Comments on: July 09 Bloom Day in a Small Kitchen Garden

By: Jennah

Jennah — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 12:53:39 +0000

The Winningest Weed – I have that one too, and it is so pretty! And I, too, have spend 5 minutes kneeling down to try and get a good macro shot of it. I’d like to trade this stuff in for some crabgrass, please!

By: admin

admin — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 17:29:54 +0000

healingmagichands: Thank you for your kind words. It was remarkable to me that a honeybee landed on the clover just as I was stepping into the garden to shoot pics for GBBD.

Christina: Thank you so much.

Granny Fran: I sometimes wonder if my kitchen garden is beautiful to me in the same way that an awkward, pimple-faced, pug-nosed, squinky-eyed teenager is to her mom and dad. I think it’s gorgeous – especially as the young seedlings emerge, and later as the plants flower and fruit.

Sylvana: I would love to have the room and the energy to make my kitchen garden more of a picnic area. It’s so small and tightly-crowded now that I don’t want anyone walking in it; sometimes I accidentally damage plants. Long-term, I plan to replace my lawn mostly with plants that provide food: grapes on trellises, strawberries in raised beds surrounded with benches, fruit trees, blueberry bushes, and raspberry brambles. Some day, my yard will be my kitchen garden, and there will be many inviting places for people to linger (without damaging my plants).

By: Sylvana

Sylvana — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:34:40 +0000

I have been loving y vegetable garden this year and have even been considering reconfiguring it so that there is a sitting area in the middle. Your vegetable garden could rival many ornamental gardens!

By: Granny Fran

Granny Fran — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 05:42:41 +0000

I like to think of my veggie garden as being as ornamental as the flowers and herbs, so I love your photos. Self sown dill is a special love of mine; beautiful to look at, smells divine, and tastes good. I hope I can get my Cilantro to start self seeding. My squash, eggplant, and borage flowers are gorgeous.

By: Christina Salwitz

Christina Salwitz — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 02:02:45 +0000

Very, very good pics! Veggies flowers are not easy targets. You made me want to be not only a better veggie gardener, but better photographer too.

By: healingmagichands

healingmagichands — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 23:45:28 +0000

Hi, I like your kitchen garden very much. I know exactly what you mean about cilantro, it is beautiful but boy does it reseed itself. I have it “confined” to a patch and yet I find it in the gravel of the paths, etc.

Your flowers are beautiful and I am totally with you on the beauty of lettuces. What a happy bee! You are fortunate to have them.