Thursday, June 20, 2013

Long overdue...

So let's try to get this started back with some beautiful shots of the perennial garden. It looks great right now- poppin! 

From the house...

Butterfly "weed"

Unknown pretty blue flower.


along the mail box.

Echinecea and Calla Lillies

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NICE shot of lavender with house in background.

Front Garden along the road

Zinnias, snapdragons, sedum, coreopsis.

Bee balm

Bee Bam and daylilies


Sunday, June 2, 2013

More lessons

So, again, this is a journal.  At the end of the year, I need to do a summary review of positive and negative lessons learned.  Here, in photos, is way.  Photos are about a week old.


About 1/2 of my broccoli bolted; the other did not.  I must have planted two varieties but did not note which.  This is a mistake- documented the varieties! 


Bolted, but leaving in as the flowers supposedly will attract beneficial insects.


I've planted Pontiac Red potatoes in the past and had great results.  I tried Yukon Golds this year and the plants are both less robust and I have these "holes" in the beds.  I also tried smaller, "one eye" pieces of seed potato.  I will return to using the pontiacs and planting bigger, multi-eye chunks next year and compare the results.