More Carrots!

Well, this is all more of those wonderful carrots from out garden. I pulled them all, we have eaten them for weeks now, raw and I placed several bags of them in the freezer. They will be super for those times I need them quickly, cause they are clean, chopped and ready to use.
The carrots are several different colors. It is hard to see, but they range from "regular" orange, to yellow to almost white and all the inbetweens too.

Now that these carrots have been pulled and put up, I have already planted a second crop to grow that that I can over winter them right in the ground, with some hay on the top. We should have fresh yummy carrots all

Baby Carrots from the Garden

This is a handful of baby carrots from our garden! They smell so wonderful and sweet. I have quite a few planted, but I wanted to just peek and see how they were doing. So far so good.

Our wild flowers

We planted a small section of our "lawn" with wild flower seeds and this is some of the results...they are really just starting, but they are beautiful.
Every shade, color and size.
This is one of my favorites...just perfect.
Can't wait to see the end results.

Growing Comfrey...beautiful and useful

This is a huge bumble bee out on some of our comfrey plants. They are so amazing to watch that I had to snap this pic of them at work. They were going from one plant to the next just pollinating all the way.
Here is a close up of the blooms on the comfrey that are just starting out. They bloom the most beautiful spikes that have purple flowers on them. Just about everything loves them, from humming birds, to bumble bees, to the honey bee.



We have about 45 plants of comfrey planted and we use it to feed our rabbits, chickens and ducks. It seems to do double duty when it is so beautiful and useful, not only to us, but to wild life too.



We also sell our comfrey roots each spring and this year, we sold about 10 batches and got them all off in the mail without a hitch. If anyone is interested in comfrey, let us know.

The garden is growing!

I love to grow different herbs to dry and use fresh here at home. This is a picture of some of my oregano. It is huge and looks like a little bush. It is a perennial and comes back each year. This one is about 3 years old now. I usually cut it back, and dry it on a dehydrator, then package it in food saver bags with the air removed. It is lovely.
The garden would not be the same without some wonderful sunflowers. My dd planted them this year and there are tons of them all over the place just getting started. We love to see them and let the birds enjoy them and it just wouldn't be garden season without them coming up in our garden.
I have a soft spot in my heart and stomach for potatoes. I love them, baked, fried, mashed, in salads, as a main dish, or side dish...just gotta have them. I decided to plant more this year than I have ever planted before. With all the rains this year (record amounts even) I thought I would lose a lot of them, but they are coming on strong since the sun has been out for a few days in a row. They look great and some have even started to bloom !!! Can't wait to have some new potatoes cooking, yum!
Well, we have some peas out too and this is little pic of some of the pretty blooms on some of them. I planted 2 different types and most of the blooms are white, but not this little batch...they are the most beautiful different shades of purple. We haven't had any peas as of yet, but we are hoping soon.

Birds and Berries

This is a pic of some of the Orioles at one of our feeders. We have 3 of these feeders out and there are so many orioles that we have to fill them every 2 to 3 days. They are so beautiful.
These are a few pics of our gooseberries that are growing. The rain doesn't seem to be doing any harm to them cause they are full of berries and they are looking good.

We have just one gooseberry bush, but it has spread very well over the past couple of years and we are going to get at least a gallon or more berries from this one large bush.

Back in the Garden Again!!

We have been working on the garden again...between the rains and the freezing weather that is.

This is a pic of one of my raised beds that have green peas planted in it. We made some "natural" and "recycled" trellises for them out of some old branches that we trimmed off of some trees. The vertical ones have y tips and the horizontal ones lay in the y's. We just pushed them down into the ground one at a time and it worked out well for us.



This is my hard working husband, who is tilling more of our garden up. We planted peppers in this area today.