How Does My Garden Grow?..........

I am still learning the art of weeding, watering and harvesting my garden. I am amazed at how the garden bursts forth after a rain--including the weeds. I love the organization of rows, and weeding them ~ up and down. We planted the raspberries all around the fence line of the interior garden, and I found some beautiful trellises on clearance, which keeps the raspberries straight and easier to pick.


We had such a cold spring here in Creston, we are behind about a month. The lettuce is getting to be a respectable size, but we have yet to see a cucumber, carrot, beet or a melon spring forth. Perhaps it will be too late or not warm enough for some of the items in our garden this year to bloom and grow, but its been a good learning curve for next's year garden. My goal is to have a greenhouse, and to start things off in there, rather than covering my mudroom floor with seeds and containers for weeks in the spring!


I have currents and gooseberries in the far end of the garden. I have found out that gooseberries are incrediably high in Vit "C". The one green bush was attacked by some sort of pest, but the currents and the red gooseberry is perfect and pest-free.


Where my heart lies is the Flower Garden ~ I have yet to have an actually "organized" garden, but when the fence is finished in the back I can start to have an organized Rose Garden, safe from the mouths of the deer & elk that roam in the back ravine. My plan is to have a raised bed that will level the un-even ground that drops off near the enterance of the back ravine. I found a beautiful pair of Rose Trees in a "Julia Child" Rose. Its buttery pale yellow roses are a lovely compliment to any garden. I was thrilled to find them on discount at Home Depot last week for $17.49/ea. Amazing to me, as when I first became aware of them 20 years ago they were $120.00/ea. I am blessed!