May Garden Report

Why yes, I DID pretty much spend March and April garden time without a camera.

 But there was much kale, and much seed starting(ALL THE SEEDS!), and more hours of digging out new beds from grass than I care to count.  But we have a new veggie raised bed, a butterfly garden, and we got to surround the trees in the church yard with little beds too.  The photo at right (from early in May) may not look like much, but things have been happening!! The peach trees have both leafed out- no buds though- and it's been so fun to watch all these little things get comparatively HUGE!

We're experiencing the beauty of my grandmother's garden in queen Anne's lace from the same stock as her wedding bouquet, fennel to feed caterpillars, and in coreopsis that the church kids love to pick.  Sunflowers and zinnia seeds have poked their heads up,  and they are going to be beauties come July and August.

We'll continue to enjoy the chard and spinach starts as they grow into the new salad bed I have hiding out in the closest thing I could call shade... And yes, that is another pallet hack, which I will have to actually take a picture of soon.

But May is past, and my oh my, was it delicious. Along with our greens and the first of the carrots that started as seeds, we have gotten to experience the bounty of other gardens.

 The people we are blessed to serve in our little Southern town are generous with the fruits of their gardens, y'all.  We knew that last year when, within a couple of weeks, we had a little it of everything in season, but we are seeing it again with the new goodies of the Spring, and then there's the fact that I haven't had to buy eggs from the store more than 3 or 4 times in 6 months even though we eat a dozen or so a week.  So far this Spring we have enjoyed Vidalia onions, new potatoes, corn and all the yellow squash we can eat.

Did I mention strawberries? It seems the squirrels got most of ours, but Copeland Farms came to the rescue.   As May gives way to June, we have the bounty of green beans coming in, and I'm thinking our zucchini will make its appearance soon.


And a lovely surprise... Our Early Girl Tomatoes came in May's final days with our first taste of summer heat.
However, something else got to enjoy the first tomato before we had a chance.  I wasn't happy, but you know, birds(that's our guess) have to eat, too.  We've had plenty of tomatoes even without the couple bites they stole.
 Summer is stretching out before us in crazy calendars, family vacations, even more tomatoes to come, and what I hope will be a season of enjoying the slowed-down pace and the lullaby of frogs and crickets as we sit out with citronella candles and eat fresh, lovely, local foods from the garden and our grill.

More soon, but if not, you know where to find me.  Playing in the dirt.


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