Project: Square or Linear?

If you wonder what I have been up to lately - here is the my newest project: nothing more than the re-arrangement of my vegetable garden. 

We had some grey and cool days last week and they seemed perfect for heavy garden work. This is a view of my veggie garden taken in early July 2013.

Now the fence was been taken down and the wooden poles came out. 

While my dear hubby was busy making two new frames, I pondered if my square-formed garden was the thing to continue with. 

I moved the new frames around and looked at it from different angles.

Finally the decision was to arrange the new frames in one line with the old ones. 

If seen from the house, the street and from upstairs, it looks way nicer that way than having the garden plot "slap dap" sitting in the middle of the lawn.

The following photos show what I have in my mind. 

Right: the lay of the square garden, left: the lay with the future linear garden. Viewed from upstairs and from the road. 

No blockage, just open lines and views. That's my thought anyway. 

J.P. wondered who would ever look out of the window upstairs? 

Well, I do for example! 

To me it always looked odd and now I had the chance to do something about it and the new arrangement will look way more balanced. 

There.

Next came several days with pushing the wheel barrel to and fro between a heap of soil and the new frames until both were filled up.

No, this is not an alien, it is I, in my garden attire. :))

A peek into my tomato patch. There are still many green tomatoes coming up the next couple of weeks. The potato harvest was good. Enough for two month or until we go south again. Spring was too cold and the corn got a late start.
Well, worst case they will make a nice decoration for Thanksgiving Day.

I like to mix flowers and vegetables. As the harvesting goes on and the spaces open up there are still pretty flowers to look at until the frost takes them down.

If I am not here - I am in the garden!
Thanks for visiting!

Canine Body Language

While preparing dinner today there was a low whimpering nearby.

Turning my head I observed our dog Molly laying on the floor. 

-Dogs are laying on the floor all the time.-

Thinking nothing of it I turned back to my duties. 

Some minutes later, another whining. This time it was LOUDER! 

Finally, it hit me, Molly was trying to tell me something VERY IMPORTANT. 

Look at her body language....

In a perfect angle towards the empty food dish. 

"HEY - mom! Will you take a look. It is EMPTY!"

Obediently I went and filled the dish with her dog food. 

Molly went and checked it out.

"Naaah - that's not good enough, mom!"

I topped it up with some cooked potatoes and carrots.

Another check was made.  

"OK. That's fine, thanks." 

Happy dog.

Afterwards: Nap time. ZZZZZ

The End

Pearly morning

September. 

After a night with heavy rain and later with dense fog I discovered an artfully done spider's net in my lilac bushes.

I am always in awe when I see how beautiful nature can be.
One doesn't have to go far to find beauty.

Got potatoes?

I could not wait any longer, I had to check upon my potatoes.
And YESSSS!
There were potatoes in the ground!
One plant yielded a bit more than a pound (600 g), not too bad for this hobby gardener.
Also, there was the second batch of green beans to harvest, ca 200 g, and of course lots of lettuce.

Goodies out of my garden!

Our dinner tonight was complete with some pork sirloin.

That means the dental "convalescent" is able to eat normal food again. :))

When I checked my flowers today I found one that I hadn't seen before. After doing some research it came up as Red Flax, linum grandflorum rubrum. Must have come of the $1 Wildflower package. I am surprised that anything came out of that at all, because the content looked more like sawdust than seeds to me. Well, well.

Last year I started out a vegetable garden with two raised beds. It was for fun.

My first garden, two raise beds in June 2012...

This year I have four and two potato towers. Still a size for me that it is more fun than work. And since we don't have a freezer we have to be able to eat it all as soon as it ripens.

... has doubled in size, taken July 17, 2013

 Since we had such a cold spring the corn started late, and I doubt if it will succeed this year, but we will see.

This bed has potatoes, corn, green beans, lettuce and cosmos flowers.

Tomatoes, basil, carrots, lettuce and marigolds

Peas, iceberg lettuce, a row of collard greens, 6 green cabbages, 4 broccoli and numerous radishes were already harvested.
In the herb department: Parsley, Summer Savoy, Cilantro, Lemon Balm, Chives.
Dill didn't work out this year. :(( Wrong spot, I guess.
Always something to do.
There is already another project on my mind....