Here you see a photo of some of the first fruits of our backyard-garden labor. We make it a point to plant edibles (almost) exclusively. Here is our first tomato, some hot peppers, blueberries, and rattlesnake green beans. The purple flowers are what the beans look like before maturing. Next, although not edible, is a yellow marigold. We surround our garden with marigolds as they seem to help keep the bugs out. In addition, we have okra, cucumbers, eggplant, basil, lavender, mint, lemon verbena, figs, and Swiss chard.
In Greensboro this summer, we first experienced excessive rain. In the last several days, the sun has been relentless. Therefore, gardening has been challenging. Presently, the blueberries are really prolific and the rattlesnake green beans are starting to produce enough beans to feed us. They are a very tasty pole bean. We like to take a picture every year around the Fourth of July to document our garden successes. Are you planting anything? How is it growing?
I have a terrace, quite large, but I have only succulents. They need not much care and grew very well. Right mix of sun and shadow, I think.
Posted by: VP | Thursday, July 08, 2010 at 08:08 AM
Very nice!
I planted some bush green beans which are doing okay; some red and yellow bell peppers, which are coming along nicely but not ripe yet; but the big surprise has been the enormous size and prolific tomato plants. That early rain sure made them happy and I'm keeping them that way with hand watering. Yum!
I love blue berries, yours look fantastic.
Posted by: Roch101 | Thursday, July 08, 2010 at 08:25 AM
I only planted flowers. Never had much luck with veggies. :(
I'm still waiting for some of my seeds to produce flowers. They were "mystery" seeds given to me by my MiL.
Posted by: Halcyon | Thursday, July 08, 2010 at 09:49 AM
Very colourful
Posted by: Mo | Thursday, July 08, 2010 at 04:48 PM
I don't have anything growing that good looking in my garden.
Posted by: barbara farr | Thursday, July 08, 2010 at 06:00 PM
Yum!
Posted by: Bill B | Friday, July 09, 2010 at 07:33 AM
These looks so real! The one in the stores sometimes are like plastic.
Great respect for your effort!
My mother-in-law when visiting in America used to wonder why people waste the land in their yard to grow grass. With the exception of a flower alley she grows veggies, berries, potato, cabbage, melons on every inch in her yard in BG.
She learned from agro-magazines. It is not an easy thing. How did you learn gardening?
Posted by: Ellie | Saturday, July 10, 2010 at 03:11 PM