Garden Time

I've been very lax about garden photos this year. Maybe I don't want to jinx it, since last year was the worst year I have ever had in my gardening life, and was also the year I documented it every week.

Things look pretty good so far, though, so I'll just have to hope we don't have any insect explosions or significant weather events that destroy everything.

Let's tour the garden, shall we? Starting out the back door . . .

Down the steps A. made for me, and there's the asparagus back there by the fence behind the clothesline.

Along that fencing on the left of the photo is a row of sugar snap peas, and to the left are three rhubarb plants.

The next bed has more rhubarb, three raspberries, and one tiny strawberry plant that you can barely see on the left.

Over the low stone wall is the garlic and shallots. Plus the apricot tree, which survived the hail last year but isn't going to fruit this year.

Recently planted cabbages and a few tomatoes, still in their milk jug greenhouses. In that sunken tub are green onions protected by a milk jug, and a lot of dill.

This box has a few lettuce plants and some self-seeded calendula.

Lots more cabbages and kohlrabi. There's a row of turnips in there, too, I think. The beets, carrots, and parsnips have not yet appeared.

Radishes, spinach, and something I forget.

Green beans in that trench that haven't come up yet, which are right next to . . .

The peach tree that has weensy little peaches on it, yay!

And the bulb garden, which at the moment only has decorative alliums blooming, with the asiatic lilies still to come.

Still to plant are the rest of the many tomatoes, basil, squash, and cucumbers. Then to water, weed, and pray it doesn't all get flattened by hail.