Welcome to my veggie garden. Just planted snow peas and
transplanted lettuce. Looking forward to the fresh vegetables for my
meals. I tastes so much better home grown. Amazed I have been
gardening for so long, friends are asking my advise for
their gardens. Does not seem so long ago I dug and planted my first vegetable garden in the backyard of this house.
My love of this comes from my Grandma on my dad's side. Growing up I helped her in her gardens.
I have fond memories of her yard in the spring bursting with colors.
I helped pull the weeds from around the roses. While her children
were growing up, she grew fruits and veggies. She had plums,
raspberries and blackberries still when I was growing up. These were from when her kids were in school. I tried to transplant her raspberries a few times. My garden was
too wet when I tried. It was also very early in my gardening journey.
I know better now. I have them from a friend who had way too many
extra bushes in her garden.
Summer flowers
in Grandma's garden: roses, zinnias, geraniums, peonies, pansies, petunias, snapdragons and many others. She had a second garden at
the family cottage up north of Alexandria Bay, NY in the 1000 islands.
The flowers were in whiskey type barrels at the entrance to the front
porch. She was always happy to tell me the name of any flowers we saw.
My favorite up at the cottage was the wild snapdragons which were
everywhere along the privet road. Especially fun was rock collecting at
the top on the hill with my Dad and coming back down with snapdragons.Grandma always put them in a glass and on the kitchen table.
Toad in my garden
This little toad was hatched in my pond last year and apparently overwintered in my veggie garden. My digging in the dirt seemed to make him want to be somewhere else. More on the lovely vegetables I am growing latter in the year with photos of the plants.
