Showing posts with label garden. Show all posts
Showing posts with label garden. Show all posts

Friday, July 8, 2011

Up Early

Cohen and I had an early start on the day this morning.   We came up-stairs to find Aunt Margaret and discovered she was already out in the yard.   As we passed my room Cohen saw Foo Kitty and had to pet him. 

Once outside we found Margaret picking blue berries.  Charlotte, the little brown dog in the picture below,  LOVES  blue berries and will sneak them out of their container as they are picked. She'll eat them until she is sick if she can.  To appease Charlotte, Margaret will give her a berry every once in a while.
 

Cohen likes the blue berries too, but not like Charlotte does!
Cohen touches a black berry before he gives it the taste test.  He eats one but declines the offer of another.

Here Cohen plays in the tunnel made by the rows of corn.  The corn rows are very dense as the corn was planted too close together.  Margaret wasn't sure how a vegatable garden would do as she has only had her herb and flower gardens here.  She says next year she will have a bigger garden and plant using fewer seeds/plants per hole and place the rows further apart.
  What a suprise it has been  to see how well the garden has done and how very much it is producing.  The soil is  giving us wonderfully sweet vegtables in abundance.       
                                              

I am especially glad to have these pictures as Cohen usually turns away whenever you want to take his picture.  He is not the camera loving model Sophia is.



 Isn't this picture a riot ?   Cohen would hold his shorts up when he walked through any weeds tall enough to touch his legs .

Cohen checks out this mornings blue berry harvest.  I'd say that's pretty good for three little shrubs that were 'picked clean '  yesterday and the day before.  
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Friday, July 1, 2011

A Few More Pictures....

I've posted larger pictures so you can see more detail.
Another Hummingbird Moth pays a visit.  Notice how the camera caught the wing's pattern on the opposite side his body. (Picture below.)
  





A little twine and the corn stalks are set upright once again.   The storm damage is repaired!
                             Five, 5 gal buckets of green beans have been picked.

Friday, February 25, 2011

Sophia and her gardening buddy....

Sophia plants seeds in the beds Murphy has dug in her garden. 
It didn't take long for all of the beautiful red seeds to be plucked from their bag and dropped into their bed of powdery red Carolina  Clay.

 Now all to do is wait.

                                          Sophia walks back to the stoop to sit with me and watch her plants grow.  As if by magic the seeds spring from the earth and reach into the heavens.  Sophia is very pleased.  We clap our hands and I praise her master gardener skills. 

Saturday, November 6, 2010

The Pleasure of Family

Vincent and Toni took me to visit Reynolda Gardens here in Winston Salem today.  I have never been though it is only a few miles from home.  I had a wonderful time and am anxious to go again.  I haven't relaxed and enjoyed an outing like that in forever...really. 

Before we entered the gardens Sophia spotted a one eared cat to befriend.  This, of course, overshadowed all other sights and sounds of family and garden.  How sweet and gentle she was with the "kitty".  I don't think she even noticed the cat's missing appendage.




 I was surprised to see the number of plants still in bloom.  We have been having nights in the low 30's and have had some frost.  I thought all the blooms would be long gone...especially the roses.  But, as you can see, I was wrong.  Imagine THAT!