The good and the bad, the beautiful and the ugly. Yeah, I’m not going to show you much of the ugly. I’d like to skip over that myself. The reality is that if you walk through my garden, you would view it much differently than I do.
I see all the things I haven’t done.
All the ways I failed.
Or, the seeds failed.
Or the soil isn’t rich enough.
Hopefully, visitors see the coneflower in bloom, the mint tea with its lovely fuzzy flowers and Traveler, following me around like my puppy.
I took a few minutes at “magic hour” to photograph the gardens after a storm. The plants were dripping with fresh water and the sun was shining gloriously orange. I decided to not edit any of the photos, one, for lack of time, (oh.my.gosh. Summer is brutally busy right now) and also because I like to embrace the real factor. Pretty pictures are nice and all but I want honesty and transparency. Hope you do too!
Here’s a look at today’s garden!
I tried my hand at planting some late lettuce in the shade. It worked!
Yellow pear tomatoes. Not yellow yet, obviously.
Yellow filet and purple filet beans and Traveler.
The purple filet beans are about a week away from ready.
Dill going to seed.
My new obsession, calendula.
The scallions still have not been harvested.
This is my new canning tomato but I can’t remember the name right now.
Three days worth of eggs from my 10 girls of various breeds and ages.
Traveler, my resident garden buddy.
Jerusalem Artichoke volunteers from last year. You always miss a couple or 10.
Mr & Mrs. in the garden. They were not happy that Traveler was with me.
Acorn squash.
Volunteer tomatoes. No idea what they are yet.
Beautiful mint blossoms.
Old seeds, again. Swiss Chard, low germination.
New seeds, very successful germination. Lutz Red Beets.
Pink Hopi corn for cornmeal!
These are what’s left of the grapes. The beetles decimated the foliage.
Succession planting of yellow Summer squash.
Calima Green Beans almost ready!
More calendula mixed in with jewel weed. It’s been incredibly invasive this year.
Old seeds. Sparse germination. Purple Royalty Bush beans, great for canning.
A late planting of borage just for fun. The bees LOVE it!
Volunteer sunflowers
Some ugly reality. The beetle bag is full again.
Rainbow Chard. I love this stuff. So beautiful!
My first successful amaranth planting!
Dakota Black Popcorn. A garden staple for us.
Golden Beets and Chiogga Beets. I don’t even like beets but I keep trying.
3 comments
Thank you for the garden tour. I hope to have raised beds in our backyard in the coming year. Your garden is an inspiration. Liked the photos of the cardinals and Traveler too.
You’re welcome! Thanks for stopping by!
Such a beautiful garden, thank you for the realness….I dont think you needed any touching up of photos….nature has its own way of showing beauty. It’s so relaxing to get to walk in the grden and see what surprises we have. I love finding volunteers and seeds tht pop up that I forgot about. My garden is always a work in progress… it is never done…but I like it like that.