Monday, May 18, 2009

Mary, Mary, quite contrary... how does your garden grow?

We have two of these raised beds. This one has heirloom tomatoes, red leaf lettuce, romaine, arugula, fennel, red cabbage and peppers. The one next to it (not pictured, because there aren't a lot of plants in it yet) has beets, more tomatoes, more peppers, onions, and room for other stuff. I'm thinking okra and more beets.
All of our plants are going to have an uphill battle of survival if this continues. If Gus disappears someday soon, this will be why...
This is the strawberry patch and rhubarb bush. On the other side of the fence, we have cantaloupe and raspberry bushes.
And here, behind the house, we have the herb garden. On either side of the herbs is a zucchini plant and a patty pan squash plant.

And here are just some other random pictures of the house and yard. We have spent the last four weekends (plus many weekday hours from me), working on the outside of the house and yard. We've made LOTS of changes since we've moved in. One of these days, we'll be having the house painted and getting some professional landscaping. But for now, this is good enough for us...


6 comments:

the boywonder's wife said...

I love house pictures! Quite the gardener you've become, Mary, but isn't the growing season like 30 seconds long?

DorothyMantooth said...

Alright, I'm excited as HELL to see these pics. (And more ahem, RELEVANT comments lateer.)

But Tom Mattback!! Rod Steward is MASSACRING your favorite song on (TiVoed) AI right now!! MAN, do I hope you guys are watching this right now!

('Cause, um... We're watching. And we MISS YOU GUYS SO MUCH!!)

DorothyMantooth said...

Okay. Now that I've (finished Idol and) actually looked, WOW! The house actually looks really BIG! (At least compared with NYC. You know how it goes.) And the yard is AWESOME! Hammock, whatwhat! Ha! To be enjoyed, as my Mrs. Wonder has opined, about 30 seconds a year?!

Haha! You-live-in-the-Canadian-tundra jokes never get old! ;-)

DorothyMantooth said...

Also, that was meant to say "my brilliant Mrs. Wonder."

Sigh. It's just not the same (read: coherent) drinking without youse guys.

the girl wonder said...

thank you for the "brilliant," but seriously, we wish we could visit with you guys - then we would have ventured farther north than upstate Manhattan!

The Curessa said...

It looks so good! And I can't believe how big Gus has gotten since I've seen him last.