Christmas Greens

Cactus says it is Christmas

 

 

Third picking of Choy

Pot of Tatsoi

Look at all that Vitamin A

 

Tatsoi

Tatsoi and Bok Choy Harvest

Year of the Pepper

 

Box of peppers

3 Buckets of peppers

First Bok Choy harvest

Harvest of The Green Tomato Relish

 

Tomato and Peppers and Okra too

 

Pears

 

Flowers

Cockscomb and Sunflowers

Sunflowers in the Fog

Hardy Begonia

Green Bean

Here comes the squash

Peaches

When the best time to plant a fruit tree, in the case of our farm 15 years ago.

Tree looks poorly, but made peaches for the first time.

June Garden

This is what a late garden looks like

Pond Flowers

 

Purple Beardtongue

Dreams come true when they are simple...like I wish yellow clover came up all around the pond.

Red Roses

The Ramblin' Rose

Ramblin' Rose Closeup

Ramblin' Rose Open

Red Climbing Rose Closeup

Red Climbing Rose

 

Rose Tea

Making tea from the Dutton Rose (Mary Hines), which we have identified as a 

Damask Rose with a very strong smell.  She makes a great tea!

 

Seedlings

There is a Buzzard Roost garden in the works.  Here are our seedlings in their pots and out in the sun.  The weather was too cold, and now their is a drought...so planting has been a challenge.  We planted beans in the ground last week, and got a half inch of rain on them.  Expecting   We had a couple of weeks of asparagus which has kept real well in the vegetable drawer, so we just ate on it all month instead of freezing.  We took two messes to two potlucks. 
 

Cut Flowers

 

 

Cut flowers includes lenten rose, iris, spurge, woodland phlox and hyacinth, along with some lilac.

 ...with the Iris blooming!

 

Spring Vegetable Planting Not

Plum in Bloom before the freeze again!

Peas are planted for spring, but that is it.  I let the Elmwood CSA do the work with their fancy spring tunnels, and enjoy the spring blooms at Buzzard Roost.

Christmas Rose started blooming in January

Lenten Rose

Hellebore

 

Jonquile

Narcissus

Buttercup

Daffodil

Forsythia is finally getting big.

Truth be told I have spent my stimulus this spring on new perennials, I am busy getting them in the ground and I confess I am a perennial hoarder.  The planting last week includes:   Bluebells, Woodland Phlox, False Indigo, Witch hazel, a wild digitalis Beard-tongue , Blue Sage, and a Poppy and a Pink for my rock garden...all from Missouri Wildflower Nursery.  I was going to put them all at the pond, but Mom thought they should be by the house so you can see them, so I made a new shade garden at the old chicken shed and put half of them there and the rest at the pond.  Coming from Bluestone Perennials in April is another attempt at Hollyhocks (deer eat them), and a new fancy Hellebore for David.  He also wanted some more roses, so we got a climber (Don Juan) for the front porch and a big wild bush (Graham Thomas) for the yard.  I have been buying roses from Antique Rose Emporium, and they have done very well.  And that is not all! I got this hardy fuchsia, Fuchsia Magellanica and a new red Peony from White Wildflower Farm.  Hopefully I will have many a flower to show off throughout the year. 

Garden 2021 begins with the ordering of the seeds

 I have been buying from this seed coop about 3 years https://www.southernexposure.com/about-us/

They were sold out already of many favorites, so then I will go to E&R Seeds in Monroe, IN.  They are not online, so you have to order by mail and send a check.  But they have our favorite hybrid tomato, Celebrity and green bean, Slenderette.  

Flowers come from Baker Creek because I love their catalogue.  I used to buy heirloom seeds for the garden but then switched to hybrids due to pest.  But I am glad heirloom are still around and want to support the seed house doing that work.  

Finally, I buy cover crops (winter pea) and wildflowers (cosmos) from American Meadows