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[wildedibles]

I have taken pictures the oldest boy has uploaded them to the computer so all I have to do is load them into here :) hoping today...anyway

It has been warm and dry I barley have rain water left to water with :( hoping it rains soon but the forcast is not promicing any yet...

I fed everything with a coffee fertilizer ....stale coffee and mollassas a bit of cabbage to get a ferment going

ok whats in wilds garden this year? Tomatoes and fancy tomatoes :)
zuchinni and cucumbers which I will mix with cabbage to make a fermented veggie with some dill I have growing too :)
a spicy lettuce mix WOW! some are hot my Aunt said theres arugula in there does it have a purple stem? I have one that looks like radish tops too its hot as well
potatoes i wasnt gonna but I had a half a bag of sprouted ones so dig a hole ;)
strawberrys and :) finally have crab apples on the tree :)
oh ya my fav PEAS! snow peas and Alaska peas they are alreaady a foot tall holding on to the grass cuz I hvent tied them up or puled out the grass yet so its woking till I string them up today hoping
carrots .....I planted 3 new herbs and thoes mini roses in the waterfall rock garden ....ah... sage and lavender and a white lavender?? never seen it in white

I have a property that is a 1/4 of an acre all front and side yard no back yard so I have hedges didnt take me long to do them :) numbered one would be proud He gave me mulch idea with the young trees and shrubs Thanks buddy

My plans are edible or medicinal or usable and eventually I will get rid of the grass and have a trail threw the garden ....I started with a blank slate kinda lucky with all flat land but it had nothing on the side with the spacy yard didnt take me long to have flowers planted from the neighbour ...talk over the fence close neighbours but they :) were xtra grandparents for the kids thier grandkids were out west so they didnt see them so my kids got spoiled lol and so did I with all the spreading flowers from her garden went into mine

Sorry I was blessed with a lilac bush purple my fave well its so old it takes up the far corner of my yard beautiful in full bloom now that the younger spreading bushes are big enough to have full bloom of flowers this year :) Lots of people cut them back in thier yards to have more room ...well thats a shame cuz they are pretty and the bush does hide alot nice and thick ....

....anyway back to gardening :) I have young men to help me dig this year or id be container gardening but it is better in the ground if you can weed it
....the boys are helping me water too :) I couldnt do it without them thanks boys :)

[onediadem]

Wow Wild, that sounds awesome and I am glad you have help.. That is going to be lot's of work. Waiting for pics! How is it going without the gluten? Are you better or still having problems?

[wildedibles]

We got rain :) some thunder storms today lots of water for today just have to move it around a little....

...gluten yes I still void ...milk is harder to avoid ....I still have pain and inflamation but managing it better emotions have lots to do with chronic pain ;)

How are you feeling sweetie :)

[onediadem]

I am doing as good as I can with everything going on. Sigh.. No garden this year. Yet.

[wildedibles]

Need a few young men to dig for you? :) You can borrow them I am sure they ould like the trip south :) lol

[onediadem]

HAH! If you have found young men who are willing to do it you had better hold onto them. I can't get my nephews to help even with a fistful of money dangling in front of them.They would rather play on their games.

[wildedibles]

HAH! If you have found young men who are willing to do it you had better hold onto them. I can't get my nephews to help even with a fistful of money dangling in front of them.They would rather play on their games.

Not my boys :) the one needs voulenteer ours to graduate high school this is a friend of my kids so my kid helps him and he helps back .... my kid helps at his house too so we are teaching some good skills and manners ;)

[wildedibles]

I have a purple color going this year pansies are cool :)

 

Wild Dagga started for my Aunt she has won 2-3 years now entering the flower arrangement into the fall fair ... no one has seen this flower here in Ontario even in the citys except for the special friends of mine ;) Thanks Mycotopia / worldseedsupply

 

purple :) Dolphin violet and a one I cant remember and I left the tag somewhere ??

and nasturshum spelling?? anyway the bright red yellow or orange of the nasturshium with the purple later will be popping eye candy for the front enterance of my house at driveway area......

[wildedibles]

Now a tour threw the garden.... eventualy there will be a trail threw the yard and gardens no grass

 

New part to the waterfall garden ...the boys dug it for me :) thanks boys :)

 

 I planted herbs a sage and lavender and roses and marigold and..... oh thoese dried flowers they r nice ..... and a purple Iris I got from my kids for my bday :) all dark purple :) I think MrsH had one like this I loved :) XOXO

 

Lupins ans sedum and hens and chickens succlents grow well in this rock waterfall garden iris are at the back in the tall grass ...theepond is small but holds lots of rain water that comes from my rain barrel threw the hose gravity fed... down the water fall collecting more O2 this way ;) and sounds nice :)  a trickel falls

 

I had

I had a sand pile here from sinking in rain buckets next to this garden and well it killed the grass time to dig a garden boys I love ya for heping me I couldnt do it without ya.... tomatoes and dill and carrots

 

sunken rain buckets inbetween the gardens they r covered with a grate to keep us outa it no falling in lol get wet leg

 

peas and grass gotta string and weed still......

sunchokes are in this garden too peas are a foot or e other growth they dont look bad so I was waiting getting other pressing stuff done like moving my manuer machines aka rabbits :) lol

 

 

purple lupin

more to come.....

