pictures from the garden and yard

'champion blue' bellflower campanula. my mom took me to the garden center after the garage sale and i blew some cash. i think this flower is beautiful and would like to have lots more of it! its a very stiff firm flower, holding its shape despite high winds and downpour rains. and such a pretty color too. i dont think this location is a good permanent location for it, but i wanted it in back where i could look at it every day. its so pretty!


raised bed. down on the bottom are sugar beets. moving up from there are ground cherries on the left, bellflower on the right. halfway up are 2 zucchini plants. sweet onions and more ground cherries intermixed everywhere. at the top are two rows of carrots.


strawberries are doing fabulous. biggest crop i've ever gotten this year.


so yummy and sweet and super juicy.


drainage ditch project. the grass is growing great! need to finish the drain part. need some kind of drain tubing to go under the fence to keep the hole/ditch open. need blocks to line the bottom of the ditch with. need to extend the ditch past the fence along the side of the garage up to the lilac bushes. however, the grass is still very young and tender and delicate and the dogs have already ruined a couple spots. but the water is draining away from where i want it away, and going to where i want it to go. that wasnt happening before. so even half finished its still helpful.


three kinds of sedum, planted out front. 'neon' stonecrop sedum on the left rear. 'bertram anderson' sedum on the right rear. 'vera jameson' stonecrop sedum down in front (spread into two branches heading left and right).


the transplanted day lilies have really taken off out front. i probably should have spaced them further out!