things are moving along quickly in the garden!! i actually harvested lots of kale this week and my dill is turning into a forrest! cilantro will only be here for a little while longer, and my peas are producing but will also begin to dwindle as the heat increases. i should be able to harvest some cucumbers next week. which means next month, i’ll be making some delicious pickles!! so so so excited about that!
on a community level, we have been donating over 15 pounds of collard greens each week and lots of radishes are going to donation, as well. our beans are starting to blossom, and the blueberries are coming in nicely. we also have tons of healthy tomato plants growing. june and july are the exciting months for gardening, as everything really starts to produce… i just love it.
and since i have fallen behind a little bit on updating on the garden, i am putting these fotos in gallery form, so i can squeeze them all into this post 🙂
{click on any photo to enlarge and scroll through gallery}
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- my basil cluster…
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- my peas…
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- my {donated} san marzano tomato
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- my other {donated} tomato – tasmanian chocolate!
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- my {transplanted} celery…
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- my cabbage…
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- my dill…
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- my cucumbers…
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- my cucumbers… a week later…
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- i love my garden!
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- i love my garden!
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- harvesting some of my cilantro…
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- community radishes!
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- setting up the drip system…
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- we thought this looked cool…
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- we got a ton of rain one night and this happened…
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- red clover in the community section…
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- a labyrinth sits not far from the garden… i like to walk in it from time to time.
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- honeycomb from our lovely bees!
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- cool mushroom…
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- hoein’ 😉
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- gettin’ dirty…
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- happy farmer…
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- one of the other volunteers made these with some kiddos…
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- they used some of the seashells i donated from beach-combing… so cute!
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- community blueberries!
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- basil going strong!
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- peas climbing the trellis…
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- i’m fascinated by the way peas grow…
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- so intricate…
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- pea blossoms!
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- lacinato kale…
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- celery…
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- a tomato i started from seed in the ground!
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- red kale…
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- mmm, cilantro…
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- second row of cilantro… i love the little sprouts!
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- aerial view of my san marzano…
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- cabbage going strong!!
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- pulling back cucumbers for vertical growing…
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- cucumbers taking over the trellis!
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- my first cucumber starting!
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- tons of dill!
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- from the outside, looking in…
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- my 4 x 8 plot!
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- my plot!
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a {sort of} pano of my plot…
from left to right, counter-clockwise-ish :
jalapeños {hidden, back row} basil {back row}, peas {along left trellis}, lacinato kale, tomatoes {middle}, cilantro, celery, more tomatoes {middle}, cabbage, more kale {middle}, romanesco, more tomatoes, {middle}, cucumbers {along right trellis}, and dill.
i kind of planted in a zig-zag pattern…
i also squeezed in a few spinach plants throughout, but i’m not sure how they’ll fare.
thanks for following along!
how is your garden looking??! 🙂
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