Spring Garden 2013

I'm so thrilled with how our garden is growing.  It's been so much fun watching it mature, and seeing how much the kids enjoy it.

Here is one side of the garden. 

 

Here is the other side of the garden

Shira and Samuel love the swing, as do most kids who show up at our house.

I've been working on planting the front walk with flowers.  I still have a few holes to fill in, but we're getting there.

I love being able to say, "Ours is the house with the enormous artichokes in front."

I didn't think it was possible, but we actually have more artichokes than we are able to eat in time, though believe me, Shira and I are doing are best.

The peas are really going strong this spring, as well.

After 3 years (or was it 2?) the blueberries are producing.  Unfortunately, in a fit of pique I pulled out our other two blueberry plants, convinced they were all dying.  Feeling like a pretty big idiot right now.  They were $30 plants too. 

The orange tree is looking gorgeous.  Lucky for it, it is much more difficult to pull out, since we are still waiting for fruit ;).  Maybe next winter?

Those white flowers are on our blackberries.  There might be some pie in our future.

The pear tree is looking very happy.

Here is a close up on some of the pears growing now.

This is the stone fruit tree.  It has a wee bit of leaf curl, but otherwise looks very healthy.  So far all four of the fruits are growing - plums, peaches, nectarines and apricots.  I can't wait until they ripen and we can eat our own stone fruit from the garden.

And some of the harvest.  Above are one day's worth of sugar peas.

 And this is just one afternoon's haul of artichokes.  I've been picking at least 4 every other day, and sometimes this many for the last couple of weeks.