Walkabout Tour

I begin by looking back on previous blogs of the garden around this same time and marvel at the crazy things we've done. It's quite a journey of our life here on our meager one acre and given us a feeling of great joy and accomplishment. With Brent being able to spend more time on projects since his retirement our yard is looking amazing right now. 

The pond is his pride and joy. We were so excited to see a baby goldfish! However we haven’t seen it lately...hopefully it’s just hiding. Pond is still a work in progress but the leak has been fixed and we planted lots of new plants and shrubs. I still want one more...a rhododendron. Might have to wait until next spring.

Pics of pond were taken May 31

This year I decided to try the upside down buckets with a twist. I planted cucumbers in the bottom and tumbling tomatoes in the top. The tomatoes are doing great considering they are only 7 weeks at this point. Brent started the cucumbers back in Mar but they were stunted either by overwatering or cold but they are still hanging in there!

Pics taken June 9

Hanging baskets are filling in beautifully...and to think only 4 wave petunias in this pot!

Another tumbling tomato 

Pic taken Jun 14

Basil is hard for me to grow...

These are Brent’s tomatoes that he started back in March...like the cucumbers they too were slow but not giving up!

This is a Black Krim tomato that I bought from a fellow quilter. She started hers beginning of March! Apparently this is supposed to be a very large fruit!

So exciting...our first pickings!

These begonias are the deepest, richest red ever...I just love them!

I may have gone a bit too far with Lightroom on these closeups🥴

So many compliments on the coleus...very striking 

This pussywillow tree is doing so well in this corner

As you can see, I have planted cauliflower and cabbage everywhere! And there is still more...the bonsai was an accident. I thought it would look good in the wheelbarrow but I decided to do it right and bought the bonsai pot and soil

If you look closely I have planted so many things in these boxes...lettuce, kale, cauliflower...oh and pansies!

It’s been a while since I grew dahlias...I hate digging them up in the fall

Geraniums that I overwintered and have had no place to repot

Astilbe 

Tops of my milk cans

Chives!

My first rose blooms...this rose is not what I bought! ...and the perennial geraniums do not die! I have dug so many up and they keep on coming...

....and this rose is supposed to be a climber? Its beautiful...

...again several tomatoes planted in buckets 

Sedum...

There’s a couple tomato plants in here too!

Pontentilla filling in

This has filled in quite a lot...love, love 💗 

Note to self...June 12th ...spread some worm castings, azomite and cinnamon around base of fruit trees. Brent applied another application of tanglefoot to trees...sidedressed everything else (pots, hanging baskets, raised beds and bales) with 4-4-4