Garden week of June 8th 2013

Wow, that was a lot of rain we just got. Headed out early this morning to take some photos. Lot's happening in the garden this week.

Brussels sprouts, cauliflower, celery, bell pepper, cayenne pepper

 Chocolate min, basil, catnip, saffron, oregano, cilantro

 zucchini

 Egyptian walking onions

 zucchini

 tomatos

Grapes

 Grapes

 Lots and lots of baby grapes! I'll have to find a way to preserve them! Concord grape jelly?

 Peonies almost ready to bloom

 Honeysuckle

 Butterfly bush, no blooms yet

 daisies

 peach tree

 peach

 Sunflowers reseeded themselves

 These were cut to the ground last year. Making a nice comeback.

Scarlet honeysuckle in butterfly garden

The butterfly gardens starting to come into bloom now. Here's our honeysuckle we tied up earlier this Spring ready to burst into bloom

Harvested some red leaf lettuce.

I harvested some red leaf lettuce today. I'm hoping by giving it a good trim i'll make more leaves instead of going to seed. Not quite enough for out family, it's my first attempt at lettuce. Next year I'm may do a whole raised bed of it.

Also got some more seeds planted. Mostly squash, zucchini, baby boo pumpkins, jack o lantern pumpkins, acorn squash, marketmore cucumbers, lemon cucumbers and some datura seeds that were loose in my seed box.

I LOVE this apple container I got from Costco to start seeds in! I may have to go buy more apples just for the container!  It even comes with drainage holes

Found a dead mouse in the yard

I found a dead mouse in the yard today while watering the grass. I think maybe the chickens got to him? They didn't eat him if they did. One that won't be making it into my house thankfully!

I keep discovering more and more benefits of keeps chickens everyday!

My gorgeous foxglove I got for Mothers Day.

I'm going to try to get this planted todau in my butterfly / hummingbird garden.

Little chicken sneaks

I have my vegetable garden blocked of so our chickens Molly (barred rock) and Annie (Rhode island red) can't get in and they sneaked up across my deck to get in the other way!

My seed starting system

We recently installed a grow light over the shelf in the laundry closet for starting seeds. Had to bring the seedlings indoors last night and put them under to grow light to protect them from the frost.

Love this mini greenhouse! I started my seedlings in it using dixie cups. I think I'll probably use plastic next year as they aren't holding up to well.

Growing lots of things for the first time this year as I sent away for the free seeds for a SASE to wintersown.org ang gardenhoard.com. I was so happy with both of the offers I recieved! 6 different kinds of heirloom tomatoes from wintersown, I let them pick the varieties as they're all new to me. I'm really excited about growing my first yellow tomato and the amazon chocolate tomato they sent.

Also growing loofa gourd for the first time this year!