Thursday, June 21, 2012

The Little Garden That Could


Let's raise a glass of ice cold lemonade to the fan that's fanning over my left shoulder and the airconditioners GG carried down our rickety attic stairs last night.

It's come in like a lion, summer that is, and we're waiting for the sun to drop below the leylands before we  water. We just checked the temperature, it's 95 at 7:30 PM.  Ahhhh, summer.

This morning I was up with the birds and out with the mosquitoes ( the biggest bites are just before dawn) and took a few pictures of the New Bed ( remember?) that is filling in nicely with a variety of crops from our compost.


There are 3 tomatoes and a few vines, what do you think, squash, cucumber?  There's also a volunteer euphorbia, martini we believe and a couple of sage plants.


The beds may run rampant with a variety of who knows what but that GG runs a tight border patrol.:)

We're replanting the bed under the back stairs former home of the giant pussy willow.



With every fern we move along comes a lily of the valley here and a piece of  sweet woodruff there.

Well done on the self planting.  Now this garden just needs to learn how to weed itself  and we'll have it all going on. Inside.

Sun's down, I'm off.  

How's your summer growing?




13 comments:

  1. Everything looks great! You can send some of that heat our way, no summer to speak of here. xo

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  2. Border patrol! That's a good one.

    I feel your pain. 92 here right now. The garden is doing well but I had to rescue the collapsed hydrangea border with a few buckets of water when I got home from work. Yarrow has gone crazy this year.

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    1. Steve, our hydrangeas in the same shape here. I just thought they were drunk. 92 there? There's no for any of us then.

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  3. The heat and humidity ARE awful right now. I have been up and out early to get some outdoor work done, before the temps get too high. I'm beating back the weeds, and the weather is making for very short work sessions with lots of water breaks.

    Your garden looks great.

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  4. Uck, we hit 100 today I'm quite sure, everything is wilting out there,I'm in agony. At least the tomatoes are showing some fruit, had me VERY worried. Your stuff looks great, no wilting in this heat...is GG putting fans out, what's the secret???

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  5. Thank goodness for this long, cool and fairly rainy spring and early June. I think it has really given everything a chance to get well started for the season. Your garden looks great! I love the towers for your vines. It'll take some water, but so far so good. We can make it for a few more weeks. Don't move too fast! xo

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  6. Hello Jane

    It seems all of North America is in the 90's. Your garden looks great and some good meals are forthcoming.
    Thank God for air conditioning.
    Helenxx

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  7. Today in Minnesota the heat broke and we had the most lovely day you can imagine. Let's hope this cool front is headed your way! I too have a compost volunteer, which I thought might be cucumber when it first emerged, but it's looking more like the zucchini that ate Manhattan. The blossoms haven't opened yet, so I'm still not sure what we have, but I'm seeing lots of zucchini bread in our future.

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  8. We've let the garden do it's own thing. The hydrangea is crazy. Between the Nikki blue and Annabelle, we're covered in it. Thunder and lightening moving in tonight. Cooling off. Thanks be to....

    Your garden is amazing... You and GG are garden goddesses. Those beds are tight!

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  9. Ahhh summer- now I remember it.... very fresh this side, pruning the roses and hydrangeas this weekend and will be dreaming about their future blooms x

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  10. Love those bamboo trellises...tight border control, ha. 95ยบ at 7:30am...am I ready for this?

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    1. Annie, no one is ever ready for this. But I'm excited to have you back on our coast, any day now. Good luck with the move.

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  11. I know you can, I know you can, Little Garden. Looks like you are having fun over there. Your blog, cottage life, two beers, and listening to a 90s BoDeans disc has me asking myself if there is any reason I should return to the city. Feeling it might not be my space any longer. I need more green...

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