"The Farm"

This is actually my vegetable/fruit garden, but since I have some potted tomatoes planted by the trailer, I call the big garden "the farm".

We have squash of all varieties, a watermelon, a cantaloupe, many cantaloupe seedlings, which aren't doing too well. We also have 2 pepper plants - a banana and a red, an orient cucumber (which has a curled good size cuc on it now), Four string beans. We have three tomatoes, and many cosmos (flowers), and lettuce volunteered from last year.

We are grateful to Jim and Josey for all the work they did on this garden last year to make it such a wonderful place to grow stuff. The soil in heavenly and Jim hauled every rock from the river to build these beautiful terraced gardens. I'll show you a better picture of that next time.

We have corn planted in this circular area as it gets the most sun. Put seeds in June 18. Am watering and fertilizing, hoping for "knee high by the 4th of July". D'ya think they'll make it?


I am not there to protect my plants at all time, so Lilly Lu is on point to fend off the birds. But having an ancestral attachment to Alfred Hitchcock, they are impervious to her flailing arms.


.... also, I don't think she looks menacing enough... too smiley....




Finches love sunflower leaves. I sprayed soap suds and then sprinkled them with cayenne pepper (the leaves that is) and this is how effective that turned out to be. Next time the birds will get the treatment.








These are acorn squash plants given to me by my neighbor Shirley Haynes. They are the healthiest and fastest growing plants on the farm.
Patio tomatoes, Quick Pick. This is an early variety... they are just starting to look a little translucent. It might be awhile before we'll be adding these babies to our salads.



Flowers:

Geraniums and petunias.





Pansies and a mystery plant in the middle. I sprinkled seeds which my friend Connie gave me years ago. Not sure what they will become.



Petunias and Lavender.









Variety. A rooster comb and a pumpkin plant, which is something new my Gardner Barbara passed on to me. We'll see what it does. Another mystery flower coming later in the summer.

The alysum and lobelia are loved by something cause they are dying and disappearing... maybe good nesting material.


As much as the captain is itching for salt air, I am really enjoying being land locked this year. ...love having a chance to have a garden. We have been buying produce in Canada and Alaska the past few summers, so this is really going to be a treat! And we have already been blessed by the neighbors with green onions which measure 36" from root tip to green top tip. That really gives me hopeful anticipation for a Klamath River harvest.


luv/jo

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