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

Bountiful Harvests!

Dill pickles, dilly beans, plum applesauce, blackberry jam, peaches

Late August Veggie Harvest

Carrots, cucubmers, beets, and zucchini

Eat Your Fruits & Vegetables

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

Lemon Cucumbers

Adorable lemon cucumbers

Lemon cucumber bamboo trellises

Early August Vegetables

Pole beans!

Carrots, beans, cucumber,  and Sungold tomatoes

Lots of cucumbers this year: Marketmore and Lemon cukes

A Bountiful Basket

Purple cauliflower, chard, basil, kale, zucchini, rosemary, cabbage, snap pees, cherry tomatoes

First Zucchini

Purple Cauliflower!

Dinosaur Kale in the Kitchen Garden

Today's Harvest!

An amazing harvest today of Schweizer Reisen snow peas, Cascadia snap peas, Dakota shelling peas, strawberries, raspberries, Red Torpedo onions, Dinosaur kale, Swiss chard, and the first of the artichokes!

Divina Butterhead Lettuce

Radish Blossoms and Dinosaur Kale

Adorable white blossoms from bolting radishes

Bolting radishes with Dinosaur kale