

: Peony buds are forming

: Lilly

: Lillies are already getting tall

: Peony Bud, amazing that all those petals are hiding in there

: Siberian Iris

: Peony bush

: Peony

: Red rose bush

: white snapdragon is almost a bush

: Lilly of the Valley, been in the family since great-great- grandmas garden.

: It’s only May 8th, they never even died! Snapdragons

: Maroon Pansy

: Snapdragons in the front bed with some pansies

: Plants ready to go in

: Bird nest and eggs

: Bird Eggs

: Peonies

: Peony and Roses in a vase

: The full moon over the weekend

: East side retaining wall herb bed, dill, basil, parsely, cilantro, chives,

: Zephirine Drouhin Antique Climbing Rose, just arrived

: Sunflowers do NOT like to be transplanted, but I have made it work before, fingers crossed.

: Newest raised bed, peas, beets, lettuce, garlic,

: I have 2 baby Beets, Ruby Queen I think

: Pea baby

: First crop of baby lettuce, as usual I was late getting it in

: Happy Strawberries

: Onions, Red Candy Apple, Copra Hybrid

: Turtle in the Oregano

: Russian Sage is recovering from the frost nicely

: Retaining wall bed East Front

: Retaining wall bed front west

: Mr. Lincoln Rose bare root transplant, fingers crossed

: Baby Zinnia reseeds, I still have to get my Zinnia’s in the ground

: Something really pissed off this dogwood bush over the winter 😦

: West side retaining wall bed

: Bottom edge of the newest bed

: free rain barrel from the town

: long view of the newest bed

: Spent double white peony bloom, freaky

: Daisy buds

: The lavender is a bit water logged I fear

Garden in Spring 2012

Posted: 2012/03/28 | Author: Lola | Filed under: Gardening | Tags: Annuals, cilantro, Cut Flower Gardening, Daffodil, Flower, Flower Gardening, Garden, Gardening, hyacinth, Midwest Gardening, Perennial plant, raised bed gardening, snap dragon, Square Foot Gardening, trellis gardening, Tulip | 1 Comment

Spring came early this year, it started on the 13th with some buds, annuals that didn’t ever die, and perennials pushing up, then it exploded. For the record I’m still holding my breath for the ice storm. Meanwhile Enjoy something that isn’t trash!

: Daffodil

: Daffodil

: Daffodil

: Daffodil

: Snapdragons and Tulips pre bloom

: Didn’t ever really die snapdragons

: Daffodil

: Daffodil

: Daffodils pre bloom

: Baby Bleeding Heart

: Baby Hydrangea

: Baby Hyacinths

: Baby Mums

: Baby Iris

: Baby Lillies

: Willow

: Grape Hyacinths pre bloom

: Hyacinths pre-bloom

: Tulips pre bloom

: Rose Bush 2 weeks ago

: Cilantro

: Chives

: Daffodil

: Daffodil

: Daffodil

: Hyacinth

: Daffodil, Hyacinth

: Daffodil

: Tulip

: Tulip

: Front Bed

: Bleeding Heart

: Tulip

: Tulip

: Bleeding Heart

: Tulip

: Tulip

: Grape Hyacinth

: Tulip

: Tulip

: Tulip

: Tulip

: Tulip

: Tulip

: Tulip

: Baby Lillies

: Baby Daisy’s

: 2nd crop of Cilantro

: Tulip

: Tulip

: Baby Peony and Daisy

: Grape Hyacinth, Tulips, Daffodils in the back baed

: Daffodil

: Daffodil

: Rose Bush

Indian Summer in the garden or why we still have peppers growing

Posted: 2011/10/09 | Author: Lola | Filed under: Gardening | Tags: Balloon Flower, Coleus, Cut Flower Gardening, Flower Gardening, Football Mum, Garden, Gardening, Home, Indian Summer, Midwest Gardening, Mums, raised bed gardening, Square Foot Gardening, Sunflower, trellis gardening, Zinnia | Leave a comment

: Peppers

: One man down of many

: Hot pink

: Seeded head

: Pretty fall Zinnia’s still going strong

: I need to cut these

: I have been letting the Zinnia’s go.

: Light pink Zinnia

: Pink Zinnia

: White mums

: Spooky Coleus

: Football Mum

: Football Mum. I need to move it so it can get really big.

: One lone Balloon Flower decided to make a 2nd bloom appearance

: This one is just getting her groove on.

: Marigold’s

: Dried sunflower carcass

: HUGE Sunflower head and my really ugly hand

: Blackberry Tiger Lillies have gone to seed. Let me know if you want some!

: The neighbor saw a snake in our garden

: MiniMe found a toad in the garden

: One eyed Toad

: C’mon over, we are ready for you

I took a good look at the garden last Thursday and took some pics. I am pleased that we have been blessed with almost 2 weeks of good warm weather which has allowed my late tomatoes and peppers to keep growing. We have had two light frosts already, but neither of them made to the raised beds or the retaining wall. I will have to pull off the produce by next Saturday or Sunday depending on temps and frost. So I hope they grow like heck this week. I also have a ton of clean-up and fall bed creating to do, some plant moving to plan and accomplish and a yard to get ready for the hood Halloween Decorating contest. And I must have more mums and spring bulbs. Now sure how I’m going to pull all of that off in the 50 hour work weeks I have going on right now. But I’m betting you won’t be hearing from me as much. But for now The Husband and the Destroyer are at the game and MiniMe is off exploring on her bike. I am going to start the laundry and pick a project from the very long list of things I need and want to do. Meanwhile enjoy these pics of the garden in Indian Summer.

PS. Wasn’t the moon just awesome last night. I was out enjoying in until around 4:30. I good time was had by all.

Saturday in the garden

Posted: 2011/09/18 | Author: Lola | Filed under: Gardening | Tags: Cut Flower Gardening, Flower Gardening, Garden, Gardening, Home and Garden, Midwest Gardening, raised bed gardening, Square Foot Gardening, trellis gardening | Leave a comment

It was an amazing nice sunny fall day here on Saturday. So I did a little work outside and took some pics of the back gardens. The grass could use a mow and some rain.

We got a whopping 4 little pumpkins this year before the vines did this sort of slow fungus filled death thing.

Peppers have started coming in, I hope I can keep them warm enough long enough.

Harvest one of tomatoes is over, several batches of sauce were mad e, including one with so much garlic it is actually SPICY hot. The 2nd harvest is brewing. There were about 6 horn worms this year, four the wasps killed with their eggs so that was VERY nice. One I let the kids keep as a”pet” (mwahahahah), and this little guy I’m going to let stay since it is late in the year anyway.

The Big headed sunflowers are dropping and filling with seeds

The red rose bush is got its fall bloom going on.

The blackberry lilies have gone to seed

two grasshoppers were enjoying the nice sunny weather.

If I remember I will get around to the front and sides for some pics tomorrow.