Mavis Butterfield | Backyard Garden Plot Pictures – Week 21 of 52

Backyard Garden Plot Pictures – Week 21 of 52

I plan on spending all day in the garden today. My online boyfriend Ryan from Botanical Interests is coming to visit me in less than 2 weeks when he’s up here for the Mother Earth News Fair and I want to have my garden in tip top shape.

On the agenda for today is whipping up a few batches of potting soil, watering the garden, pulling weeds, spreading a yard of bark in the front yard, cleaning off the front porch {it’s a disaster} and getting my pumpkins planted. I’d also like to tackle the raspberry patch and get the greenhouse in order too.  I believe in miracles, don’t you?

I already told the kids we are not leaving the house today so we’ll see what gets done.

Here are a few pictures I snapped this morning while wandering around my backyard with a cup of tea in my bathrobe.

The wood pallet garden is looking good. I plan on harvesting more lettuce for a salad tonight.

Inspector Lucy followed me outside early this morning to check on the 16 raised garden boxes. She loves those French breakfast radishes and now every time we go near them she sits by the garden bed and waits for me to pull one up for her. What a nut!

The pea and potatoes are growing really well. I do need to get some twine and help the peas up the teepee poles though.

The greenhouse is still a work in progress. I plan on making another batch of my homemade potting soil and adding some black pots {for growing tomatoes} down the center of the greenhouse today.

I reported the progress of our potato towers last week. So far so good. If you look real hard you will also see potato plants coming out of the wood pallet compost bin. I’m not sure how a potatoes got in there {My guess is Lucy had something to do with it} but we now have potatoes growing in the compost bin. Ha! I wonder what they will taste like.

Here is a view from the back deck. I think I need less bark and more dirt.

We planted a mini pea patch right smack in the middle of the shaded backyard. And guess what? They love it there. Fava beans, Swiss chard and kale line the perimeter of the chicken run.

The raspberry patch had become a bit unruly again.

Here is a view of the raspberry patch from the kitchen window. Our 12 blueberry bushes are just beyond the raspberries on the left. For some reason the blueberries are kind of tricky to photograph, but I’ll try and get a decent photo so you can see how tall the 1 gallon bushes we planted 4 years ago are getting.

The herbs we have growing in container are growing really well too. I still have a few tiny rosemary starts I want to get planted. I need to check Costco and see if they have anymore of those huge brown pots in stock. Have you been lately?  Are they still selling them?

Well that’s a bout it for this weeks garden tour.

I’m off to pull weeds!

Have a great day everyone.

~Mavis

This years garden is being sponsored by the awesome folks at Botanical Interests Seed Company.  You can check out their website HERE, order their new 2013 Garden Seed Catalog HERE, or visit my boyfriend Ryan’s blog HERE.