July 1 Garden

Here is my favorite gardening pal checking for strawberries (or berry-berries, as she calls them)--she looks left...
she looks right...

a little closer to see if we've missed anything...

she's very good to check under the foilage.

Sadly, she ate her last berry-berry for a few weeks on Monday. In the month of June, we would check, and she would eat 4 or 5 every day. Every time I would pop one into her mouth, she would say, "ummmmmmmm....!" She's so appreciative!

Here is a Celebrity tomato, with loads right behind. The Super-Fantastic is fantastic, the Amish Paste, Health Kick, and Victoria Grape tomatoes are all looking good.

My new raspberry bramble has four bushes. Only one will give us a few berries this year, but wait til next year!

Here are my beans. There are lots of them! (Sunflowers are in the background)

The bean plants are LOADED with blossoms. Yum!

Red grapes are promising a good harvest come September!

Here's an overall shot of the garden, with my pal helping me check things out.

She's busy--back and forth, back and forth!

The garlic has scapes on it--you can take the scape (the top) and peel away the white outside, and saute or roast the inside. I used some the other night in my pizza sauce.

We moved the compost pile to a more accessable place, too. I think it likes it.

Here we have green onions, Walla Walla Sweet onion, and leeks. This is the first time I've ever tried leeks.

If you look closely down towards the bottom of the pepper plant, you'll see one of four peppers growing.

A tiny cucumber...

A little zucchini...

The zucchini overall is kind of going crazy.

Here's K's beets. They should be ready next week. We'll try roasting them.

My flower pot overfloweth.

This is my new white peach tree, with ONE peach on it. Unfortunately, we learned too late that you should NEVER prune a peach tree, except for branches that cross. Hence, the new peach tree. The old one bit the dust.

The roses can hardly contain themselves.

Need I say more?

The zinnia are coming along nicely. I took these pictures last night, the first zinnia popped open this morning.

The lavendar is...lavendar. Really, it smells terrific.

Here's my little pal, taking a break. You just missed us sharing an otter pop.

The most beautiful flower in the garden!

Here's the first of two new additions to the front gardens. A lovely, lightweight sandstone rock to grace the garden closest to the house. This one weighs in at 194 pounds. I love the coloring and the stripes.

His big brother (two views here), out in the garden nearer the street, weighs in at 1040 pounds. You should have seen the two guys trying to wrestle this bad boy off the truck! The garden itself needs a little overhauling. We had two guys that needed jobs yank out the junipers, for starters. That was not a fun job.

That's it for now. I hope you've enjoyed the tour of my garden. I'll show you more on August 1.