I purchased this lavender plant a few weeks ago from the Hub City Farmer's Market. It's grown a lot since I potted it and it smells wonderful! In the background is my favorite little blue chair I got from an antique store/ flea market.
I just purchased this transplant last week from a guy people call "The Professor". He grows and sells transplants and fresh veggies from home for a killer price! Most of the transplants are $1 and his veggies are cheaper then at the grocery store. You can even pick a gallon of blackberries for only $10- that's only $2 a pint! This particular bell pepper will actually be purple when fully grown! The Professor had some already full grown peppers and they are beautiful!
This is a very small sampling of our blackberries! I can probably pick 2-4 cups a day of berries right now, if I had time, and there are just as many red berries that will be ripening soon. It's been great having the huge production this year. I've made a few desserts with them and have been putting them in my salads for lunch frequently. The best part is being able to "gift" freshly picked blackberries to friends and family. I can even show them the little cuts I got on my hands from the thorns from picking their berries that morning. That's a labor of love!
Figs in waiting! Our fig tree has loads of unripened figs just soaking up the sun and waiting for their time to shine! We may put some kind of netting or a fake owl in the tree to deter birds from eating the sweet fruits.
A peak at the front beds of the house. You can see Frank the Frog defending the garden, the varigated liriope, the nandina bushes, and the newest addition to the garden, caladiums!
Front to back: Garlic chives, Roma tomato plant in wire hoop, jalapeno plant, a very dry rain barrel, wood pile.
The tomato plant is hard to see behind the freshly planted, sprawling chives but the plants are doing very well!
Green beans! This is one of several plants producing beans. I will be snapping those suckers off today and preparing a delightfully fresh dish with them!
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