With summer in full swagger, even a flatlander can identify a few species among the many in a Green Mountain garden. There are those things inherited. Like the poppies, some simple and some flashy. All bearing their bloom on spindly stalks. 
Berries. At first I thought rasp. Now I believe black. Is it possible that it's Marion? Potentially fatal if ingested?
This I planted. I've no idea what the hell this is. I'm making bets that it's a purple bean because that seed packet has been manhandled. Time and stalks will tell.
Pod. Pea. Green. GREEN PEA! Thank the green goddess for making some things obvious. Unless this is a sugar snap. Now I'm not sure whether to eat the pod or to shell it.
Swiss chard. I'm positive. But maybe kale? No, definitely Swiss chard. Kale?
Cabbage patch. Perhaps the first and only time that the vegetable is more cuddly than the ghastly baby doll that bore its name. 
THIS is a tomato. Please don't ask me what kind.
Gorgeous!! I love watching a garden grow!
ReplyDeleteThe tomato looks like it might be plum, given it's shape.
Maybe the swiss chard/kale is spinach?? Kale and swiss chard have curly edges, don't they??
I planted garlic for the first time, it is so funky the way it grows.
And so glad that Freegrace blog is back - missed it!
Beautiful! Oh, and look a bonus picture of the scary dog (LOL)!
ReplyDeleteI have to agree with you on the cabbage...definitely better than the dolls! Would love to have one or two of those in my garden. Sigh...maybe someday.
ReplyDeleteLooks like that tomato could be a Beefsteak :o)
ReplyDeleteGardening is so fun! And yummy! Gorgeous photos. Swiss chard -- you can tell by the white stalks. Yes, purple string beans. LOVE the top poppy with red and purple.
ReplyDeleteLove the poppies and the puppy!! Catahoulas Rock!!
ReplyDeleteLovely!!
ReplyDeleteI'm totally garden illiterate but love it just the same. It's my therapy (probably because we only have a few months to do it.. if I lived in a sunshine state I wouldn't be so gung ho). LOL
PS My rule of thumb (for CO planting) is always wait until after Mother's Day. NEVER before.
There a few things more satisfying than planting the seeds and watching a garden grow - beautiful!
ReplyDeleteCheers,
Sandy
Wonderful! I wish I lived in a place that fostered an outdoor garden. The temperatures in Phoenix killed my basil growing attempts.
ReplyDeleteI think you may like this blog; she posts lovely pictures of her farming adventures.
http://sweetgrace.typepad.com/the_inadvertent_farmer/
Your tomato looks like the grape variety I planted in my yard here in Austin. I don't know how much longer it will survive though, with all this heat and humidity! Love the pictures of your plants and your captions had me giggling on this dreary day. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteAmazing photos! So fresh and vibrant, I feel re-energised just looking at them!
ReplyDeletePurple bean... yes.
ReplyDeleteSwiss chard... yes.
And the tomato? It's a Roma.
Those snap peas take me back to being on my Grandma's farm!
ReplyDeleteDefinitely chard and snow peas. Happy to see that first flower, a floral member of the "Red Hat Society"? I've been using leftover yarns in those colors (among others) to crochet granny squares for Boston's Pine Street Inn Knit-a-thon project, that assembles them into blankets for homeless people transitioning into stable housing. I favor more subtle color combinations but seeing that Ma Nature likes red with purple bolsters my opinion of my contributions - so thanks for the unintentional moral support!
ReplyDeleteBack when cabbage patch dolls were scarce as hen's teeth, a friend brought some back from Canada, where they were packaged in such a way that the names couldn't be seen. I wanted one to donate to a charity raffle so she described them to me on the phone. One was a preemie in an apricot baby gown. When I asked Polly what color the hair was, she said, with Kentucky wit, "Well, she duddn't have any yet, but she looks like she's fixin' to be a redhead". I chose her and turns out her computer-generated name was Ramona Leona, a great name that I later used for a rescued calico cat with a red patch on the top of her head. The cat, and that particular doll, would have given your cabbages some competition in the cuteness department. Love cabbage, especially in Frikadellen!
Definitely not kale...could be chard, but it looks a lot like spinach. And those look like black raspberries...non-fatal type. How do you keep the worms off your cabbage? I finally had to harvest mine early to keep them from eating it all. It made the best coleslaw though. The purple bloomed one is deifinitely a bean of some variety (recognized the leaf). And I'm pretty sure that's a Roma tomato, because it looks just like mine and mine has a label beside it. Love this blog!
ReplyDeleteJust lovely.
ReplyDeleteI live in NYC, but have a not so secret love affair with Vermont.
When I do get up there every Spring and Summer, I work the farms/gardens with my friends who live there full time.
These pictures make me swoon.
Ohh the memories those pictures bring back. Lovely photos!
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