Showing posts with label Lettuce. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lettuce. Show all posts

Saturday, January 4, 2014

Still Growing


Overwintering volunteer spinach: a bit weathered but ready for spring growth

Miner's lettuce: tiny but tasty
Miner's lettuce
Leeks!



Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Kitchen Garden Beauty


Summer cabbage with nasturtiums, lettuce, and radishes
Flowering bronze fennel

Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Thursday, June 6, 2013

Spring Salad!

Lettuce and spinach with chive and calendula blossoms


Monday, May 27, 2013

Spring Salad

Lettuces, Red Russian kale, spinach, chives, and green onions

Friday, May 3, 2013

Early Morning Spring Harvest


Princess Irene tulips, lettuce, spinach, arugula, and radishes

Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Spring Lettuces!

Lettuces with snow peas in the square foot garden bed

Monday, April 15, 2013

Square Foot Garden Emperor Tulips


Orange and white Emperor tulips with snow peas, lettuce, and arugula


Tuesday, March 19, 2013

March Vegetable Gardens

Lots of new seedlings this month along with overwintered flowers, herbs, and vegetables
Growing in these beds right now:
Spinach, kale, chives, chervil, rosemary, sorrel, rhubarb, snow peas, snap peas, shelling peas, radishes, onions, rudbeckia, violas, forget-me-nots, poppies, hyacinths, daffodils, and four kinds of tulips


Square foot garden bed with a large trellis ready for Schweizer Riesen snow peas
Growing in this bed right now:
Snow peas, lettuce, beets, radishes, arugula, chives, sorrel, strawberries, oregano, sage, poppies, lavender, primroses, sedum, grape hyacinths, and two kinds of tulips

Sunday, September 2, 2012

Sunshine in the Summer Gardens


Black-eyed Susans (Rudbeckia) in front of the vegetable beds

Divina butterhead lettuce and Umpqua broccoli seedlings

Sorrell, savoy cabbage, red cabbages, and fall spinach

Onions, leeks, and pole beans

Cosmos in the carrot beds

A new planting of carrots and onions for fall

Square foot garden bed with new carrots, beets, spinach, and cherry tomatoes

Black-eyed Susans , nasturtiums, and vegetables in all their glory

The full view

Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Summer Vegetable Beds


"Bolting Lettuce with Herbs and Delicata"

Main vegetable beds with a tall tipi of scarlet runner beans on the right, climbing pole beans and shade-cloth covered cabbages on the left, and a central bamboo trellis for nasturtiums and fall snap peas
Summer and fall veggies in the square foot bed with tomatoes, spinach, radishes, carrots, beets, and alyssum

Strawberry plants in the foreground, lettuce in the middle, and lots of radish, carrot, and beet seedlings all around

Thursday, April 26, 2012

Spring Vegetables


So much new growth!  Spinach, onions, mustard, kale, breadseed poppies, shelling peas, strawberries, calendula , and columbine
Trellis for snow peas with herbs, veggies, and flowers surrounding it

Lettuces, chives, snow peas, mints, oregano, rosemary, and thyme


Shelling peas with tulips, rhubarb, and cloches for kale and cauliflower


Snow peas with radishes and chives


Snow peas with arugula and chives

The bean trellis is ready, but until it warms up, we've planted a variety of greens for the cool season.

The wide view from the deck

Espalier apple tree bed planted with arugula, lettuces, mustard, alyssum, sweet peas, and tulips

Pac choi, broccoli, radishes, and tulips, with strawberries up above