Picking favas and lot's to learn about posting photos....

Picked my first big harvest of favas on Saturday!  Oh, so much work to get on the table and oh, so worth it!

I think I will post photos one at a time for now on; look at all that empty space on my iris posting below!  I couldn't figure out how to manipulate the imagines and the language.  There are only so many hours in the day!

Just for you Kathleen!

After the rain on Kathleen's birthday. She gave me these iris on her first visit here. She thought she brought me two varieties but it was Four! One for sure is from Uncle Ray's garden.  One is from Alma's garden. 

So much for lists

Uh, March 22nd I was going to start listing plants I have put in my garden. Well, my propensity for not following through in any journal is still the same as it has always been, poor! But it is a rainy day and I will be at my desk most of it so onward, to desk organization and garden lists! If only the card in my camera hadn't self destructed I would post a few pictures as well.

Just lists

I am going to try to just post all the names of the plants I have been putting in the garden.  I moved into the Road House in June of 2008.  And I just work too many hours to have the time to plant, care for, harvest, cook, and then live my life to have the time for me to write very often.  Maybe, just maybe, if I catch up....I can send a bit of time in writing rather than listing.

Peter's b-day gift from Donna

Planted in the front garden, Acer Palmatum 'Fireglow"

seeds under my new grow ight

today's seed planting:
cherries jubilee tomatoes
bandy wine tomato (only one in the seed packet!)
Saint Pierre tomato, an old French variety that is beefsteak like
tomato fiaschetto di manduria, an Italian plum tomato
white eggplant
basque peppers
salpiglosis "stained glass"
basil napoletano
common sage

transplanted english peas "coral'

New Shrubs In My Shady Spot

We have planted two Mahonia lamarifolia or Chinese Holly-Grape. Prickly, prehistoric looking.  Tall and wide full grown.  The 'grapes' make good jam, I've read. Looks like one of them will have to be moved!