Welcome to another edition of T stands for Tuesday. Come with me for a little walk around the yard today. You won’t believe how huge the tomatoes are!! FYI…picture heavy post
We’ll start were we left off last week. The former playset.
The sand box has been removed and all that’s left are some bare spots in need of a load of dirt and grass seed.
I got a little carried away with flowers this year but I’m really enjoying them.
Of course many of them are perennials which suits me perfectly.
Here’s one of the crazy horseradish plants along with some tiny cucumber plants. Only one survived the transplant to out doors after our strange spring. I just replanted some seeds. It remains to be seen if they ever get big enough to produce.
Here’s the same deck box garden from a different angle. Those are my yellow pear tomatoes.
Remember where they started this year??
Hey look…there’s the playset in the background.
And we can’t forget the obligatory beverage for T stands for Tuesday. Ice water for the humid afternoon we had while taking these photos. Heavy rain early in the day gave way to a sticky afternoon.
Continuing my backward progression around the house we come to this sad bucket of dirt.
There are seeds in there…I set it in the sun hoping they’d germinate. If not I’ll throw something else in there…perhaps some daisy seeds for a splash of texture and color.
The big garden or shed garden or perhaps deer feeding station.
Some things are doing wonderful like my peppers and a rouge carrot. My beans not so much. I’ve replanted seeds twice now after only a handful came up.
The herbs I transplanted from a Trader Joe’s herb pot are getting really big. Behind them is the other horseradish plant we inherited.
I have beef steak tomatoes in this garden…nice thick stems and blossoms. Hooray!
One of my Egyptian Walking Onions is starting to look real interesting. I inherited these with the horseradish.
Not surprisingly the clover is looking fantastic. *grin*
I picked up these great hanging pots at Walgreen’s of all places. I couldn’t pass them up for the price.
The front walk pots aren’t looking the best this year. I was a little late in planting them.
I do really like these ones though. I picked up with watering can half filled with dirt at a garage sale this spring for $2. It’s a nice edition to my eclectic bunch.
It wouldn’t be Tuesday without a full to-do list for me. I’ll be around to visit my T companions at some point…have patience.
What are you doing today?
Lovely to see everything blooming and looking so healthy for you Halle!
Nature is so amazing when you think of a seed turning into a tomato in that much time really. You do great with your seeds.
I have a ‘thing’ for old watering cans…yours makes a great planter.
Happy T Day from HOT and HUMID Virginia…it’s been like a sauna here too.
oxo
Wow, the gardens and yard look fantastic. I should do a similar post. I really like the veggies you are growing. I bought ONE roma tomato plant and it died not long after I put it in the ground. I’ll never shop at Home Depot for veggies again. Very expensive.
Like Patty, I also like watering cans. How awesome that you scored one that was planter ready.
I’ll be working on my SOC entry today, because I was out early and watered, took out the trash, and cleaned the two sandboxes. The first and last ones (watering and scooping) are a daily ritual, though.
Had to laugh when you showed the playset. Gracie has her own playset. Bet she’s not outgrown HERS!
Thanks for sharing your garden tour with us for T this Tuesday. Drink lots of water, because if it’s like it is here, it’s going to get hot and sticky today.
Thank you for sharing your lovely garden! I have never had one, being hopelessly allergic to grass and generally happy with my flat (where I have been for almost 25 years now). But I so enjoy to visit other people´s gardens, and public ones too.
Happy T-Day!
Your gorgeous tomato plants are making me hungry :) Thanks so much for sharing your garden; I enjoyed the tour. My patio is a much smaller space than your yard, but I still have trouble resisting the flowers. Perennials for the win! Happy T Tuesday :)
wow Darla-it is all looking so lush and beautiful!! Obviously you have a green thumb unlike me who can’t grow a thing. Thank goodness my neighbors have a great vegetable garden that we share:) Happy T day!
sorry- I meant Halle-just visited Darla:)
It’s great to see more of your gardening. It must keep you really busy! Thanks for sharing all those photos.
Last summer we visited the old Excelsior library before it closed, but we haven’t visited the new one yet. I plan to take a day to just bum around Excelsior at some point; it’s pretty much the perfect summer destination.
Happy T Day! :)
Enjoyed the tour of your pretty garden. We’ve never grown horseradish, it looks like a big plant.
Darla
Love all of your flowers, veggies and herbs. My beans didn’t do well this year either. My climbing Chinese beans are slow to grow and the bush green beans did not come up at all. I think it was just too wet and cool this spring. Hoping to get some planted again this week. I love all of your pots and the potted watering can :) I love to plant in different things too. I have an old wringer washer that I want to plant in …next year possibl since it’s so late this year already .
Today? I am trying to make it around to visit everybody from the group this week–LOL! On a break from purging. :) I loved the trip around your yard. Everything looks wonderful to me. Happy T-Day! :)
Enjoyed the trip around your yard this week. I am getting tomatoes, a few at a time so far. The weather cooled down to double digits and that has helped in the watering department. I didn’t plant Beefsteaks this year, which I kind of regret now, but now I can’t remember what kind I planted…….LOL For me, there is nothing better than a fresh, home grown tomato.
Thanks for visiting T-day. The girls are cousins, but only a week apart. I don’t know who is enjoying this summer with them the most……them or me!!
Beautiful garden! Ice water is the perfect beverage for hot and muggy. Your post reminds me of a song, “Money can’t buy you love or homegrown tomatoes”.
Sorry I am so late in visiting this week. Everything looks so lush and green and I enjoyed the tour around your yard. I only just heard of Egyptian Walking Onions–don’t think I have ever seen them before at all–so I will be interested to know how they grow and whether you like them or not.
Aaahhh i’m a little envious of your flower planting….. with the move there wasn’t any gardening happening this year…lol and now with all the deer… there may still not be much planting going on…. I don’t like the idea of having to make it look like Ft. Knox to be able to have a garden…. I’d rather have the deer me thinks…:) Happy Tday!!….belated…oops… Hugs! deb
Your garden does look fabulous! For deer we substitute ducks – we thought it was rabbits eating everything that was supposed to be hated by rabbits but then we saw the greedy ducks!! I’m missing our garden at the minute – 3 weeks in France and now commitments are keeping us here until the middle of next week!!! Love your watering can planter! A very belated Happy T day! Chrisx
Your garden is getting beautiful each day!Love to see everything blooming. It’s Winter here. Soon everything will florish again.Sorry for the belated T day!