wow - once again I'm shocked to see the seasons changing so quickly. this past summer there has been some glorious growth in our garden. we have enjoyed an endless amount of fragrant basil, ridiculously juicy and sweet baby tomatoes, kale, lettuce, zinnias, cosmos, my buzzing bee garden, raspberries, blueberries (we picked loads of blueberries at a local farm and froze them for the winter), strawberries (same as the blueberries - only we picked 200lbs of the ruby red fruit) and lots of yummy peaches. and now it is the perfect time of year for those crisp autumn apples!
hope your summer was lovely!

bee garden in the early stage - it looks a LOT better now :)

STRAWBERRIES STRAWBERRIES STRAWBERRIES STRAWBERRIES STRAWBERRIES

fresh

glorious

stunning peonies and beach roses (in multiple hues) have bloomed in our garden.

flower power

Hello!

Yes, yes - YES it has been a long time since my last post. Nothing very exciting happened in the garden during the winter, seeing as the the ground was frozen. But now that the snow has melted and the plants are growing there is life (a lot of green)!

The crocuses came and went (lovely reminder that spring was here) and now the forthisia is in full bloom along with the gorgeous daffodils.

After the terrible ice storm (early December '08) we have TONS of debris and leaves to rack and pick up.

Today we planted a few raspberry bushes, yummy! Soon we will plant our flowers and vegetables. I've decided to plant a small garden for our bees. Bees pollinate our plants making our flowers and veggies so much stronger. We need to help the bees by providing them with plants that they love such as:

a. white boltonia
b. jupiter's beard
c. zagreb tickseed
d. catmint
e. shasta daisy
f. michaelmas daisy
g. siberian iris
h. snowdrop
i. blue jacket hyacinth
j. lily-flowered tulip
k. fortissimo daffodil

go and get your hands dirty - plant!

happy spring! happy almost may day! happy almost summer! and happy almost STRAWBERRY season!!
xoxo

End of the bloom

I am quite amazed at the amount of growth and life we had in our garden this year. Most of the flowers began blooming in 

late June - early July. It is now October 26th and today I picked the last colorful flower in our garden. Our flowers were beautiful, healthy and most of the plants survived a frost last week.

Pig Tale Girls are filling out a new form for a new grant from the Youth Venture group. We hope to be one of the 15 selected groups to be rewarded a 10,000 grant to pursue our ventures. We want to expand our garden into a berry farm.

In late August we planted 5 rows of blueberry plants, 5 rows of raspberry plants and 4 plum trees. 

Soon we will lay out our garden plans for next spring! 

yum

Following this post I shall post many pictures of our garden, veggies, and fruit that we grew and picked this year.

Enjoy snaps of strawberries, blueberries, zinnias... and more!