Wednesday, July 23, 2008

WOW! Three days after planting the seeds...

Chinese Cabbage on the right, Green Lettuce on the left.

Blackberries aplenty coming.

Veronica and Beebalm.

I have lettuce on the left and Chinese cabbage coming up after planting the seeds just before noon this past Sunday. I also planted cilantro, dill and cauliflower...but no sign of them as yet.

I'm so surprised how much I've enjoyed the vegetable garden this year especially since I wasn't even going to have vegetables this year but the chillins' wanted them. I was thinking of dismantling the four 4x4 veggie beds and make a rose garden in some kind of roundy shape to try to offset the whole linear quality of living in a mobile home.....but it's been very rewarding having food from my own garden with dinner almost every night....makes me want to put in a bit more lettuce in a couple weeks to extend the season into the fall.....also makes me think about cutting my meat intake a lot.

There's going to be a bumper crop of blackberries too which makes me wish I had a bigger freezer or something....I've also included part of the view looking back from my porch that shows the purple veronica with the decidedly pinky bee balm behind it. I like the way they look blending into each other and miss their tallness in the winter when there's nothing to define where the walkway to the shed unless I shovel....It'll be a happy thing to have these photos to look at then.

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2 comments:

SMC said...

Wow! The Chinese Cabbage will probably be monstrous too. Well, we are getting a new and improved (larger) freezer. Perhaps we could store some of your blackberries?

Very impressed with the fertility levels at Chez Windy.

LYC said...

It was all about those 3 bags of humis and cow manure...stinkier the better. Here at Chez, Doo is the word.