June 25

Update

Todays harvest - 25 heads of garlic and peas for supper.

Major construction happening in the garden today.

Something tells me it's going to be a great summer!

June 21st, 2014

The first day of summer means 2 things.  First of all I'm sad to see the end of spring, but at the same time we are starting to see some of our hard work pay off.  Strawberry season is in full swing, garlic, potatoes and peas are ready to be eaten, and every day brings something new.

250g of strawberries from our little overgrown strawberry patch.  I'll have to put a little more effort into these guys next year and give them their full due.

Love to see these little guys hanging around.  There were two of them flying around the broad beans.

A beautiful little crab apple.  Still green now, but will soon be turning into a nice deep red.

Two of the biggest snow peas I have ever seen.

Baby zucchinis

Beans, beans and more beans!

Rutabaga showing it's trademark purple top.

Red storage onions sizing up.  Should be ready in a couple of months.

There's just something cool about potato flowers.

100g of peas.  I had to hide these from the kids so that they would last till supper.

6 heads of garlic

A ground cherry flower closing up to produce it's fruit.

Tomatoes in the greenhouse.

The first couple of cherry tomatoes forming up.  This is a variety called yellow pear.

Cucumbers and melons.

Beautiful butterhead lettuce in the greenhouse.

The first of the pepper flowers.

Onion flowers.

Nasturtiums.  The local hummingbirds have already been into these.

1.4kg of the most beautiful red potatoes I have ever seen.

June 8th, 2014

What a huge day of firsts!!  Our first harvest of potatoes and garlic, first peas and first strawberries.  Things are really starting to take off!

Plums are sizing up nicely.

The first potatoe harvest of the season, and the first ever in our garden!  2lbs of potatoes from 4 plants.

My little helper was pretty excited.

Still lots of plants.

Definitely signs of the apple scab back on the Macintosh, but much of the fruit seems un touched so far.

Potatoes in bloom.

First garlic harvested.

Marigolds and beans.

Zucchini started indoors.

Carrots, late planted potatoes and rutabagas.

More beans.

Brassicas showing some life.

More zucchinis and beans.

Fava bean flowers.

Snow peas!

First snow peas of the season.

Blueberries soon.

Our little hidden garden of strawberries.

First strawberries of the season.

Raspberries soon.

Lettuce on the deck.

More lettuce on the deck.

Parsley, dill, thyme and oregano.

More peas on the deck.

Some annuals in full bloom.