[wildedibles]

I had these mats down to kill the grass :) makes digging easier when the sod is gone ;)

So i have them here to kill ,ore grass for next year bigger garden :)

cucumbers carrots lettuce.....??

 

cucumbers and zucchini

 

This was the baby birds....

 

nice big pic of lilacs :)

 

and my friend calls this his swamp grass with flowers :) he found it fishing lol :) beautiful wild white and yellow iris :)

[wildedibles]

I was updating with pictures but my computer craped out after updating Im assuming cuz keep hiting the ignore update button cuz I have been working when it wants to update grrrr... anyway I will try again later cuz the computer is saying the site is down ...well I can do it on my talet??

[wildedibles]

Here's a start to the swamp grass that flowers collection :)

 

Blue flag

 

 

 

and I need to get a root off my friend :)

 

here are some garden Iris this pale yellow one is from my grandma my first to start the collection

 

these beetles are eating many of my flowers ...they are my white single rose bush last summer and its dead now ...but there is sucker growth so I may get a nice bush again

 

 

I have a white one too but missed it flowering it was the first to flower...my mom needs a root of the white one I need to mark it cuz its growing with these ones this purple is an old color one of my moms first iris to collect

 

I don't know if in the long run they can put up with this grass or not the wild ones look to thrive in it actually stopping the grass from growing .  The garden variety the grass grows over them making a mess to get the root out or uncovered like they are soposed to be??

 

 

 

this was the rose bush the beetles killed

 

 

:) I love the purple and the yellow together ....yellow day lilies and the wild blue iris

 

I got a new one this year just pure dark purple beautiful I didnt get a picture of it tho ? cant remember it was blooming with the white one early :) that would look nice too white and dark purple ....it dosnt work if they bloom at diff times ;)

Edited by wildedibles, 26 June 2018 - 12:15 PM.

[wildedibles]

Jack in the pulpit from my aunt's house .... I get to dig some of these up they are plentiful here I need to find a shady spot for it

 

 

 

 

 

 

[wildedibles]

Here is some new garden pictures :)

 

my rock garden water falls :)

 

my new tomatoes I got them cheap all for 5 bucks but I almost killed them setting them out in the full sun oops they were not ready to handle that heat

they are getting nice and green now :)

 

older tomato garden I have some big tomatoes and the plum tomatoes are flowering nicely :)

 

my zucchini are drying out too much in this garden and cucumbers are just a little better off but the potatoes are almost done :)

 

 

 

these zucchini are doing good wilty in the day but they get better when its cooler

 

 

 

nice big cukes here :)

 

poppies and lettuce

 

 

 

 

accidental squish planting :) good surprize

 

my milkweed beside me steps

 

I love the color and the bouncy in the wind with this planter It really needed the rubber boots :)

[Sidestreet]

I like the nasturtiums!  Do you ever eat the flowers?

[wildedibles]

I like the nasturtiums!  Do you ever eat the flowers?

Ive eaten the leaves but yes the flowers would make great salad color :)

I need to take anothe r picture of that the yellow flowers are full bloom with the orange :) with the purple nd blue flowers they look really great :) ....my son wanted a plant for his room so this winter he can babysit the african violet (dolphin violet)

the tomatoes I almost killed in this heat ( leaving them unplanted for too loong without water)
anyway they are doing better then the other ones I planted long ago except for the bigger tomato I payed more money for thoes big tappy tomatoes are almost starting to ripen :)
anyway there is finally tomatoes :)
all the feeding (coffee and coffee grounds and a fermented comfrey and wee fertilizer) and watering I did is gonna pay off
the kale I got for cheap I think had worms on it cuz I seen worms on my igger kale and they were not there til I planted the others beside it ....I had big leaves big enought o wrap meat in and well they went all to the rabbits (can rabbits eat worms??)

I also had some weird worms / catterpillers that looked almost exactly like monarch catterpillers but they were eating my dill so they r not monarch and the mouths were a bit different they were hard to see on the dill It was growing very well I picked them all off so heres hopingit keeps growing well :)

one of my helper boys crushed up my clay for my cacti dirt so just need to mix the rest of the stuff in and I will be replanting cacti :)

[wildedibles]

Zucchini ...these plants are huge now need to take pictures of the garden again ....we got a bit of rain and the rabbit poo and comfrey fermented fert working wonders ..... I have been making zucchini muffins and bread and giving some away and freezing some .....I wanna make a salad of zucchini and cucumbers a little dressing with dill :)

 

lots of zucchini oh ya we used it with cabbage and cucumber in the sour crout but havent tried it yet

[onediadem]

Wow, the only thing I have growing this year is banana squash. Considering they get 4 feet long I have my work cut out for me when it is time to harvest them, if I can get them to actually produce. Lots of flowers.. Your gonna have to post more pics of your hauls!

[wildedibles]

ya a date with the garden later .......

[wildedibles]

Here is alot of garden pictures.......

 

Hi baby shadow head

 

 

The squash plants are huge this year

 

 

 

cucumbers...dagga...lettuce...brocolli...kale...and baby shadow head

 

 

The striped  ones are nice to look at but the plants are smaller