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May 10, 2009 | 45 Comments
Chokecherry blossoms
Today, we finished our planting for the season – herbs, veggies, fruit.
Herbs in the Patio
Last year’s arugula growing wild
The strawberry plants are multiplying fast, but there’s not a single berry.
Applemint growing from both ends of the pot.
Newly-planted Pear tree
The cherry tree we planted a few weeks ago has fruit. Will they ripen before the birds get to them?
Jai plants tomatoes.
He made biodegradable bags by stapling together sheets of landscape fabric. These are great for composting and for growing potatoes.
Grass clippings for composting.
Filed Under: Applemint, Arugula, Cherry, chokecherry, composting, GARDENING, herbs, Mint, Pear, Photo Essays, Strawberry, Tomato
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Such heartwarming pictures. I wish to have a bountiful garden like yours someday.
I was telling a friend just the other day about the new potatoes you grew last year and sent her the link from your blog. When she experiments I’ll let you know.
The applemint grows back every year?
mint dies down, but it scatters so many seeds, that it comes back.
Mint is a perennial. It lives forever. I am still pulling up roots that have traveled from one end of the yard to the other. Keep mint in a container.
Such an effort! I wish I had space to grow SOMETHING!
Very Inspiring! the strawberries multiplies like that?!
I have two plants now, curry leaves which I bought as a baby plant and green chillies that I sowed and are now baby plants. I don’t have a balcony, garden or even a window sill that gets sunlight. So what I do is, when the sun streams in through the windows, I put the plants in it and keep moving them through the day as the light moves. Then again, this is only over weekends.. my plants are not dying on me yet
try keeping them in a small moist place like the bathroom with a light on when you are away at work.
Nice and beautiful garden! I can see hard efforts behind ur garden. Guys…total how many(roughly)veges-fruits,herbs have been planted in ur backyard?
Great work!
ten types of fruit trees/bushes, about ten herbs, five types of tomatoes, three types of potatoes, about ten other types of veggies and four or five types of greens.
u guys r awesome….wish we had that kind of land in this crazy place we call north california
Lovely garden. Till now I have seen few parts of the garden in your pics and now can imagine how big would it be. Imagining a lovely moonlit dinner there during summer
excellent! All I’ve done so far is plant herbs — the deer are ravenous on anything not right up close to the house!
oh!! i cant help but sigh at the green…. we locked up the house in this crushing summer for 4 full days and i came back to much wilted plants…angry at me for making them languish…and the curry leaves plant… it just died on me… i have no one to blame sadly
…. your pics are so lush…enjoy the fruits of your labour…
Awesome! You’re going to enjoy the fruits of your labor. Have a great week.
Paz
A beautiful garden! I wish I had one…
Cheers,
Rosa
We too planted few veggies & berries in mid April. Awaitin their appearance now.
The two of you have a beautiful yard, and I like your pergola!
Hey Jai: sexy legs!
I agree! I didn’t see any other pics on this page. Only those legs.
Love your garden. How nice to have fruit trees!
That applemint from underneath:
Did somebody heard me saying big J…..?This looks like my dream place.Though i prefer the convenience of residential Apartments, i would love to switch home with you guys for some vacation ,spending my days in such a lovely garden, plucking cherries and strawberries(hopefully the plant will have some till then).Ofcourse it would be tedious to maintain such a manicured garden , but i have a hubby dear who can take care of that while i click him toiling
Wow yçou guys have strawberry plants in your garden.
That has to be really good.
The only herbs i have in my verand is parsley, mint,thyme etc…….and that too in tiny pots
What a wonderful garden…we’ve started a few bits here and there…let’s see whta comes of them
Lovely Garden. Your efforts to keep it that way are evident. Kudos
Beautiful garden. You will love having a pear tree. We have two, which we inherited when we bought our house, and with some hard pruning during the first couple of years (the trees had been neglected — so sad), they have been giving us hundreds of pears in the late summer each year. Enjoy!
Yay! Excited by the promise of a bountiful strawberry crop
Nice quads, Jai (heh 
Wow!! I’m just amazed. The garden looks beautiful!!
Jai you are cutting a fine figure in Bee’s great photographs. What a lovely garden you are creating there together. I am jealous of your “surplus” arugula. It is already hot here and mine all bolted some time ago. I am reduced to buying it in the store and the local stuff won’t last much longer.
Oddly enough my strawberry plants are not multiplying, but are producing berries. Maybe they do those tasks in turn. Berry first then multiply, then berry up again? I do know I have to watch carefully and harvest the berries before completely ripe or one of 3-4 other interested outdoor eaters with full time access will grab them all.
I like your shade cloth idea, especially for composting. The raccoons here keep digging up under the side, getting into our plastic container. I wonder if using a shade cloth alternative would prevent that. Hmmmm……
Lucky you! I’m so far behind this year, but my house is still a major construction zone. I did get a few things planted this weekend though. I’m still looking for a couple of plants that I really want. For some reason, not many squash plants are showing up at any of the stores here yet.
Nice legs on that Jai too! He looks very fit.
Lovely garden! I dream of growing my own herbs and veggies like this one day
Hey Bee,
Do you plan to have tomatoes on the ground too? If so have you transplanted them already? I keep moving mine indoors at night (zone 5). Maybe I’ll wait until May 15th to transplant them. All the best with your garden and keep posting those gorgeous pictures.
you can plant them and put a wall of water around.
http://www.planetnatural.com/site/wallo-water.html
grt pics! amazing bit of work, especially the biodegradable bags. Wish I had the space and land I would…
The garden is keeping u busy! Look like a small farm u own on ur backyard! I am wondering ur straw how they multiplied
I feel u guy have a great agriculture soil!
Yum! And you know what I am talking about
i like grass and weed too.
Your garden looks neat. The only plants in my so-called yard are roses as they are low maintenance.Tried planting tomatoes, but they die pretty soon..LOL. And ofcourse, there is mint everywhere .Sometimes, my roses smell like mint too..;-)
U have a wonderful garden! that is to say, u 2 have kept it that way!!
you have turned that backyard into an awesome piece of land with a beautiful garden, pebbles, pavement etc. I know how big of an effort it is…just lawn mowing and watering for me is a huge effort. Once kids are out of infant stage, want to start with growing herbs atleast.
Inspired by you both.
**Cheers**
Oh, such a pretty, pretty yard!!!
I love Jai’s idea on the fabric. And…I do LOVE composting. I smile just thinking about it
…nothing is ever wasted.
Bee, when the Blue Heron was feasting on my fish pond I bought netting (in my attempt(s) to ward him off), it didn’t keep him from the fish, but the following year it kept the sparrows from nipping at my tomato plants.
Beautiful garden Jai & Bee! What a pleasure it must be to work amongst plants and the smell of moist earth and freshly trimmed plants!
Hope the cherries survive.
you have a beautiful garden Jai and Bee. We had a frost warning couple of days ago and had to bring all the tomato plants in.
U have an amazing garden…i know how much goes into it coz had one.
Well, my tulsi babies have now grown..come visit the blog whenever u have the time, will b transplating them soon into pots