David Austin Rose Munstead Wood
My daughter came out with the camera and snuck in a few pics of me watering the garden. This is one of my favorite Summertime rituals. Actually as I sit in the January rain and dark... I can hardly wait for the need to water again! The lovely mornings or evenings doing nothing but watering the vegetable garden with the light playing over the water and plants. We have so much rain here most of the year that there is rarely a need to take the hose anywhere to water. Water-logged is normal state for the plants around here!
David Austin Climbing Rose "Shropshire Lad"
David Ausin Roses have become my latest addiction in the garden. Once you begin by getting their catalog, you fall in love and must have new varieties to add, I escpecially love the climbing roses.
This is what I talk of around Mother's Day. The one above Kaley got me for Mother's Day this past year.
I have one concrete raised bed, with the eventual plan of continueing to add them one by one. However, at the moment I'm happy with just my mounded raised beds. A greenhouse is what we need, that one element so important to grow food year-round in our climate. Last year my tomatoes that I started extra early, thrived all Summer long, then they got blight just as the huge crop of Roma Tomatoes were about ready to turn red and ripen. I had been looking forward to canning them all Summer, then they were destroyed by blight in an instant. It made me realize how important a green house is for our self sufficiency plan. To be able to garden year round is important to me, and to be able to grow tomatoes and peppers that need heat! Now, cherry tomatoes I can grow, this year I will focus on both red and yellow cherry tomatoes.
Dahlias, Plums, and Roses from the garden
During the hot and dry time of the year I water frequently.
2 comments:
Wow, beautiful!
Thank you Melissa for your nice comment.
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