August Gardens

It's been a beautiful summer full of colors, textures, and delicious growth.

July Gardens

Lots of delicious food, flowers, and beneficial insects this time of year.

The first of the Frost peaches and Hollywood plums

Odessa summer squash and Sungold tomatoes

Onions, beets, carrots, cucumbers, and beans

The weight of the pears cause the branches to arch beautifully.

Anise hyssop with yarrow and calendula

Flowering cilantro and pac choi seed pods

Apple Blossom yarrow

Feverfew

Red Milkweed for Monarch butterflies

Purple Sensation allium going to seed

Stargazer Lilies

Stargazer lilies along the front walkway

Stargazer and Casa Blanca Lilies

Volunteer potatoes with radishes

Ladybug larvae found crawling on leaves of the Italian plum tree

Basil, tarragon, broccoli, and Sungold tomatoes

Rozanne hardy geraniums climbing the Becky Shasta daisies

Snow peas and tomatoes

The first of the soft and hardneck garlic harvest

Red cabbage in all its glory

 

Sliced red cabbage just after harvest

Cabbage into coleslaw

Eat Your Fruits & Vegetables

Pole beans, Sungold tomatoes, Sunshine blueberries, and Golden raspberries

Hot Enough for Tomatoes!

Tomatoes nestled behind the Black-eyed Susans

'Giant' tomoatoes -- a good crop this year

Early August Vegetables

Pole beans!

Carrots, beans, cucumber,  and Sungold tomatoes

Lots of cucumbers this year: Marketmore and Lemon cukes

Tomatoes!

A 'Giant' tomato with 'Sungold' tomatoes

Early Summer Vegetables and Herbs

Globe Artichokes

Bright Lights Swiss chard

'Giant' tomatoes

Bolting lovage seedpods

Dinosaur kale

Cherry Tomatoes in November

The last of the cherry tomatoes!