If you don't know where our garden started...
click here and
click here to see our humble beginnings...
Unfortunately the eco-friendly pest control we tried on the lawn didn't work, we have more ants than when we started...so I lost that battle...hub gets to pick the next product. I am glad we tried though!
In no particular order...here are update photos from our trial and error container garden.
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| Don't know if I had bum seeds, or a poor soil mixture but no seedlings emerged :( |
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| These are actually itty bitty strawberries from the strawberry pot you'll see below. They were sour, but the plant is flowering :) |
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| This is the olive tree we planted last year. Somewhere there's a pic of it as a baby, but I can't find the page so I'll add the link later. |
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| Radishes take two. The first pot of radishes was a porcelain pot, the day after they were planted it POURED and the seeds were flooded out...note, it hasn't rained since! |
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| Look closely...there's spinach trying to flex it's muscle |
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| Burgundy Beans |
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| Bush Beans |
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| The rescued Dwarf Banana and it's brother...both doing very well |
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| Honey Berries |
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| Green Onions...they look a little weak to me but they're trying |
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| heh heh...just in case you missed the fennel failure earlier |
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| Green Pepper and Oregano. This is my FAVORITE pot. The peppers are fantastic and I snip the Oregano for dinner daily! |
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| Cubanelles |
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Patio Tomatoes.
This plant actually looks worse than the original picture. Lost lots of leaves to leaf miners
But the fruit...is FANTASTIC this is a GREAT tomato, very flavorful.
We've harvested a couple of pounds already. |
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| aforementioned strawberry pot |
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| chives... |
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| top hat blueberry |
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| Rosemary (s) the hemispherectomy was a success :) |
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| I'm excited to see the corn barrels successfully producing! Next week I'll thin the stalks to the healthiest specimens |
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| as I mentioned, we've gone weeks without rain so my cilantro bolted...now harvesting coriander and may try to start some from seed. I snapped the picture before I pruned the basil...harvesting seeds from these too because one can NEVER have too much basil! |
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| pole beans! |
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| mint...the other one is still there, just not thriving as much as the one on the left |
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| my 'cut it all the way back and see if it returns' experiment |
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| my new garden cart from the hub :) |
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| Portabello rice bowl |
Okay so the pic doesn't look very appetizing but this dish DELICIOUS and made with some ingredients from the yard.
- Basmati (cooked)
- Black beans (drained)
- 3 portabello mushrooms cut in large cubes
- patio tomatoes, gutted and sliced (garden)
- basil leaves (garden)
- oregano leaves (garden)
- 1/2 small wheel of brie
- 2 Tbsp of salted butter
- sprinkled with shredded parmesean
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| Garden Salsa |
This was FANtastic!
All of the main ingredients came from the garden
I added one onion (because ours aren't ready yet)
FRESH is Salsa is the bomb!
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