Boscobel Rose
Bouquet of Roses
Gertrude Jekyll
Climbing Royal Sunset
Abraham Darby
Jude The Obscure
Abraham Darby
Climbing Royal Sunset
John Paul ll
I've been busy watering and deadheading the roses
in the garden.
We had such a wet spring that we have a lot of black spot on the roses.
I pick off the spotted leaves which is a lot of work.
Roses are high maintenance!
They are my favourite flower.
Our weather has warmed up nicely and we are enjoying the sunshine.
My husband has been busy starting veggies from seed and potting out the plants.
He's growing 5 zucchini plants
which means that we will be inundated with a bumper crop!
We will harvest these when they are small and tender.
Inside the greenhouse we are growing peppers and lettuce and cherry tomatoes.
Out in the raised beds there are English Peas, broad beans, radicchio, and turnips.
Pots of tomatoes are lined up beside the greenhouse...
once they are ready for picking
I'll be roasting them in olive oil and garlic for the freezer.
They add such a lot of flavour to the homemade pasta sauces we enjoy throughout the year.
Have you planted a veggie garden this year?
With the cost of food rising so quickly
it makes sense that we add a few plants in our home gardens.
Are you a gardener?
Have you noticed the spike in food prices?
Apparently it is the highest surge since the 1970's
Thank you for stopping by The Humble Bungalow Blog.
~ Be Well and Be Kind ~
14 comments:
So much to unpack here, Leslie! First of all and as always, your roses are absolutely beautiful! I love roses as well - they rank up there with my other favorities: peonies (my absolute favorite), heavenly blue morning glories, and lavender. I do have a small vegetable garden in which I have a sage plant, yellow marigolds, chives, a few borage, 3 pepper plants (one of which is a jalepeno), 4 different tomato plants, and some parsley. It's a raised bed. My husband plans to make another "twin" bed next to it - it'll be done next year and then there will be more room for some other plants. Yes! The prices of not only food, but so many things, keeps rising. I notice it very much. Today was my last day on my job - retired at last! I am going back to work next week, though (haha!). I'm going to work temporarily, over the summer, for my same school district - working with the district registrar on enrollments. She needs extra help in the summer and I'm willing. I can't seem to comment like I used to here, so I'm commenting under Anonymous.
- Jeannine
Beautiful roses! And your tomatoes - It sounds like a great idea to be able to enjoy them all year round. How do you roast them with olive oil and garlic? I freeze my less than eating quality tomatoes then make them into sauce. Roasting them sounds so much better.
Sounds just wonderful, and love your roses....I can almost inhale their fragrance from here. In Ottawa, we have a shorter gardening season, so we plant the short-season varieties such as Black Cherry, Black Prince, Black Krim etc. They have a very complex, sweet/mineral flavour that my grandchildren adore. In addition, they grow well on a balcony, especially the cherry tomatoes. We also have a small raised herb garden, using a "City Farmer" elevated garden, which is perfect for wheelchair or standing access. We are also experimenting this year with the new mobile containers which have a water reservoir and little wheels underneath. The reservoir can easily be filled up by putting it outside before a big rainstorm, then putting the plants on top afterwards. Hope this experiment works!
Congratulations on your retirement! Hope that you will relax and take things easy for the summer even though you are helping out with the school district! The fall will be a gift to you when you don't need to get up at dawn to get ready for work! I do hope that you have some lovely things planned for your days and years ahead!
I put the tomatoes in a roasting pan drizzle them with olive oil and garlic (we love it!) and then roast them at 425 degrees until they have browned and softened. If they are large tomatoes I quarter them, the cherry tomatoes are left whole. Then they cool on the countertop and I pack them into ziploc freezer bags ready for fall and winter sauces and soups.
City Farmer sounds like a great idea, I hope it extends your growing season and has room for your desired plants and veggies. Home grown tomatoes are really well worth the time and effort...the smell of them when freshly harvested is amazing! Such intense flavour too! Our grandchildren love eating them freshly picked :-))
What fabulous roses you grow - I particularly like the John Paul II rose, and will look for it at our local nursery. Beautiful and fluffy! We have not had much luck growing vegetables, as our garden it not designed for it and the climate is harsh. However, we have produced a few lemons and have high hopes for the olive tree.
Beautiful roses, especially the Abraham Darby. Such rich colour. We have a Boscobel, too, and love its warm shades of pink. We do have a vegetable garden, but will be away for some time, so I've not invested a lot into it this year. We've enjoyed lettuce, radishes, spinach, arugula, strawberries and raspberries so far. Soon the blueberries will ripen.
Your roses are beautiful! I've always loved your selections and was so happy when I discovered some of yours are David Austin's. I went a little crazy with his catalog and ordered and planted a dozen. They are thriving despite the heat in North Texas this summer.
The John Paul ll is such a pure white rose...very frothy with curled petals. Oh I would love to grow lemons! We do have an olive tree but it is just a small one and we are not sure if it will grow olives or not! I do like the silver foliage. We've been very fortunate with our veggies so far...harvesting lettuce, radishes, zucchini, asparagus, and english peas.
Hope you are keeping well Patricia.
Our weather has improved a lot and the roses and veggies look much better! You've got a lot more fruit and berries in your garden than we do. If we had spare beds I would be tempted to grow blueberries! Hope you have a lovely summer Lorrie! Enjoy your boat.
Such a rewarding hobby growing David Austin Roses! I fell down a rabbit hole while perusing the David Austin catalogs!!! I try to buy a couple every year BUT we are seriously running out of space...the fragrance in the yard is sublime. I can only imagine how much fun you are having :-))
It is possible to grow Meyer Lemons in pots - mine were bought at the florist by a dear friend - and then place them outside in the clement weather (May to September in Ottawa). The rest of the year, they sit under LED lights in the laundry room - the only place we have space for them in our condo! However, although they are only 18 -24" tall, they yield almost full-size lemons, and we have already harvested a dozen of them. The flowers are so fragrant - like a breath of springtime - and they magically transform the dull cloudy Ottawa winters into a sunnier climate. I'm thinking of the movie Enchanted April!
I should have made it clearer that the short-season varieties referred to tomatoes, not roses! We can grow any of the zone 5 David Austin roses (=zone 4 in the US website), and I've enjoyed Sharifa Asma for its amazing perfume (harder to get now), as well as Golden Celebration (rated as zone 6 Canadian) but it did very well in a protected microclimate, so it just squeaked by!
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