Hooray for summer!
Even though it doesn’t get all that warm or sunny here in Seattle until July at least (wah!) it is feeling and looking a lot more summery and we’ve been spending lots of time in the garden. The above flowers are from a vine on our fence planted last year…
Mad props to Lonnie who keeps the main raised garden beds in order and all the fruits and veggies appropriately watered. He’s been spending tons of time on it this year, and it’s looking great!
The upside of living in a such a temperate climate zone is that the mild winters allow for some sturdy greens to winter over. We’ve had kale and chard for much of the fall, winter and spring! This kale was planted last summer and still tastes great.
I love having our veggie garden in the front — it looks awesome to folks walking up to the house and it’s totally true that you see your neighbors SO much more if you spend time in the front yard instead of the back.
I love these new honeyberries we planted this year. They are a super early berry crop (May or early June around here) that is native to Eastern Siberia and thrives in PART SHADE. How great is that? It’s like a huckleberry or a slightly tart blueberry that’s bigger and oblong. If you get some, make sure to buy TWO so that they can pollinate each other.
When in the front yard, the girls sometimes eat lunch on a blanket or at their picnic table, and spend a lot of time on bikes in the driveway or playing on or near the front sidewalk & steps. Also digging around in their mud garden, and helping us dig around or water wherever we are working. Mostly though, the bikes are taking center stage right now!
Bring it on, summer, bring it on. Here’s to days of gardening and play, delicious and healthy home-picked good eats, lots of bike and dirt play and (if we are lucky) shorts, T-shirts, flip flops and sunscreen. Ha!
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Your garden!!!
I can’t get over how beautiful it is!
Thank you! It’s taken a fair bit of work but we enjoy it. And after a few years things are finally starting to feel settled & get established!
Wow, that’s idyllic! It looks like an enchanted garden, only with cute kids instead of gnomes! (And I love the helmet with tutu and boots outfit – looks like something my daughter would wear, too!)