Here's an update on our garden. Below are pictures of a picket fence board sign I bought George from Ginger Street in Rainier. It says: Garden of Weeden. It's our eden. Our Eden, once the weeding is done!
As you can see, George has made a lot of progress on the watering system. We've pulled off the poly from the poly tunnels and the plants are growing quickly, now.
Our herbs are growing slowly. The arugula is bolting, but it never did fill out. Strange!
The compost tea barrel is about 1/4th full. We need to add water and compost to it, again.
The old greenhouse is gone and the new one is up & full!
We moved the carpeting from the squash patch (it killed the grass!) and now it's laid out on it's final home. We'll put walkway bark on it, soon.
We put the garden tools in the pallets around the 3 bin composter.
The chairs are guarding the volunteer potatoes that grew in the first bin of the compost station. As you can see, our dogs have run through the other potato box.
This gives perspective on the size of the greenhouse. The beds are 4' x 8'.
Here's the herb garden. In the lower left hand corner is the shoots of our horseradish. I bought a large flower pot for it, because they will put out poison (like black walnut trees do) that kills any plants growing nearby.
Our leeks are tiny and last years kale was cut down, but is coming back.
Our strawberries are thriving in their new barrel.
Flowers are starting to bloom in the side yard. The whisky barrel (with the pump) is filled with peppermint. TEA!
Love the carpet rose (lower left)
Volunteer violets - growing in the river rockery.
more violets.......
More violets (sweet. Reminds me of Loretta Selle. She loved her violets.)
Chives in a barrel. (The asparagus hasn't come up, yet. If it comes up, I'll transfer the chives.)
The hydrangea that Bob used to weed wack down to the ground, because he thought it was a weed, so I put a cement border around it to protect it.
The view of the inside of the greenhouse.
Tomatoes that we started from heirloom seeds. They're happy little tomatoes - enjoying their compost tea.
We'll be planting in square foot sections (maybe 15" in the side bed) carrots, beets, etc for winter.
Folded poly tunnels - saved for next spring.
Buckets & flower pots for starting plants next spring.
Riley snooping around the greenhouse - checking out the hose.
Storage shelves with garden tools and supplies.
Buddy, checking out the sprinkler pipes.
Riley in front of the remains of our old greenhouse. The barrel catches the sawdust from the dust collection system George's children bought him as a "retirement" present. It's making a big difference in the garage.
Buddy eyeing the veggie garden. Our boys love playing out in the yard while we work.
We've eaten broccoli, cabbage, spinach, lettuce and strawberries several times already.
Our peppers were started from seed. They're really growing slow, even though George covered them in the poly tunnels until yesterday.
The spot of red (up in the top of the picture) isn't a flower. It's a red container that we use for a water dish for the boys.
