Summer in the Garden [2009] continues...

Hello sunflower. The flowers are blooming.

Garden giants.

The herb box is filling out nicely.

Summer Time [2009]

An early harvest.
Zuchinni that keeps growing and growing.
Yellow and green starburst squashes...
Cucumbers growing so fast we couldn't give them away fast enough...

The garden is taking over. We may have started the garden too late.

Much of our garden had shot into seed due to early hot summer months.

We didn't mind so much, it made more seeds for us to collect for next year's planting.

Ahhh... sweet, sweet peas.

Pumpkins.

Spring in the Garden 2009

The garlic is shooting up. We purchased 3 types of garlic from the 100 Mile Diet Challenge booth at the Celebration of Community in Mission in the fall and planted them in October. We purchased Russian Red, Leningrad and Portuguese, roughly 12 bulbs at $2.00 each. The asparagus is starting to sprout right beside the garlic... but it will take 2-3 years to harvest it, as it needs to form strong roots.

We have a patch of clay and poor drainage in the back corner of our property. So we planted potatoes in hopes that it would break up this soil and give it some nutrients that it needs.... Didn't really work out all that well, the potatoes hardly grew and we had a hard time finding them come harvest time. Could be because we planted them too deep - we have learned a thing or two for next potatoe planting season.

Peas, bulk choy, and chard are the first to arrive...

Everything is growing...

An Garden Not Just for the Stomach, but for the Eye...

A beautiful garden to sit back and enjoy its beauty is just as important as one that grows food. A garden's beauty can help to relax and add to one's well-being. Here are some special aesthetic touches...
My circle. A must have in the garden... to use for social and sacred gatherings. A circle is a tool to use to engage in dialogue, it offers a safe social space to explore topics of any form of thinking and doing, and it is a creative and fun place to host gatherings.

I made the arch way out of some tree cuttings and planted box wood to form the entrance way.


The start of our front yard flower garden. Sweetpeas to grow up the staircase, that way we can smell them every time we enter and exit our home. The rest is mix and match plants that needed a home from somewhere else in the garden... This is one space to play where it need not be an edible garden.

Some flower beds in the back to accentuate... BEFORE and...

AFTER... It took considerable time to transport chunks of grass from other unneccessary places in the yard to fill in this bare spot. Just one of the many things that is so time consuming that goes unnoticed.

And here is our precious buddha garden ready for beauty to 'spring'...

And then there was...

We have already enjoyed a season full of rich fresh vegetables and foods in 2009. It's time we get you up to speed from where we started, so that we can tell you where we are going. So let's take a gander through our garden of days gone past...

Here is our herb garden getting under way, right by our back door to make it easy to grab and go and throw fresh herbs into our cooking pot.

Jason has raspberries in pots awaiting planting...

Here are our seedlings we started as early as April.

Well, its getting there, you can start to see the landscape take form... you can see our garlic growing in our garden box on the left and our raspberries tied up and starting to fill out.

The garden has been tilled and its ready for planting as soon as the weather turns.

Garden Genesis

To think we started with this...

This is last year around this time [March].

We started with inserting sticks into the ground all over the yard, plotting out where this and that would go - defining grass areas and garden areas and seeing something magical in the landscape.

We've come a long way, and still have miles to go. And its time I get this 'gabble on the go'and bring you all up to speed - because the seasons are changing and soon it will be growing and harvesting season again.