stoop basil.jpg

5/31/10

stoop cukes.jpg

taking off! planted cukes in place of the ravaged tomatoes.

5/28/10

Stoop lettuce.jpg

5/6/10

stoop lettuce.jpg

Progress!

5/28/10

Chiogga beets.jpg

Nothing beats a bucket o’ beets. (hard-ee har har)

5/6/10

beet it.jpg

Bucket o’ beets’ progress

5/28/10

beet bug.jpg

what a funny looking bug; its face looks like an aardvark.

5/31/10

beet moth.jpg

Not sure what this one is either.

5/31/10

raspberry bucket.jpg

5/6/10

stoop raspberry bucket.jpg

5/31/10

Guerrilla garden patch.jpg

I’m going to add some fencing at some point, and most likely move my beet bucket over here for extended sunlight hours.

5/6/10

Perennial plant.jpg

I thought this thing was dead. I planted it in my guerrilla garden patch anyway. It’s a perennial, returning to life!

5/6/10

Perennial progress.jpg

more shoots!

5/28/10

Globe Amaranth.jpg

Globe Amaranth seedlings get their second leaves in the great outdoors! This was a rough indoor start (thought they were on the imminent death track.)

5/6/10

guerrilla patch.jpg

Globe amaranth flowers developing true leaves in lower left corner

5/28/10

basil and strawberries.jpg

Suspended from the back deck.

5/6/10

ripening strawberry.jpg

5/26/10

alpine strawberry blooms.jpg

Finally! This is the poor plant that got re-potted four times. Something’s going alright in this jar; phew!

5/26/10

Alpine strawberries.jpg

The variety in the top and sides of my jar, Alpine, are going wild. At least 20 babies.

6/12/10

More Alpines.jpg

Miracle of fruit.

6/12/10

Alpine strawberry.jpg

first Alpine harvest, aka the Lone Alpine Ranger

6/17/10

back deck buckets.jpg

5/6/10

back deck buckets' progress.jpg

In order of appearance (L to R): German heirloom tomato plants sharing a pot with two cucumber sproutlettes, Dragon tongue beans, Bell peppers, Dragon carrots sharing a pot with three cucumber sproutlettes, Early girl tomato plants rocking the hell out of bucket sharing.

Up top: Heirloom lettuce mix.

5/26/10

deck garden.jpg

You should see my mug upon taking this shot, proud garden mama.

6/12/10

deck garden progress.jpg

6/17/10

trellis.jpg

my crazy trellis system

6/17/10

back deck lettuce.jpg

on the up and up.

5/28/10

deck lettuce.jpg

Something very right is going on in this container.

6/12/10

jalapeno!.jpg

My J brought me home a jalapeno plant from the farmers’ market; we just about have a salsa garden!

6/12/10

jalapeno plant.jpg

Peppers galore!

6/17/10

jalapeno.jpg

almost time for salsa!

6/17/10

jalapeno flower.jpg

The discard pile.

6/17/10

Dragon's tongue beans.jpg

Bean vine/bush about to take off!

5/6/10

bean shoot.jpg

This bucket is off to the races. Beans are a gardener’s salvation. 5/10/10

bush bean flower.jpg

it’s happening!

5/31/10

beans!.jpg

The first beans are here! What a flippin’ miracle plants are.

6/12/10

serious beans.jpg

They’re starting to show their dragon’s tongue coloring!

6/17/10

ant helper.jpg

Ants in the garden, I’m a fan. Eat up those aphids!

6/17/10

unpaid labor.jpg

5/10/10

tomatoes.jpg

the early girls are coming!

5/10/10

early girls.jpg

flowering!

5/28/10

'maters.jpg

Fruits of my labor!

6/12/10

german pink tomatoes.jpg

So, I guess this tomato plant is feeling alright after all. German pinks are just slow to start. She just climbed over the top of the cage in leafy uproar!

6/17/10

German tomato flower.jpg

the German girls are coming!

6/17/10

peppers budding.jpg

5/10/10

first bell peppers.jpg

6/17/10

cucumber sprouts.jpg

Planted in the carrot bucket

5/26/10

cuke sprouts.jpg

true leaves coming

5/28/10

cuke progress.jpg

5/31/10

deck bucket cukes.jpg

6/12/10

cukes' grasp.jpg

Cucumber vine latches on to my makeshift (twine) trellis.

6/17/10

glamour shots.jpg

5/26/10

charlotte.jpg

I have lots of helpers.

6/17/10

botany of desire.jpg

Nature is friggin brilliant: a seed with wings.

5/6/10

clothesline bloomage.jpg

Check out our neighbors’ ferns in the background, gorgeous.

5/6/10

First rose.jpg

I can’t stop photographing (and smelling) this rose.

5/5/10

rose buds.jpg

5/10/10

rose bush creeping.jpg

5/10/10

bramble and the rose.jpg

5/5/10

thorny limbs reach.jpg

I couldn’t have asked for a better accompaniment to my old window pane decor; a thorny limb is crawling down and blooming! 5/10/10