Garden 2009

I realize nobody else in the whole wide world is as interested in my garden and flowers as I am, but I just can't help myself!

The front flower bed and pots.

I also just discovered that the petals on my dragon wing begonia's are edible, isn't that just cool?

The garden.My front bed here, has some roma tomato's, sweet peppers, as well as a tomatillo plant. The bed in the back has a cherry tomato plant, eggplants, chives and parsnips.

Here in the back corner I have corn that's just starting to send up seedlings and a spaghetti squash plant. The little bed to the left has a parsley plant as well as leeks (that are also just sending up seedlings) and on the right is some celery and horseradish.
The front bed here, has some green chilies and an anahiem pepper plant. The back bed contains more sweet pepper plants (purple, red, yellow and green) as well as some more roma tomato's.
Here is my lettuce/swiss chard/spinach/carrot patch, which is currently being eaten alive by something. Almost every one of my spinach, lettuce and swiss chard leaves has been eaten or attacked. I hope I can eradicate whatever it is that's wiping my plants out before I lose them all. I also bought some grape vines last fall on clearance. I started to wonder if they where actually alive, because there were no signs of life, when everything else was budding and blooming. But last week they started to bud. YEAH! I'm excited to learn how to grow and care for grapes.

I also thought I'd try doing some raspberry bushes this year.

I try to plant most of my bigger more expensive plants (like my grape vines and my raspberries) in pots so when I move I can just pick up my "garden" and take it with me.

My green beans are starting to head up the trellis.

I also planted some watermelon and cantaloupe vines, a couple of cucumber vines and some zucchini and crook neck squash, all of which are to tiny to take pictures of .

I know my garden is a lot like my children, they both seem to stay young, little and tender for forever, but then before I know it everything is big and grown and the end of the season is here. So I'm going to sit back and take a lot of pictures and enjoy this journey every step of the way.

Before I finish up, here's a picture of my favorite little flower ever, out enjoying the morning sunshine!

HAVE I EVER MENTIONED I LOVE SUMMER!!!