Wednesday, June 9, 2010

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The garden has been making some pretty major progress thanks to all that hot weather near the end of May and rain at the beginning of June. The garlic scapes are curling elegantly, the lettuce is filling out lushly, and the pea vines are huge and producing lots of delicious snap peas and snow peas. The shelling peas aren't quite plump enough for shelling yet, but the few I've tried are nearly as sweet as candy.

I tried a new technique for trellising my tomatoes this year. I made a bamboo structure with vertical strings to hold up the tomato vines. So far it is working great. It is so much easier to maintain than the stake and weave technique I tried last year, and I love how it looks. It reminds me of Japanese scaffolding or something. The tomato plants are crowded between the shelling peas now, but the peas will come out soon enough to give them more room.

10 comments:

  1. How beautiful, you have certainly worked hard in your garden!

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  2. The garden looks so beautiful! Thanks for having us over tonight! I'm going to try to find another tomatillo at the Dufferin Farmer's Market tomorrow! xo

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  3. your garden looks amazing!! mine is pitiful in comparison, but that's ok. i'm trying :-) but the groundhogs are winning.

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  4. Oh my goodness, Carly! Your garden is so lovely.

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  5. Your garden is so beautiful! We didn't approach our garden with any kind of a plan, so we'll get some vegetables, but nothing so beautiful as this in the meantime!

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  6. Thank you everyone! I have been neglecting it the last two weeks because I've been working so much, and it's getting out of control! Hopefully it will be back in a photogenic state soon, and I will post more pictures.

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  8. Wow! I have serious garden envy at the moment....!
    It's winter here in Melbourne and our brassicas and root veggies are growing well, but I'm already looking forward to the verdant abundance of Spring and Summer.
    Thank you for the inspiration - I love your tomato scaffolding :-)

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