How does your garden grow?

It took me a while but as promised - the new apple stick tree! (Spitzenburg) Or as I more affectionately refer to it, the fluffy apple stick.


In a few more years it'll look more like other fluffily apple stick. ;^) (Honey Crisp)


Overall the garden is doing well this year despite the cool wet weather. We had a great fiery sunset the other night.


Our pea pods have formed but alas, no peas as of yet. ::le sigh::


Chives are still blooming. I love their happy little bobby heads!


Strawberries are green too.


Our first tomato! I hope they're not all nearly greenies like last year. That was pretty disappointing.


In years past I've had a lot of trouble with everything under the sun eating my artichokes. I finally wised up a bit and moved them. So far the only the slugs have found them and I took care of it quick with Sluggo Plus. That was that. Now if I can just keep the aphids from locating them when the weather warms up I'll be good and might even get an artichoke or two this year! If they do show up, I've got a new trick up my sleeve. Ha!


With most of my attention going to the back yard my poor front yard has been entirely neglected. My sis came over to help me weed and brought her nice calm happy daughter. My kid on the other hand... well, I can say it's never dull around here! (and yes, she dressed herself)

Rain, rain, go away...

I can't believe it's been a month since I last posted. Really, there hasn't been much to talk about in the garden. Even worse then the last couple of years we've had a lot of cold and wet and cold and wet. Of course we're not as bad off as some of the midwest states with tornados and now the hurricane season is upon us. Nope, just cold and wet up here in the PNW. Still, it makes for frustratingly slow gardening. We're about a month + behind our usual timeline and we can't seem to warm up enough to get anything to grow with any sort of expediency. I think we've had maybe three days this whole year so far that have gotten up above 70*. You can imagine how excited I'll be this weekend then when we should see some 80* temps. Yes, I'm holding my breath.

OH, one thing that did happen. I replaced the dead peach tree. I picked up a Spitzenberg Apple stick tree. Scrawny little thing. I know in about five years it'll actually look like a tree but right now it looks a bit like a fluffy stick. I'll have to remember to take a picture and share with everyone soon. It's rather not exciting to look at now, ah but I see potential!


Of course nice cool weather crops are loving it, radishes abound!


The grape arbor that hubby hacked together for me is workin' just fine. The grapes even have wee little grapes on them! Yay! First time since I planted it two years ago... that'll be exciting. I hope they ripen enough so we can try them later this summer.


Our very green blueberries.


I love it when the chives bloom, they're so pretty.


The spinach may have refused to grow but at least this year the beets are happy!


...a bit of an overview with lettuce and peas and brassicas, etc. We've been eating a lot of salads lately... I say that like it's a good thing, cause it is.


Mmmm! Salad!


Sweet little ladybug hangin' out on the sage plant.


Baby broccoli. I'm looking forward to my summer stir-fry!


The Italian flat leafed parsley (shown here) and the cilantro are both also loving this wet weather. Perfect for leafy herbs.... this batch went into some dressing I made for the salad shown above. Delish.