More from today

Ok, I admit it, this post was more about trying something out, but I get some more pictures that are fitting for today.

The beans growing secondary leaves, yeah!



The SFG sunflowers. The sunflowers in the other bed got eaten and need to be replanted. If I could find a garden snake to have live in my backyard I'd be happy.

Friday's Garden update!

As always, pictures are clickable and clicking on the visitor we had will bring up some nice details.

Foxglove



Sweet williams (I think they aren't bushy but grew taller?!?)



Had a thirsty visitor that has me seriously checking out macro lenses.



Hollyhocks from the back



Spinach



Upside down tomatoes



Peas, starting to be not so patient with them this year.



Corn



Beans being OOF in front of the corn that is in focus.



Cabbage (I discuss someone being hungry in SFGville a little later, but he stopped at the cabbage dinner too)



Broccoli



Carrots



Lettuce



Pear tomatoes. There are some in the middle of the plant that are big enough to pick, just waiting for them to turn yellow.



Somethings hungry in SFGville (this is back though, not in the SFG) the other watermelon is down to just stems :(

Watermelon



Crookneck squash



Baby cucumbers



Onions, they add a nice aroma to the yard, especially when the kittens run through them and kick up the smell.



Peppers. Yum?

Happy Friday garden update

Here's the deal. I'm loving my garden this year, I have people stopping to look and comment and ask questions. I live on pristine lawn drive and a lot of my yard still needs a lot of help so I never imagined that people would stop and look at *my* garden.

I feel like a new Mother with a newborn and can't believe the day to day difference. To keep my garden picture posting contained I'm going to do weekly garden updates on Fridays. With lots of SOOC, simply progress pictures.

With that said, here we go. Warning, picture overload.

Garden Guest



Peas



Baby broccoli head



Dill, the matted smushed stuff didn't do well during transplant but it's finally perking up.



Thyme



Sage



Rosemary




The Scientist's geranium. He's as bad to take into a nursery as my Mom is. "Mom, look at this tree, it would look so pretty in our yard" Never mind it's over a $100 and we don't have anywhere to put trees right now. He settled for a couple of geranium plants though.



My poppy plant, I am only getting one blossom at a time so I hope that next year I get more blossoms off of them.



Cabbage that I bought since I couldn't find any more broccoli to replace the 2 that didn't make it through transplant. I could only find pony packs so I have 4 cabbage plants in my flowerbed (yes, along with the tomatoes)



Nameless flower that I've been watching to see if it's a weed or not. This stuff is all over and so beautiful and I have no idea what it's called and haven't been able to find any in stores.



My broccoli is doing wonderful, I love the greenery on these plants. If you look back to last weeks pictures these have grown a bunch.



Cauliflower starting to head up nicely. I'm still not convinced it's not cabbage though.



Peppers, no I don't know what kind yet but I'd guess jalepeno if I had to.



The Scientists pumpkin plant from Mrs. D's class. When he brought it home only one of them has sprouted and luckily we haven't planted it yet, the 2 new sprouts look a lot healthier. I need to get out digging in the backyard though. *sigh*



Camomile perking up and not looking sleepy finally. It even has some new growth.



Onions



Spinach, just about ready for the first cutting.



Corn sprouts



Cucumbers.



The last of the seeds started to come up, the only thing not sprouted yet is the beans. Well, and the things I'm still working on planting.



Itty bitty lily plant that I planted a couple of years ago but it never came up. At least it didn't until I stuck a tomato plant nearby. What I don't understand is why this one has buds when the one below is big, full, healthy and budless. Are there male/female lily plants?



This lily was planted the same time.



Tomato blossom :) I've got a few baby tomatoes on the vine, now for them to grow and ripen.



Baby carrots. A few haven't come up so I've replanted bare spots, I'll thin if I need to. Unfortunately I couldn't remember which boxes had thumbelina carrots and which ones had rainbow.



Strawberries (ones in the SFG, not in the strawberry fountain)

It's getting closer

I now have veggies on my veggie plants :)

"Tomato Balls" according to The Scientist
SS 1/250, f5.3, 165mm, ISO 200




The first of our baby pear tomatoes
ss 1/800, f5.6, 200 mm, ISO 200

SFG progress pictures

I promise, next year my garden will have it's own blog. For this year you'll just have to deal with my photoblog and garden pictures co-exsisting. Besides I do take some garden pictures that are more than just snaps. Occasionally.

We had a few friends stop by the garden today too.

Mr. Robin Red Breast and his lunch



Mr Butterfly (he's SOOC)



My iris is getting ready to bloom



Onto the SFG progress

Cauliflower, broccoli, rosemary, sage, dill (it's coming back after a rough transplant), and thyme



Pepper box, yes it's a lot of pepper plants, no the only peppers we eat around here are bell. No I don't understand it, and yes I'm hoping our neighbors like peppers.



Strawberry fountain, the bareroot plants are starting to green up and have new leaves. Not all of them but enough that I'm encouraged.



Peas. Yes, I had to replant and then the first planting decided they may as well come up too. The rest of this box was planted today, so I just took the peas picture.