Edible Landscapes

Here are some early shots of the Edible Landscapes garden earlier in the season.  More pictures to come!!

Master Gardeners

Here are some pictures of the Master Gardeners hard at work!  I would like to thank Julie Weisenhorn for sending them to us.

Warm Weather

The last couple days have been so hot, but today was gorgeous!!  Tomorrow we're planning on mulching the walking paths all day.

We set up the tripod sprinkler.

Bug catchers!

Dave and Alex discussing the new layout.

Morgan

Beautiful Day for Watering

Came in today to do some weekend watering.  Took a few shots of the garden.  It seems like a lot of the flowers bloomed overnight.

Morgan

Hot Day

Today I just mulched and watered.  It was pretty uneventful, but very humid.  Everything is doing fine, and *knock on wood* hopefully it all survives next week.  We are supposed to be having some 90 degree weather.

Morgan

Mulching

It feels like this week has been quite eventful.  On Monday, Dave and I were weeding when large drops of rain started coming down.  We didn't mind the rain so we kept on weeding.  Suddenly, as I'm leaning down to pull a thistle, I think to myself: This rain is coming down kinda hard.  Then I see the marble-sized hail balls bouncing on the ground!  The hail didn't last long, though.  

On Tuesday the Master Gardeners came out to plant their section.  Fencing had to be put up because the rabbits are chewing on our plants.

The Master Gardener section.

Garrett and Dave looking at the new tree Dave put in.

We added a lot of perennials on Tuesday.  Dave planted the plum and cherry trees as well.  On Wednesday we finally began mulching!!  I feel like I'm a bit more excited about it than Dave, but the garden looks so clean and the plants are more defined now that we have a lot of mulch laid out.  My arms felt like Jell-O by the end of the day from constantly shoveling and hauling the large wheelbarrow up the hill by the crab apple trees.  I was relieved to finally finish that dreadful hill on Thursday.

Other than that, this week has been filled with watering, watering, and some more watering.

Morgan

June 1, 2011

Amy has been reading my e-mail. 

Vacant Lot with Pokeweed   
by Amy Clampitt

Tufts, follicles, grubstake
biennial rosettes, a low-
life beach-blond scruff of
couch grass: notwithstanding
the interglinting dregs

of wholesale upheaval and
dismemberment, weeds do not
hesitate, the wheeling
rise of the ailanthus halts
at nothing--and look! here's

a pokeweed, sprung up from seed
dropped by some vagrant, that's
seized a foothold: a magenta-
girdered bower, gazebo twirls
of blossom rounding into

raw-buttoned, garnet-rodded
fruit one more wayfarer
perhaps may salvage from
the season's frittering,
the annual wreckage.

Dave