2010 Garden - second half

It's a delight as the garden produces well and there is much to harvest...

Pok choi (I think) and lots of lettuces ~ a few strawberries too.

A young broccoli
How I love searching for "treasures" in the garden!

Anne raspberries beginning their growth season

Cauliflower!

Out of 16 bare-root red osier dogwoods ~ only 2 failed to thrive

Our only gooseberry of the season.
Plants were started from bare root, so not too disappointed.

Herbs!

Lush green beans! One of our favorite things in the garden...

Broccoli getting larger and ready for harvest!

So thankful for ladybugs.
However, with the mass aphid infestation this season - I really hope she has an appetite that doesn't end...

And so, garden expansion begins again

We've got ALOT of work to do still...

Anne golden raspberry (fall) ~ soft, apricot taste.
You want to plant these in your garden: FABULOUS!

Great progress! My husband is awesome with the rototiller.

Huckleberries weeded, fertilized and a fresh layer of compost for the winter

My Toyota Corolla serves me well and is a great "pickup" when needed.

New garden beds installed.
(However, I changed my garden plan over the winter and the 2 cross beds were moved spring 2011.)

This view makes me smile.

Lots of room for future expansions.

Oh my goodness. Carrots fresh from the garden are AMAZING!

...and fall settles into the garden season.

2010 Garden - First half

We started off the 2010 season by putting in raised beds.
First step: rototil

Looks great... Wait. What's that? Not straight with the house? Guess we'll be fixing this little problem.

My new garden gnome.

Where he lives next to the rhubarb

The new Meeker raspberry "sticks" in the back bed.

Anne golden raspberry (fall) sticks in the left bed and everbearing strawberries and the smaller rhubarb plant in the right bed.
*The strawberries and rhubarb were relocated before the 2011 growing season.

The new Misty blueberries

Red osier dogwoods planted on the hill in hopes that they will grow and created a thick hedge eventually...

The garden early spring

Meeker raspberries with signs of growth

Anne raspberries begin to grow

Everbearing strawberries off to a good start

The Black Pearl (left); good, sweet berries and a thornless blackberry (right - which was removed end of season, as the berries weren't sweet)

Evergreen huckleberries growing well

Sunshine blueberries doing very well - had a good, first winter; 2 year old plants

Good growth for the Meeker raspberries. You can see lettuces in the foreground bed.

The spring garden

Herbs planted in the deck planters

GOOD strawberry crop this year despite cool, wet spring

Tomato plants with good growth (though it never got warm enough for good tomato maturity)

The squashes got off to a great start, but I ended up pulling them when the aphids invaded enmasse - not much harvest...

Sugar snap peas always do really well here

Sunshine blueberries were heavy producers in 2010

Rhubarb after harvest with spinach to its left

Love being in the garden!

My faithful garden companion!