We have been on a planting orgy around here. Not only is this the time of year when most of the vegetable seeds and seedlings go into the potager, we have also embarked on a major campaign to add more shrubs—particularly flowering shrubs—to the property.
Sophie and Sarah inspect the vegetable plantings in the potager.
Thank goodness Harry is a good sport and has a strong back and good endurance. The hardpan clay soil we have here in Southern Maryland makes digging new beds and planting trees and shrubs a major weekend endeavor.
The wisteria on the fence is getting there. The peonies won’t be far behind.
And I’m so tired, that’s it. The end.
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Hi! I'm Robin Ripley author of Wisdom for Home Preservers, published by Taunton Press. I am also co-author of Grocery Gardening. Bumblebee is about my life in rural Maryland, my garden and my love of food, my little dogs and pet chickens. You can follow me on Twitter, Pinterest and Facebook. Thank you for visiting!
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It looks beautiful already, Robin. I love the wisteria/peony combo. Your little dogs are so sweet and cute.
Wow! I dream about an end result like your garden. Somehow the results of my labours never seem to look as good!
Oh i could so easily sit and drink a cup of tea on that bench. It is all looking lovely.
Too bad you’re too busy to sit in your garden, the girls seem to be enjoying its ambience. You’ve got me hankering after a picket fence on which to grow Wisteria.
So pretty. Love your little girls too.~~Dee
How lovely it all looks, Robin. Desn’t it feel good to add big “bones” to the garden? I can’t wait to hear what you’ll be cooking from the potager.
We are moving into high gear here, too. We are getting a new fence around our ‘potager’ but it is strictly utilitarians – to keep out the deer. There can never be too many flowering shrubs.
I have a question – Do you treat your wooden bench and your raised bed edges with any preservatives?
They look in remarkably good condition but appear to have not been treated
Andrew,
The wooden bench is made from untreated cedar. I don’t do anything to the bench to care for it. Perhaps I should? I do keep the wooden legs from touching the ground though. The bench is sitting on stone pavers.
The raised beds also are made from 4″ x 4″ untreated cedar posts. They were difficult to find–and expensive. But they have held up well for more than 6 years now.
Thanks for visiting.
Robin