the remaking of a kitchen

Lots of action today. david has been working in his garden....planting his fall crops which sounds absolutely foreign to this minnesota gardener. i got some images of his front garden plants....tomatoes and peppers and then caught the gardner at work! david drew out the plan for his back garden plot, purchased the appropriate plants and then put them in the ground in the proper order. if you look carefully you can see the first two ripe strawberries in the back garden plot.
the hydrangea isn't something david planted but i included the photo because it is so very gorgeous right now!

Labels: garden, hydrangea, red peppers, sarah and david, tomatoes

i am slowly trying to clear some of the excess and unwanted plants from the garden under the autumn blaze maple. i have, with don's help, removed the two evergreen shrubs that suddenly grew into big things after starting life in a smaller mode. i planted a hydrangea and a green japanese maple in their stead. earlier this week i made an offer of a good sized sedum to brian and he accepted and appeared to dig it out and trundle it across the street. i am now pulling a lot of "something" that has tried to take over another adjoining area. with the evergreens gone i can see that the stella d'oras are in the wrong place, so they need to move a bit. on and on.
i am now thinking that when the city moves the sidewalk from behind our fence to the area closer to the street i will consider planting hosta out there. grass seems reluctant to grow and hosta seem to like the weather here. it will mean some water, but we can manage that.
can you tell that as a garden planner i tend to work backwards????

Labels: evergreens, garden, japanese maple, sedum

the kazoos arrived earlier this week. they are pretty cute.....lots of colors! i hope we all have fun with them at the y camp. i'm getting excited to be there and see everyone. we still haven't figured out our schedule as yet. we have a slight excuse in that the painter just may be able to do our house before we leave. that will be a treat for sure. it NEEDS it!
we are trying to do a few things to get the yard under control. a constant battle i might add. there is always something growing where it shouldn't as we try to encourage the things we really want to grow in the same spot. go figure! my grass planting on the other side of the fence seems to be paying off a bit.....there is actually green appearing in the midst of all the dirt there. yea!

Labels: garden, kazoos, painting

i finally remembered to take a shot of the veggie "garden" and i use that term loosely!
the plant to the left is the runaway cucumber that gary purchased for me to grow, the middle mostly obscured extremely dainty vine is a cuke that is supposed to be round and was rescued by gary from the chuck and plopped into this space. the next plant is my cherry tomato that looks like it might actually present me with more that 2 toms for the season. the runaway is looking pretty prolific and i hope to have enough for a big bowl of cucumbers and onions this weekend. yum

Labels: cukes and onions, garden