Full Summer Swing

One of the benefits of having this gardening blog is to help me plan out my own gardens better. I can't tell you how many times I've accidentally dug up bulbs from spring flowers that have passed their prime when I'm planting a new exciting perennial plant late in the season.  Argh.  The obvious hope is that, with proper documentation, in a few years, our gardens will be full and showy each month of the summer....and also experience less accidental bulb excavation.  A girl can dream, right?  Well, so far all of the pics I've posted have been from the spring, so here are some more recent shots of our summer gardens.

There is the vegetable garden up by the chicken shack.  That tomato plant on the right side of the garden is actually a ROGUE PLANT!  One day we discovered a little tomato foliage peeking up through the forgotten soil mound we had gathered, and so we just went with it!  We credit that sole rogue tomato plant for getting us going on the rest of the garden... and then the clearing began! 

(Left) The lovely Mr. Vernon and his pumpkins.  These things grow noticeably everyday... the pumpkins.  I was feeling ambitious and bought the "Competition Size" seeds... thank you Lucy & Ward for planting them.  (Right) Look at the pumpkins only a week later!

 

The Black Raspberries are coming along beautifully!  Still not enough leftover for jam after the birds got them. But they've been wonderful in smoothies and fresh-squeezed lemon-aide.

Wild Phlox is amazingly showy this year.  Again, this was nowhere to be found last year.  Always exciting to see things comes and go.

and last but not least, HAPPY BIRTHDAY SWEETIE!