We could grow carrots this big! These carrots are on a 2 x 6 railing to give you perspective on the size. The taste, well a lot better than store bought. You know those pre washed baby carrots that everyone buys these days, no taste at all when compared to freshly grown organic carrots. If you can't grown them, try buying some at your local farmers market, worth every penny trust me.
Our trick on these? We, OK Meg planted them in late fall and they were in the cold frame. We mixed lots of compost in the soil every year for the the past several years. We also have spring planted carrots that are tiny right now, but growing every week. Just ate one of these so hard to resist.
Here is the labyrinth bed of potatoes planted a few weeks ago. It starts on the lower left with a basil plant then potatoes go almost to the center. The after the potatoes pea greens in the center.
Our larger garlic bed. You can see our onions on the left of the garlic, they are huge. The lettuce in the front is almost past prime at this point. The pepper plants on the lower left were grown from seed.
Meg you need to pick these Sugar Snap Peas! This is half on one of our three trellises of peas.
Our latest blooming clematis, forgot the name of this one. Last year we had more blooms...
Meg finally got some Comfrey. As you can see it is doing great in our garden. More on
comfrey.
Black Cohosh,
Actaea racemosa Meg brought this home from an Women's Herbal Conference last year.
Doing very well.
Self sown larkspur in the cold frame.
In the past few years I have been taken in by spiderworts. I think this is the one I got from SweetBay. Just love it!
Oh so beautiful.
This one is the largest flowering one I have. It has been here for 10 years or so, my one plant in now 4 plants, not a fast spreader by any means.
This spiderwort is pale blue, the camera lost the blue in the petals. Saw an alba "white" spiderwort yesterday on a blog...
More on the 13 year cicadas, I found one casing on the deck earlier in the week and a confirmed one dead in a pan of water here in the yard this morning. We must be slightly out of the main brood. . I read a report of hundreds of thousands of them being seen and heard at Jordan Lake an hour from here.
