The Great Outdoors
Beautiful basket of flowers at St. Jacobs Country Gardens
Last Saturday I went to the garden centre to promote, sign and sell my book, Harry’s Trees, and then on Monday, I visited another garden centre closer to home (one that also helped me promote my book) to get plants for my own home, both veggies and flowers.
There were plenty of flowers left and I found that the food plants (tomato, cucumber, etc) were in limited supply. I managed to get tomato plants and a couple of cucumber and zucchini plants that were outgrowing their starting pots. No worries though, the plants will soon be in my garden, with the help of three granddaughters.
Garden stone, made at retreat one year. Back in my flower bed
Raised garden beds ready for planting
Window box from BAK to Basics, planted
Veggies and herbs
My parsley needs to be replanted this year. Two of my granddaughters love the taste of parsley. The first time they saw it, they asked, “What is this?”
“Parsley, ” I answered. Seeing their puzzled faces, I said their mom might put it in a salad.
“Can we taste it?” they asked.
I showed them that they could pinch off a small leaf and eat it. And so they did. Every summer they look for the parsley and ask if they can have some. They love the flavour.
Tomato plants, the non negotiable plant in my garden each year
My husband rescued the overgrown yellow beans from the garden last summer and saved the seeds. He planted them in a shallow plant of soil. We have to get those planted because they’re growing.
Today I’ll go and purchase a small shovel for the youngest member of our planting team. New to it this year, the three-year-old must have her own. It seems she wanted some gloves too. She must have seen someone else wearing garden gloves. Perhaps her other grandmother wears them.
And a planter with spikes and other flowers
I like to purchase the flowers and plant them in my own pots so there’s room for them to fill out. And one other thing to do this evening is to soak the morning glory seeds I’ll plant tomorrow so the shell breaks open and they start germinating sooner.
A small one in my life loves being out of doors, looks at the trees with great interest, even follows a bird across the lawn, now that he’s walking well.
Hoping to get some good pictures of planting tomorrow then I’ll post some.
Happy planting. Enjoy the beauty around you!