Happy Birthday

June 30th is Nancy's birthday.  She has been very busy working on cleaning up the pool area, cutting back lots of perennials, weeding and getting some poison ivy along the way.

The garden continue to grow, at times looking like it is doubling in size overnight.  I have been able to keep up with the weeding for the most part, thanks to my trusty weeding tool.  Here are some more photos of the progress we are making.

Our Dogwood in full bloom.

A view of the garden from Jack's Swing

Broccoli heads outdoors

Tomatoes climbing up the cow panels

Baby watermelon plants (4 of them) climbing up the wine rack.

Corn plantings, husks are coming in.

Yellow squash plants. We have already eaten a few.

Peas coming to the end of their cycle.

Bloody Butcher tomato plants growing very nicely.  Drip irrigation is used twice a week.

Cucumbers ripe for the picking.

Peas still coming in.

More tomatoes behind the greenhouse. These are Sweet 100's and Rutgers

Four rows of potatoes.  Yukon Gold, Pontiac Red and German Butterball

The second group of corn.

The second group of tomatoes growing on cow panels. They also already have tomatoes on the vine.

Onions, grown from plantings, bulbs and seed.

Closeup of Bloody Butcher a very tasty competitor to the Early Girl variety.

Some kale and potato grown from peelings put into the greenhouse soil as compost.

This is what grew from the potato peelings.  Pretty amazing.

Spending lots of time trying to get the pool to be clear instead of green.

Nancy's roses

Hostas in the pool area.  Still more weeding to do.  I hope to get to that with my weeding tool soon.

Nancy's perennial garden in the pool area.  Lots of work getting it back under control.