in the mid-morning hours of a brisk and blissful sunday, in the glory of a charming and colourful mid-october, in a pleasant little nook of north carolina, i took myself {and my camera} on a spontaneous date with nature…
… and we both needed it.
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{saturdays in the garden : volume seven}
8 Juljust a little update on the garden… my posts are not in “real time,” as it were… i’m several weeks behind in keeping up with what’s going on, currently.
for example, most of what you see in the following fotos, has been pulled from my plot. we are straight up in the heat of summer here in NC, and my tomatoes are just about all that remain. i pulled up all my broccoli, because i didn’t get it in the ground soon enough and it never formed a head. i harvested one beautiful cabbage that i’m currently making sauerkraut with. my cilantro is done… as is my dill and basil, but i planted more of both. i pulled my kale and planted arugula in its place. and my cucumbers are on their last limb, but i must’ve harvested around 200 of them this season. i have pickles for days! 😉
july will be focused on tomatoes. then in mid august, i will plant more cabbage and cucumbers and perhaps try again for more peas later in the month or toward september. i really enjoy making {and eating} sauerkraut, so i intend to plant a lot more cabbage for fall.
meanwhile, here are some pics of what late may/june were like in my plot :
so pretty and ALIVE!
still fascinated by pea tendrils… and i made lots of pesto with my basil!
oh kale, yeah!
harvest!
my beautiful cabbage! Continue reading
{foodie friday : the teeniest strawberry}
9 Jun
actually, the teeniest strawberries probably grow wild in our back yard…
but i don’t think these are edible… 😉
{a make-up blog : saturdays in the garden – volume six}
29 Maythings 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??! 🙂
{portrait of an egg}
17 Mayfarm fresh eggs are just so beautiful! and they are so much more nutrient-dense than store-bought eggs!
i hope to have backyard chickens one day in the near future!
i just love all the colours!
and the flavour can’t be matched! farm fresh is the best!
i just love the variety… eat the rainbow!
#eggportraits
{saturdays in the garden – volumes four & five}
13 Mayi have been slightly slacking with updates on the garden. i have so many fotos to share, that i’m lumping {2} volumes together 🙂
a couple weeks ago, we had some eagle scouts come help in the garden. it was fun to see the boys get so excited about digging and planting.
as we prepped some of the community beds, we found some sweet potatoes! the boys were super excited about this part of the day! they collected probably 3 dozen or so, and i overheard one of them saying, “we are going to donate these!” – so charming. 🙂
i personally got so excited about this little frog i found under one of the tarps… i moved him away from the garden and let him go on his way…
planting beans!
planted okra in these plots…
radishes are so rewarding because they grow so fast!
we also planted some green onions and swiss chard…
i love it when someone brings coffee!
our garden leader shared some honey from last years harvest!! nom nom Continue reading
{saturdays in the garden – volume three}
15 Aprthings are moving along nicely at the community garden…
it’s so rewarding to interact with other people who are just as passionate as i am about gardening. having us all come together and work as a team to prep the beds and tend to the crops is just such a marvelous reality. it’s something i really wish that every single person on the planet could and would experience.
last week, we had some eagle scouts come and help work in the garden. it was quite fun seeing their excitement as they helped move tarps and logs and plant seeds. we uncovered some potatoes from last season and the boys were very eager to collect them all and “donate them” – which was so endearing.
i am forever grateful to be a part of this community garden and it pleases my soul so tremendously to engage in it all. my cucumbers, along with other plants, are sprouting and the peas are growing quite nicely… i can’t wait to share those fotos next week!
in the meantime, here are some fotos of recent days at the garden… i hope you enjoy.
things are growing!! radishes and lettuce…
kale and peppers…
tools!
laying mulch around the blueberry bushes…
looks so good!
transplanting raspberries…
i can’t wait to get my paws on some of those!!
fig trees! oh my, i’m excited about these, too!!!
happy bees!
side note : would you believe i got stung AGAIN!? this time – right on my nose! – i was shocked. the garden leader thinks it may have been my sunscreen, so i switched to an unscented version. let’s hope that helps! if you follow me on instagram, you saw the story. annoyingly hilarious. Continue reading
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