Spring garden

Well, it's summer now, but here are some "spring" pictures of my garden. It's doing great! I took these pictures 2 weeks ago and you should see it now. With a recent rain, everything has shot up another foot!

The following pictures are my raised veggie beds.... strawberries, Walla Walla sweet onions, tomatoes and lemon cucumbers. The strawberries didn't have many berries, but I think most of the plants are everbearing, so I will have more berries later in the summer.

The nasturtiums that I planted last summer, came back with a vengence, so I took most of them out! There are a few left in amonst the strawberries!

My two tomato plants have grown at least a foot since I took these pictures! Same with the lemon cucumbers. I'll take more pictures once the rain stops!

See the pointy things in the middle? Those are artichokes! I've never planted them before and have no idea what they should look like or if I'll get any fruit.

My flowers are all looking great and my yellow roses are opening up! I've netted my vegetables so the deer won't eat everything! I didn't net any flowers, and the deer do LOVE roses, so one of these days, I may go outside and have my roses all eaten. I have a bird bath closeby, so the deer may want to come and drink. I really should move the birdbath!

I planted some more pansies in a couple of planter pots that I got from my neighbor.

My fuschias should be starting to get flowers very soon.

The nasturtiums are taking over in the front planters also! I've pulled some out to give the petunias underneath a chance.

Neighbors one lone foxglove. My property in Washougal, WA used to be covered with hundreds of them!

Neighbor's cute array of garden goodies.

First strawberries.

Maddie says hi!

Besides enjoying my garden, I spent a few days a month ago, watching our old old wood fence being removed from behind the mobile homes on one side of the park, to make way for a new tall chain link fence. That old wood fence has probably been here for at least 30 years! and then......... they removed a bunch of big old growth fir trees that were too close to the homes and ruining any fence that was there.. also to make room for the new fence. That was fun to watch!

Here's the old fence. I'd already removed a bunch of the boards.

I'd removed about every other board, using my handy dandy battery screwdriver. It worked great, but many of the screws were so rusty, that my screwdriver would not budge them. I wanted to save the better boards, to use for building "something"! (not sure what)

Here's my first stack of boards. The neighbor came over and  helped me take many more off, using his impact screwdriver. Now I need one of those. It worked so  much better.

Then came the tree falling, a few days later.........

That huge tree was encroaching into the wall of this mobile home! 

Fence all gone! See the old stumps that are on my lot? Those trees were cut down years ago to make room for the old wood fence. I hope to have those removed one of these days, so I'll have more room for vegetables. 

Now we're just waiting for the new fence. I hear that the company has been  hired and they have the supplies, so it may happen hopefully in the next couple of weeks. It sure opened up my yard area and this entire side of the park has more sun now. A win win situation, but hated to see those beautiful old trees go.

FINAL NOTE: Whenever I go into town, or at least once a week, I usually go to town (it's about 9 miles from me so I run all my errands at once), and go to McDonald's, and then find a nice place to park on one of the hills overlooking the town. I ALWAYS have a stunning view! 

It's hard to tell, but I'm WAY up high on a hill!

Until next time... please everyone enjoy the start of Summer!

Marilyn

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