More Garden Pictures

Are you tired of seeing my garden yet? This is our fourth garden. All of those little plants out in the middle is our medicinal/herb garden. Years and years ago when we lived in town and my kids were small, I grew herbs to help when the kids were sick. We would make teas out of dried mullein leaves and peppermint and strawberry leaves because it would break up coughs and colds. I grew other things like comfrey for bruises and camomile because it is my favorite tea.  This year when my husband decided he wanted to grow these things we had such a hard time finding herb seeds like I had known in the past. I am glad that I brought my mullein with me when we moved. You can't find it now, and being afraid of going out in the wild to collect it, I just keep looking. This year we have horehound, and camomile and fennel, and we have all of our mints up by the house. We have lots more but right now the names escape me.

This isn't the best picture of my zinnias. It is hard to get really nice shots because these places are bigger than they look on camera. Having this bed of zinnias as my girls said yesterday, is like having fireworks out in the garden. They do make me so happy.

This one is a bit better with the herbs in the background. We have growing in flats in the shed about this many feverfew plants. I like it because it looks like tiny little daisy's so I am going to plant that in my flower beds around the house.

 Can you tell what this is? It is my pumpkin patch. They will grow so much with this heat we will be having for the next few days. The pumpkins love 100+ degree weather. But so do the weeds. I can't believe I weeded this place on Saturday and I already have weeds. In this bed are giant pumpkins and Cinderella pumpkins and regular cooking pumpkins.

Over in the middle of the garden I have a bed with Jack-be-little. You know the tiny pumpkins. I didn't plant any gourds this year. I meant to but I just never got around to it and gourds need a very long growing time, or they do here. To have a nice gourd crop I need to have them in the ground by April. I was still trying to decide if I was going to put a garden in in April.

I have to say, so far this is my favorite garden. I don't know why. Maybe it is that we spaced it far enough apart that we can get the tractor in to help with the weeds. I don't know if it is that I planted more flowers.
When I walk outside the gate in the mornings and I see all of that stuff growing and I walk around and look at things and then my chickens wander around with me just being chickens. To me it is the prettiest place in the world. I feel very thankful when I am out in the garden. In the evening when the sun is setting and we sit out there and the crickets start singing their summer songs I know why God planted a garden and put man in the midst of it.

Summer is just the best.
Have a lovely weekend,
~Kim~