Garden

Balcony Tomatoes! Eggplant! Bell Pepper! More gardening pics here: Garden 2010 How’s your garden going, what’s growing?

I have eggplant growing in the garden thanks to the new fence Brian made me for Mother’s Day! In prior years I could only grow it on the balcony; the deer and such would eat it up.

Brian made me a fence for the garden! It’s very nice and keeps all the various fauna we have roaming the yard at night. I’m talking deer, raccoons, rabbits, possum, etc. This is a big help!

I have such an abundance of mint! I make tea, sachets, mojitos, all sorts of things with it. I also like to pull the excess and put them in glass bottles for decoration. They look so pretty against the windows.

Growing potatoes in an old can that’s placed in the garden! The bottom of the can is rotted out, basically, so the potatoes are growing directly in the soil. As the leaves grow, I cover them up with dirt. By the end of the season I will have lots of potatoes!

Garden shot progress; some garden stuff, honeydew melon, eggplant. corn, tomatoes.

After hacking up weeds and stuff we spread a thick layer of autumn leaves in the garden. Next will be a thick layer of compost, then dirt. blogged:

I have such a green thumb that even stuff I don’t want to grow, grows! LOL! These onions sprouted in my crisper.

I pulled lots of mint from the garden, going to transplant these to the side of the house in a bit.

Seedlings happily growing along! peas, cabbage, spinach, lettuce, and more.

Brian is building a big compost bin. We’ll have the current compost ground space for leaf and grass, yard stuff and use this one for kitchen scraps, paper, cardboard. We were having trouble with wild animals like raccoons plowing through the ground pile and spreading garbage everywhere.

Brian ruthlessly cut them back last fall, I can tell already that the blackberry bushes are going to be much more manageable this year. and we’ll still get enough to eat and to can. Yay!

We had a nice snow cover this winter, but I did not turn the leaf pile even once since last fall. Thus the leaves are still not compost, or even half done. Well the bottom layer is ready but still. Going to wet down and commence to turning and stomping.

I just love these! The first flowers of the year. Daffodils are just such a wonderful and lovely sign of spring

Was pulling up the creeper in the garden when I realized I was also pulling up mint! So far the garden mint has remained contained in it’s allotted spot but I am sure it will pop up everywhere. It always does

It’s that time of year again! I’m all late getting started but oh well, better late than never. These are peas, the seeds were harvested from my garden last year. I have some listed on my etsy and soon to be on my site Earthy Style Spring peas lettuce spinach broccoli carrots Summer cucumber turnips [...]

Mid-December and the indoor tomatoes are ripening. last of the garden stuff!

I had these in the house for a while before they bore fruit. I wonder how long it will take for them to ripen.

I cut some tomato branches and brought them indoors for decoration. I just love green growing things in my kitchen. I put them in some old wine glasses filled with water. Lovely

Drying out this corn cob and saving the seeds for next year. How do I dry it out? Just peel the husks and leave the cob out to open air indoors. Once dry, you can just pick the dried seeds off.

Although the sunflowers in the garden grew to size, the ones on the side of the house did not. I am not sure why…the ground there is very shallow. I’ll dig in some compost this year and let it rest next year.

Some of the tomato plants I’m growing indoors. The trick is to make sure they get lots of sunlight.

Although I prefer a natural unsculpted look I really like the landscaping at the Bay Village, Oh library. so pretty!

A few pics from my balcony garden! above is Bell Pepper Cherry Tomatoes Okra More Bell Pepper

The tomatoes are ripening, finally. It’s been a mild summer…we only had a few days of real hot weather. I need to get at those weeds, WOW

S-bop helping me get the garden under control back in August. This part of the garden was so overrun with weeds I said forget it! and had S-bop mow it down. What was here was green beans, turnips, and yellow squash. We picked the remaining beans and squash and pulled the turnips, then mowed everything [...]

I grew some tomatoes indoors this year like I usually do. Here is one of the pots in the kitchen. Please ignore the dirty floor and stove! I’ve been slacking on housecleaning LOL. Growing tomatoes indoors requires lots of sunlight!

The apple tree put out a lot of fruit this year. We get some daily!

Some pics of the garden from early August. I really let the garden go this summer, it just ran wild. Still, I was able to harvest some things.