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Friday, June 22, 2018

Here it is!!


The teeny tiny garden, such as it is....



A little square of corn, pole beans, cucumbers. The zucchini next to the pole beans volunteered and came up.



Probably need to wear my reading glasses up at the garden. The bean vines were simply hanging in beans that I hadn't noticed until this morning.


and here's the rest of this morning's little gathering.

Last night we had bacon, lettuce, tomato sandwiches made with the first Cherokee Purple tomato from the garden. It was really good. 


and our little square of corn which actually looks like might give us a few ears of corn. That would be a first!

I stopped trying to grow corn back in the early 90's when our garden spot was nothing but red clay. I nearly had a heat stroke, out trying to stand up the corn stalks that had blown over during a thunderstorm. Crawling around on my hands and knees packing clumps of red mud against the corn stalks.

Never again!! That's when I knew we had to change the color of the soil if we were ever going to have a decent garden. Fencing in the garden spot was the second best thing we ever did.




Bean vines that were picked this morning.


These three cucumber vines want to grow out instead up the tee pee.

little row of sunflowers and cosmos...

and a little row of zinnias from which only one has bloomed.

So I'm closing the gate to the teeny tiny garden now and going back inside to snap the beans and put them on to cook for supper.

Shelby and Jimmy, my sister and brother-in-law grow a garden big enough to feed Durham County (I exaggerate a tiny bit), therefore our garden is the "teeny tiny garden".  But it's all we need. 

Love,
Henny

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34 comments:

  1. Wow! You have a lovely tiny garden! Everything grows early there. I am waiting for the zinnias I planted from seeds. They'll appear soon. Happy gardening, good Henny!

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  2. Your garden is fecund indeed, my fruit has done very well so far and the few veg that I have grown this year is looking okay. The lettuce and spinach was doing well until our heatwave and the lot bolted overnight.

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  3. Looks like a good harvest there

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  4. Your garden looks great. I'm so glad you are getting some good, fresh vegetable to enjoy.

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  5. Henny, your garden always looks so well-tended and productive.
    Well done !
    You've inspired me to make BLT's this evening for supper, so perfect for a light summer meal.
    Thank you for sharing your beautiful teeny-tiny farm with us, it is always so inviting.
    Hugs,
    ~Jo

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  6. awww, my pleasure! Always on the lookout for new friends! :)

    And wow, quite the haul of goodies! Lucky you!!

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  7. Your garden is doing so well and I love how flowers grow side-by-side with the veg. Aren't beans bad for hiding among the leaves and being hard to spot? My beans are just at the blooming stage now. I can hardly wait until they're ready to pick.

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  8. Your garden looks fantastic! I can tell many hours of hard work has gone into that garden. The vegetables you've picked look so good too - much better than what we see at the store. I can almost taste those green beans - yum!

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  9. Your garden and veggies look great. I have heard that putting in raised beds and fencing is a good practice.

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  10. Everything looks lovely! I didn't even bother with a garden this year. Not even a tomato or pepper plant. It is just too much trouble for just the two of us! We have a horrible clay problem, as well, and no matter how much we work it, there is still way too much clay to grow anything. Maybe next year. Enjoy those beans!

    Grace & Peace,
    Pam

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  11. diane in northern wisJune 22, 2018 at 3:53 PM

    Everything looks great in your garden Henny! And I'm glad you noticed all the beans hanging!!! What a wonderful plate full of delectable veggies for you to eat! I'd say you're doing a super job with your garden and it will reward you!!! Wish I lived nearby, I'd come over for a treat of some of your fresh veggies! (if invited of course!) Thanks for an always great blog and I love all your pictures!

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  12. Nothing so satisfying as growing your own garden and eating the produce.

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  13. I think I lost my comment! Anyway-I said that is a great looking garden. It looks like it is really producing and look at all those beans!

    There is a "fix" on my blog that seems to be working for those No Reply comments if you want to check it out. It is working for several of us-comments are coming into our email accts again.
    Have a great weekend- xo Diana

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  14. Love your teeny tiny garden. We have a bigger garden but it is so dry and we can not water it. Praying for rain down our way. Love you bunches

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  15. Your garden is just the perfect size. Those veggies pictures make me hungry! We have cut way back on what we are growing too, except for a big patch of sweet corn. I love that tall garden fence and gate!

