My Garden - PIC heavy - 1st harvest - Post 38

[WingingIt]

It looks amazing and I'm jealous that you're harvesting already. I'm still quite a ways away from harvesting but do have everything in the ground and most of it is up. Great garden! Thanks for sharing pics!

 

[wingnut1]

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Monique - That is your harvest and you are a newbie gardener??? Goodness!!!

You are talented!

I'll bet some of your parterres gardens would look wonderful with herbs - rosemary, thyme, lavender - and another option is to create butterfly/hummingbird parterres gardens - have some plants for butterfly larvae (like dill, parsley), and then some nectar plants (salvia, butterfly bush, abelia, and you could fill in with annuals like pentas... ) -

If they have brick, I'll bet they get HOT in the summer -- so a doog edging plant would be sedum. We have to have this conversation over iced tea, eh?

Many of the things you learned for the veggie garden apply - you clearly understand soil.. and the great news about gardening is that its what is pleasing to your eye that matters.. *smile* -

You might want to look u knockout roses - I would think it would be very humid for most roses where you are - unless you are willing to spray them almost weekly for pests and mold problems, I'd look into these knockout roses - they aren't much the first year or two - but year 3? FAB!

 

[mrsgibber]

Lucky you to be harvesting already! So jealous.

It all looks so yummy.

 

[TerriLaChicks]

Fantastic garden! VERY good for a first time attempt!
I have found that the David Austen old English roses outperform every other variety in our heat & humidity here in Louisiana. I hardly ever have to spray them (if you do use Bonide all seasons horticultural spray-it's all natural & safe to use on everything-I use it on my roses, citrus trees, epiphyllums) & they bloom prolifically & have the most amazing fragrance too!
Congratulations on your beautiful garden!

 

[ruth]

Here's some pics of my herb garden I also just planted a couple of months ago. Already, things are going to seed but I like the flowers and can't possibly use all the herbs - besides, I planted herbs I don't even know how to use. I bought a book to give me some ideas of uses. Today, I'm going to pick quite a few and dry them in my dehydrator.

Here's a shot of last night's pickins from the veggie garden - and - the plums are coming in - those are the small red things in pics. I have to pick them before they get really ripe and dark purple or the birds get them first. It's a huge old tree and even with a ladder I can't reach the top so the birds get all of those:

I'm really enjoying my garden and my DH is really enjoying that I'm cooking again.

 

[mrsengeseth]

Wow, beautiful!! I am still filling my raised beds and hoping for the best. Not much is getting harvested here in the rocky mountains!

 

[CoyoteMagic]

Chicken Poo does the garden good!!

(so does goose, duck, turkey, guinea and all the other poo filled critters!!)

 

[ruth]

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Yep, that's what makes my gardens grow. Two months ago it was all dirt and seeds.

 

[mfsakc]

What a beautiful, bountiful harvest!! I'm sooo jealous. I won't get my first tomotoe until July.

I think I see Dill in your herb garden. Here's a recipe for you since you are picking homegrown tomatoes.

Big, thick slice of tomatoe
Sprinkle with some fresh dill
Put a thin slice of good cheddar cheese over the dill
And then place under the broiler.

Yum!

 

[ruth]

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Thanks - that sounds good I'll have to give it a try. I do have dill and two kinds of fennel growing in the herb gardens. I read they have to be kept separated so there is one in each garden. I have the two separate brick herb gardens that surround the sunporch and I have the tire herb garden in my vegetable garden - that's where the dill is and it has gotten huge and is blooming now.