Mavis Butterfield | Backyard Garden Pictures 5/18/14

I don’t know about you, but I LOVE walking through the garden and seeing box after box of garden boxes filled with GREEN. 🙂 I makes my heart happy. 

We have a lot on our plate this year so for the first time since 2008, I planted a small garden {well, small for me anyway} with just 10 garden boxes, a pallet garden, greenhouse garden and various fruit trees, berries, and bushes sprinkled around the property.

One of my favorite things about this time of year is that there always seems to be something ready to harvest. Last month it was chives and lettuce, this month, radishes.

Lot’s and lot’s of radishes. 🙂

Another one of my favorite things to look forward to this time of year is out hillside planted with vinca minor. We planted it the first summer we were here to prevent the mini hillside along our house from sliding. Holy cannoli’s, has it ever worked. {And as an added bonus, the vinca attracts tons of fuzzy bumble bees every spring and fall}.

Lucy the puggle dog on patrol. 

I think we are going to have a bumper crop of raspberries this summer.

And the strawberries? Ha! I thought I dug them all up from this little patch last fall. Apparently not.

And last but not least, our 12 blueberry bushes that we planted in the spring of 2008 seem to be producing a ton of flowers this spring. Talk about a good sign for a great blueberry harvest.

Summer. I think it’s finally on it’s way.

~Mavis

This years garden is being sponsored by the folks at Botanical Interests Seed Company. You can check out their website HERE, order their new 2014 Garden Seed Catalog HERE.