My Dad’s Garden

The garden at my Dad’s house is doing well.  We were out and about and so I took a few pictures to post here.

Beans

Radishes

Tomatoes, basil, radishes,
hot peppers, eggplant

brussels sprouts, broccoli,
carrots, beans

A little too hot but still planted a lot

If the temps had been a little cooler, I think I would have found more energy to do more but I still did quite a bit.

First, I know I have posted many pictures of my pansies but I just can’t believe how they have been growing.

I brought outside the orange, avocado, and lemon trees and the lemon tree got a new pot.  I also planted a pot with marigolds and another with impatiens.  I have plans to plant more impatiens around the yard.  I had one eggplant that seemed to suddenly grow after we planted my dad’s garden so I put that in a pot to see what it does.  The collard greens are looking gorgeous and are about ready to be harvested.  I need to get more growing.  Here are some pictures of the front yard.

I brought these plants outside from being inside all winter:  aloe, mini rosebush, schefflera, rosemary, and lettuce.

Behind the tulips are my lemon, orange, and avocado trees.  The eggplant is in the dark green pot in the front.  Three of the pots next do the eggplant are collard greens, the other is thyme and sage.

 

 

 

 

 

Collard
Greens

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

At the Farmer’s Market on Saturday, there was a woman selling plants and she seemed to specialize in peppers and tomatoes because she had so many unique varieties.  I planted 6 topsy turveys and three hot pepper plants in pot.

In the topsy turveys I planted:

• Oregon Spring Tomato plant (I grew from seed)
• Roma Tomato plant (I grew from seed)
• Wisconsin 55 Tomato plant
• Plum Lemon Tomato plant
• Sweet Chocolate Pepper plant
• Serrano Pepper plant

 

In this pot I planted:

• Beaver Dam Pepper
• Black Hungarian Pepper
• Cayenne Pepper

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

My annual herbs in pots in my sunroom were looking pretty sad, so I cleaned them up, replanted them, and put them outside on my new plant stand.

The red pot on the right is lettuce.  The other red pot is basil.  In the black pots I planted, chamomile, cumin, parsley, cilantro, and more basil.

I was at my parent’s house yesterday and the raddishes, carrots and beans we planted have all sprouted.  I didn’t have my camera with so don’t have pictures but I will post when I get some.

As Summer Approaches…

I’m hoping to find some time next weekend to do some more planting but today I thought I would share some of the new growth.

First, my dad sent me this picture of the radishes that have sprouted in our raised beds.

The tulips I stole from the school next door have faded greatly from the shock of transplanting but I have high hopes of their beauty next spring.  The tulips I planted last fall are doing well though and I especially love this kind:

The pansies still look beautiful.

I don’t remember the name of this spring bulb flower but they are so dainty.

The peonies have really grown and I see the ants have already found them.

My lilies have started to poke through the soil.

My collard greens have probably quadrupled in size.

Every day the rhubarb gets significantly bigger.  I think it looks better than it ever did last year.

The lettuce outside has sprouted nicely.

Raised beds

At my dad’s we planted raised beds.  I wanted somewhere with more sun to grow my vegetables and my dad wanted someone to help him put in his raised beds.

We plan to cover both.  My dad just didn’t have hoops for both.  It’s a pretty simple concept.  Before filing the raised beds with dirt, we drilled PVC pipe to the sides.  My dad then bought PVC pipe slightly smaller than the PVC pipe we drilled to the frame and slid into the larger PVC piep.  We then used PVC clamps to hold the plastic in place.

Today we planted:

• tomatoes
• hot peppers
• carrots
• radishes
• green beans
• eggplant
• broccoli
• brussels sprouts

Beautiful Spring weekend

 

 

 

So I finally took advantage the soft soil from lots of rain and the hundreds of tulips along the school wall.  These are the tulips I transplanted.

 

 

 

 

 

And here they are planted:

These tulips were especially beautiful.

I love the hyacinths.

The rhubarb is growing nicely and so I planted two more rhubarb plants I picked up at the farmer’s market on Saturday.

The autumn joy and peonies are also growing nicely.

Now I’m headed to my parents to plant our raised beds.  These are the plants I’m bringing.  I’ll share more pictures after we plant.