May 21, 2011- Planting Summer Garden

Planting Our Summer Garden 2011!


As we planted our garden, our friend the Monarch Butterfly, blessed us with its presence. With sweet confidence, it fluttered near by for a long time.


Figuring out our spacing.


Getting ready to plant.


Seeds and six packs of color ready to go in.


Our homemade compost from our worm compost bin, "Can-O-Worms". Yum!!


Planted the Japanese Cucumbers, Tomatoes, Eggplants, Milk Weed, Giant Zinnias, flowers and more!


Around the bed, into the herb section...




Lots of Tomatoes and Basil!


Tomatoes, Basil, Peppers galore!


Pumpkins, Lebanese Squash, Marigolds, Giant Zinnias and Elves Sunflowers.


Front Fence: Chocolate Cosmos, Marigolds, Rudbeckias, Daisies, Petunias...


Watering all in.


Bless this garden!


Welcome Summer 2011!

Rainbows In My Garden Make My Day

Good Morning! Namaste.








It's the little details that make me smile big.


Sweet peas are coming!


My hemp string is up, so that my sweet peas may climb up, up and away!

Night Gardening

Like a nymph in the night, my husband and I sneak away to the garden. Racing for sunset, we blew in with the wind while the last of the warm sun rays were dipping into the ocean. I had a plan.

We must staple hemp rope to the back of the front gate for my sweet peas to venture up and hang crystals in the windows. Sprinkle magic upon the space in the dark of night. We began the work with the Christmas lights glowing behind us on the streets. People walked by, yet no one noticed us working hard like little elves. It was as if we were secret fairies hiding within the peaceful green nest that we built. Dancing with plants in the breeze.

I felt almost mischievous under the waning Virgo moon light. Like as if we were bound by daylight and shouldn't be there. But we were. And it was magical and sweet. Rest well my little friends. See you when rainbows are glistening.

Giving Thanks: Updated Pictures November 28th

Happy Thanksgiving!

I am grateful for my beautiful life and my beautiful family that makes life worth living.


My wildflower seeds are coming up. Once they get larger (by January), I may buy a color pack to throw in as well.


My beets, chard and snapdragons.


This bed is getting huge! Happy plants.




Main bed is filling in nicely. Especially with the large cabbage, broccoli and cheddar cauliflower.


Sugar snaps! I transplanted 3 of the seeds that came up, in order to make my spacing ideal around my iron structure.





My lettuce patch is being eaten. I am in the process of figuring out what little creature is devouring this patch. However, my other lettuce patch is flourishing, as you can see in pictures below. My herbs are not much bigger, but I would imagine by spring, their favorite season, they will fill in that entire area.


This foxglove is so happy.






My romaine lettuce.

ANNOUNCING: Main St. Winter Garden

Winter Garden 2010!


Like a giddy girl, I excitedly made a plan the night before planting. I wrote out all that I had purchased at local stores (mainly mom and pop shop, Merrihews Sunset Gardens). I then thought about what plants would grow well near each other and my sun exposure and designed it from their.


Compost and worms!


This is our homemade compost from our worm compost bin at home. It was filled with hundreds of worms! I made sure to bring lots of worms in order to aerate the soil. As you can see, I love it as much as our garden. :)


We spread out the compost and worms in each bed before planting and welcomed them to their new home. We also had already dug our beds and amended the soil two weeks prior. We used Organic Amend and a very small amount of Organic Chicken Manure.


I then laid out the plants (still in their packs) in the spaces where I wanted them. I rearranged my spacing several times before planting, in order to create optimum spacing/sun exposure for the needs of each plant.




I had just finished planting my red cabbage.






This front bed has Bright Lights Swiss Chard, Early Wonder Beets, Snap Dragons and Lavender (given to me by my gardening buddy on Park Dr., Radana). At the base of the front fence (in front and behind on BOTH sides) are Knee High Sweet Peas and a Wildflower Mix.


The other front bed has Carnival Multi-colored Carrot seeds and a Romain Lettuce patch surrounded by Pansy's. Also, the Knee High Sweet Peas and Wildflowers in front.


This is my main bed that has larger veggies, multiple flowers, an herbal patch and greens. I planted Red Cabbage, Marathon Broccoli, Cheddar Cauliflower, Sugar Peas, Vintage Stalks, Pansys, Rocket Snap Dragons, Foxy Foxgloves, Lady Lavender, Berggarten Sage, Pineapple Sage, Milk Weed (Asclepias Tuberosa), Summerwine Yarrow (deep burgundy red), Bachelor Buttons and Romaine Lettuce.


Herbal section that I will build upon. I would love to add Chamomile!





Our childrens garden space! I had to create room for them to dig, explore and play. Right now my eldest is almost 3 and enjoys the process of digging and destroying rather than planting. We want him to just enjoy time in the garden now and eventually learn how to grow his own plants. I did throw in some Lettuce and Chard in his section, to get him interested. He actually enjoys munching on it as he plays.


Aside from our black soil compost, we also have compost juice. We had almost a bucket full!! Before we watered, we poured the compost juice around all the plants in each bed.


Watering everything in.




Enjoying the moment.