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  16. I'm always impressed that you hae produce so early. We are a long way off from harvesting crops here.

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  17. Your teeny tiny garden looks fabulously healthy. How wonderful you can enjoy eating your very own produce.

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  18. I love your little garden. Compared to mine it is a big one. I have one raised bed, but it does Hubby and me very well.

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  19. Beautiful garden! It doesn't have to be huge to be productive!

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  20. Just enough is perfect for a garden. Can't believe you got through a post without an animal photo-bombing your pictures!

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  21. Everything looks so tidy and clean and healthy!

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  22. Your garden is just perfect! So neat and tidy, I know how much work it is! :)

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  23. Oh what a wonderful garden you have. Good luck with the corn this year.
    The gathering from your garden is beautiful, what great colors.

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  24. Such a beautiful garden, thanks for sharing the wonderful photos.
    Makes me want to get busy and grow something!

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  25. Your teeny tiny garden always amazes me! Everything seems to grow so fast, look at all the vegetables already, wow! We just have a lot of greens to eat from ours.

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  26. Your garden is doing well. We have had such has high temps for June this past week 93-98 with heat index up to 105) that my veggies are getting cooked -- before they get to the house. Yours looks so lush and pretty.

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  27. You have so much produce in your tiny garden. It looks so nice. My kids put down mats in their huge garden so they don't have to weed. They spend a lot of time and effort to grow their produce. They do a lot of canning with all that grows there. A lot of work for two people that are still working, but they do enjoy it. Those are some of my favorite flowers that you grow. Hugs, lj

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  28. Nice garden! What a lot of nice beans. Your garden is not tiny when next to mine! Have a great day! Nancy

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  29. Another lovely garden tour. Your garden is way, way, way ahead of mine, but I did pick a little over a pint of raspberries this morning. I put a pint into a freezer container and we ate the rest as a sweet snack. Now that our weather is warming up, our garden will start growing fast. Oh, I almost forgot. Most of our cabbage is ready to harvest, Steve worked with four heads yesterday and we chopped them and he is going to ferment them and make kraut. It is our first time to ever do this. We are learning from You Tube, LOL. Today I plan on chopping up another four heads and making another version that we found that you pack raw, mix in sugar, salt, vinegar and hot water and then water bath them. It will be interesting to see how each recipe turns out. Pray we don't kill ourselves learning to put up our garden.
    Your garden is lovely and I really like your fence and your gate . . . I have a thing for garden gates. I've never seen one that I didn't swoon over. Your's is very swoonable :)
    Happy Gardening!
    Connie :)

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  30. Looks like a great little garden to me and you are already reaping the benefits from it. There is nothing like freshly picked veggies.

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  31. I've just got on board...So to speak...! :).
    Thought l'd leave a little theory...
    "Throughout the world there are many different gardens
    that people have designed. In a Japanese garden, every
    tree is perfectly pruned, without a leaf out of place.
    Nothing is planted without forethought as to the exact
    place appropriate to it. There are English gardens that
    are famous for their roses and perfect lines of shrubbery.
    The number of garden types are too numerous to mention.
    One thing is true of all gardens. It is joint creation
    between man's intention to create a space of tranquility
    and nature's ability to comply"... =(චᆽච)=

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  32. That's a perfect garden! And yes -- good soil (deep, loose, dark) and that sturdy fence -- those are the keys, aren't they? This year we put our cukes in a bed that had tomatoes last year, so it had two heavy posts with a strong cable overhead, and slim ropes/cords hanging down. The tomatoes did okay trying to hang onto them, but man! The cukes love clinging to those ropes. It's the best cucumber "trellising" method I've come upon yet. Your pretty plate of colorful harvest looks GREAT!!!

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  33. Hello!! What a green thumb :-) it is a great garden. I love it. I thank you for taking us on a stroll thru it.
    Lots of hugs,
    Carla

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