our leafy garden…

So we’ve been working our tails off to make a garden and a yard that’s productive and can sustain us. It felt like I got the lettuce in too late and the peas, (like it does every year) but they’re looking beautiful thanks to a mild spring.

So Asher and I went out yesterday in the drizzle and took way more pictures of things than I’m sure you wanted to see…but it really is beautiful to grow things that will grow you.

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the boy and his diggers … one a tonka and one a fiskars garden blade…. we roll his second-hand pants up at the waist cause they’re so big on him.

Tomatillos coming along nicely

His expression right before he stepped in the middle of the beans.

Asher acting like he’s going to down a potato plant

Heirloom Broccoli ‘Di Cicco’ – A very productive italian
variety. Produces copius amounts of small to medium sized heads well intosummer. Longer harvest period than most broccoli.

Lincoln peas

beets coming up

red lettuce

leafy green lettuce

Speckled butterhead lettuce – in the Slowfood Ark of Taste – http://www.slowfoodusa.org/index.php/programs/ark_product_detail/speckled_lettuce/

all three lettuces

ground cherries http://www.tradewindsfruit.com/ground_cherry.htm –

first fruits of tomatoes – one of the only non-heirloom varieties in the garden, Lemon Boy – the one I MUST buy every year because it’s so delicious – http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/30940/

three of asher being mischievous

beans

edamame (soy beans)

the beds (i wish I lived in a bed)

digging with a teensy steam shovel

the iris are looking lovely…

the ducks are growing. and pooping. they have to be the messiest creatures.

mint and lambs ears.
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