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Most Excellent Frog Pic

Frog In Grass

Just had to post this excellent picture of one of the frogs of the garden…

Cheers, David J.

Our Lemon and Grapefruit Trees

Meyer Lemon Tree

Last year we bought an Improved Meyer Lemon Tree and a Red Flame Grapefruit Tree from that orange big box store.  We planted them in large terracotta pots placed at the entrance to the vegetable gardens.

Both trees made fruit the first year we had them.  The lemons got fairly [read more...]

Eastern Bluebirds

Eastern Bluebird

My absolute favorite birds in the gardens right now are these Eastern Bluebirds.  They showed up mid-February and have hung out ever since.  We got a new hummingbird the other day for a couple days, dark plumage with what looked like a white/light ring around its neck, but we could not get a picture [read more...]

Weekend Update (More Like the Past 10 Days)

New 2x20 Raspberry Bed

Whew!  Have we been busy around the gardens this week or what?!  Over the past ten days or so we have built four new raised beds, put a new top and mesh curtains on the Paradise Pavilion (our gazebo), pulled out all the yard furniture from storage  (and I mean a lot of stuff [read more...]

A Summer in Bloom 2009 Gallery

Goblin Flower

Hoping our garden and your garden bloom twice as great as last year.

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Cheers, David J.

Sweet Potato Chips and Fries with Chile Salt and Lime

Sweet Potato Chips with Chile Salt and Lime

Past – When we were planting the raised vegetable beds, the Chief Taste-Tester Ian wanted sweet potatoes.  I said sweet potatoes would never grow in this arrangement, but we planted them anyway.  Boy was I wrong!

So, what do you do with a bunch of sweet potatoes?  Well, we baked some, of [read more...]

Celebration of a Peach Tree Gallery

Peach Blossom

Current – Bugs, three+ years of drought, and a year of flood made us think this tree was a goner at the end of last year.  But with some treatments and love…what a show.  Enjoy, I know we are most proud.

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Cheers, David [read more...]