The garden is a busy place right now. In fact I’ve declared today to be an official garden day; there’s much to be done this weekend.
I spent an evening picking strawberries, placing the good ones in one bucket, the not so good ones in another (and throwing the moldy ones over my shoulder.) The not so good ones were to be a treat for the chickens. They were hardly interested in them though!
Potatoes are starting to flower, and the spinach is bolting. Garlic scapes are appearing and the red clover’s glory has ended. Our bees are multiplying. We work side by side with them in the garden and the girls are very sweet talking about their “honeys.” Every now and then we happen upon the busy scene of a bunch of new bees taking their first flights and getting oriented outside the hives.
I have done a good job keeping detailed notes-lots of them, but I am not going to type them this time because I’ve hurt my right thumb, and typing is painful!
How is your garden growing?
Everything looks so good! The shot of the whole garden in the sunlight is so lovely, and the bee shots are just fabulous.
I am totally in love with your space and blog! Thanks for putting this link up out there. I can’t wait to see posts from the other linkys.
Joining your garden club today. Enjoy seeing all the results from the efforts the gardeners put forth.
Your chick(en)s look like they’re about the same age as ours!:) We are loving them! Enjoy your beautiful garden!
Best,
Sarah
I am yet to even try understanding the plants on a different side of the hemisphere but oh my your photography skills are better than ever on these pictures – please can I ask what lens you have used? That pic of the bees and your boys is just fantastic – as are the rest!! I need that Lens!!
I didn’t get to do my gardening until Monday morning so I’m late. #16
The gardens are looking great! Your chickens are getting big and look as loved as ever. 🙂 I love the shots of the bees with the children in the background. What an experience for them! My gardens, much, much smaller than yours, are growing well, and we’ve finally found a way to keep the bunnies and field mice out which is a relief since they were eating half of our plants!
I love your bee pictures! My husband wants to get bees, but I am so nervous about the girls being around them. It looks like your little ones are doing just fine!
I wanted to leave a comment on the Mouro Families blog but I don’t have a google account. I just wanted to let them know my family is praying for them.
I love seeing your garden beds come alive! It didn’t see that long ago that they were still very quiet with cool winter weather.
Thank you for sharing your photos, although I am totally jealous that your strawberry season has already begun!
Must remember to update our garden’s progress soon and will post a link then.
xoxo
~ joey ~
Your garden looks lovely. So green and full of life. Waiting for some sun here…….
Love the bee pics with the kids in the background – so beautiful!
-Jaime
Beautiful bee pictures!!!
LOVE all the bee pictures Ginny, and it’s awesome to see you’ve supered them. You’re always a few weeks ahead of us here in the west, it’s fun to watch what’s ‘coming’.
Our bees are doing well, it’s been my favorite adventure so far. Seeing your pictures makes me want to move them into our yard so the girls can be more a part of it all…but seems silly when we have a 40 acre apple orchard to keep them in!
And our chickens…they have recently started singing an ‘egg song’ which creates QUITE the racket. We had a get rid of the ‘roo last year as he was too noisy for our neighbors, perhaps I’ll be getting out hens soon too if they keep up the hoopla when they lay eggs. Have yours ever done that?
I love bee photos!
Your garden looks great.
Beautiful photos of your garden! Our ducks were disinterested in strawberries, too. But they enjoyed the lettuce that we pulled out to make room for the summer garden produce!
Looks beautiful and so green! I would so love to have bees someday. For the time being we are watching the honeybees feast on our hollyhock. Which is so much fun. Our garden is doing well in sunny NM. This is my first year trying a square foot garden.
Praying for Truman. Can’t wait to hear he is recovered.
B
Those bee shots are incredible! Well done!
love the shots…
I really love how you captured the bees flying with the children in the background.
How did you do it? You must have a much steadier hand (and head) then me!
you blueberries are looking great.
T
I always enjoy your pictures but the one with your son in the orange shirt watching the bees fly in amazing. His awestuck face is fab.
Love to read your Saturday Garden Journal and look at the pictures.
Hi! New follower here. I am wondering, is your family able to consume everything that comes from your garden or do you find, with a garden that size, that you have extras to pass along to friends? Forgive me if you have answered this question before.
Olivia
Sometimes we have extra, it all depends. There are a lot of us, so it takes a lot to feed us!
Thanks for the response!
Yum blueberries! The bees are captivating.
Your garden looks beautiful! There is so much to do in ours right now, I wish we could spend all our time out there.
I just linked to a post with pictures from our May garden.
Now we are leaving for the local market to sell our art.
Wishing you a wonderful Saturday.
beautiful photos!
It is fun watching your garden grow. Strawberries already how fun! Ours are still in flowers!
Yes, and she has a blue blueberry, our blueberries just have blossoms right now. 🙂
only on one bush (the rest are small and green) and it isn’t really blue. I tasted one–bitter!!!
I love the looks that chickens give to a new food. Mine were terrified of strawberries until I mashed them up and mixed the mash with grass. Before I did that they would look at them sideways and make that purring/squawk alarm noise. I’m really interested in how the bees go over the next year or so. We’re taking the leap next spring!
Loving those bee photos! Sharing my garden journal from last Saturday, as I won’t have time today to put up a new post. We’re off to our local herb festival this morning and then picking up a load of soil to fill several new raised beds which will then be planted with whatever herbs we picked up…should be a productively fantastic day!! Thanks for hosting, ~Lisa
No garden here, just a few herbs and badly mauled tomato plants, but I look at your garden and day dream…