garden photos end of may

cauliflower, brussels sprouts, and broccoli


tomatoes


celeriac


my lone peanut plant isnt doing too good. i didnt cover it during the frost that i covered all the tomatoes.


onions


rye


rye close up


zucchini


watermelon


more watermelon


cantaloupe


more cantaloupe


sunflowers


beans


shredded leaves for mulching. last fall this was full up to the top.


asparagus


stevia


basil that i didnt cover up from the frost


more basil



the jicama died in the frost. the sugar beets i planted never came up. the maple tree seeds/helicopters were spread ALL over my garden, as you can see.

cleaning the gutters with dogs around

in the future i should REALLY lock the dogs in the house when i clean out the gutters. they think the gross disgusting half rotted gutter slop is delicious *gag* and stand right under where i'm tossing it out and end up covered in it. then they run away when i try to hose the stink off them. i'm nearly as soggy as the damn dogs are after catching them and hosing them down. that gutter slop is some seriously awful putrid crap. but between the ash tree and the maple tree, TONS of stuff falls off the trees in spring. oh well. i needed a shower anyway.

puppy all wet and soggy from me cleaning all the goop out of the gutter and him rolling in it.


molly is sniffing and eating the goop


i made quite the mess


most of the goop ended over here on the tree roots

molly and sweetpea

molly got a toy from the vets office because i bought either the flea and tick prevention, or the heartworm prevention. it was a cute toy, but it was knitted, and ripped apart in seconds.


sweetpea trying to escape. i heard her making quite the racket in her enclosure behind me. the computer is in the same room as sweetpea. this is what i turned around to see. she's keeping an eye on me...

thinning the baby pear nubs

i thinned the parker tree. all i did was thin each cluster down to only one pear. there were usually 3, but up to 5 pear nubs per cluster.

this is what 236 parker pear buds look like


parker buds


luscious pear buds, i thinned off 70 of them


luscious buds


summercrisp, thinned 70




patten cluster of 5


patten thinned 206




the patten pear nubs were quite scratched/scabbed. it happens when the nubs rub against anything, like other nub stems, leaf stems, branches, anything. and the patten tree is my littlest tree of all the four. it fruited so prolifically everything was crowded and rubbing.


patten


luscious cluster of only 3

flowers out front

the first new flower bed i dug out front


now with flowers in it! marigolds down in front, canterbury bells above them, calendula up against the sedum at top.


the two surviving sedum from last year. i planted them too close together.


the sedum i bought to replace the one that died over winter


it rolled around in the truck and knocked off a bunch of leaves. the internets said i could grow plants from the leaves, so i figured what the hell, and stuck the broken off leaves in potting soil. its been a month since this photo and i dont know if anything is happening or not.

my little zoo

crunch n munch with sweetpea


another day, another shot of puppy and his afghan love


mollys choice of napping spots means squishing herself between the couch and the dog bed rather than laying on either.

pear trees and baby pear nubs

luscious pear tree


parker


summercrisp


patten


baby pear nubs, patten tree


summercrisp


parker


luscious