Spring can't be far away when the catalogs for seeds and bulbs start arriving. It's still snowing and blowing on this early February day, so I thought it would be fun to reflect on the gardening year of 2020. Since we were not able to travel, or basically leave the house, I went all in with growing food and flowers. The pictures are roughly in order from early April until September.
We grew Russian Kale, arugula, two kinds of spinach, two kinds of eggplant, two kinds of tomatoes, two kinds of beans (green beans and scarlet runner beans), beets, okra, hot chili peppers, Genovese basil, cilantro, too many kinds of herbs to list, and tons of flowers. I filled in with annuals when the perennial flowers faded. Bees and butterflies abounded!! We could only visit with friends on the outdoor porches, so we had loads of container plants to make them into outdoor rooms.
My original goal had been to grow 50 pounds of produce. At almost 250 pounds I stopped counting. We had enough to give food away to friends, the food bank, and to put away for the winter. It was a lot of work but so surprising to see how much food you can grow in a small space garden! I should add that we worked together every day for at least 5 hours in the garden. This was also our fitness plan!
Starting seeds-
We built new raised beds for the tomatoes.
The salad greens were grown in pots off the ground.
The garden walk in early spring.
Truly the best roses I've ever had because it was a cold wet spring!
Flowers and Herbs and vegetable plants grow together in shared beds.
Romas and Big boy tomatoes-
Japanese eggplant-
Green beans and Herbs, later I replaced the beans with beets.
Great season for Hollyhocks, I had them everywhere!
The beginning of the tomato harvest. This was one day's worth.
Even in late summer the garden walk looked lovely. At the end the okra is now taller than the fence! Urns contain beet seedlings.
Peppers and prickly pear fruit-
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