A honeybee busily works a Purple Coneflower bloom in the front yard.
Busily.
Tag: gardening
Await.
Our started vegetable plants await planting. Low temperatures during several upcoming nights come uncomfortably close to freezing so we are holding off. For now, we bring them out during the day to harden them off.
The rosemary (upper centre) will stay in its pot as will the lemongrass (upper right).
A little hard to see.
It is a little hard to see the seven asparagus spears in our small ‘spare grass’ patch. We have already enjoyed several fresh spears. The strawberries are starting to flower (though you cannot see the flowers in this image). The haskap bush in the background has flowered and should set fruit soon.
Bounty.
Twenty minutes’ time yielded this bounty from the Chocolate Cherry Tomato patch.
Cheery.
The sunflower adds a very cheery note to our vegetable garden.
In bloom.
Many of the plants in our garden are in bloom now. Here, the spirea.
Almost
This strawberry was almost ready to pick.
Changed; prolific
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Based on what I see I believe our redcurrant bush will be very prolific this year.
What a treat!
Dinner: Fresh greens from our garden accompany a piece of savoury bread pudding. What a treat to have on December 10!
One of the many.
One of the many sunflowers on our property.
We feed the birds, which means that they and the squirrels deposit sunflower seeds throughout the yard. The seeds sprout. Sunflowers grow. Seed eating birds glean the flower heads. The seeds they miss fall to the ground. The cycle renews, year after year.
