I am thankful for Uncle Billy's Garden.
I love gardens. Vegetable, flower, tree, shrub, formal, informal. I like them all. Yesterday, I had a pleasant time visiting one when Ward and I visited Uncle Billy's and Aunt Martha's garden. Aunt Martha invited us to pick some of their bumper strawberry crop, a very lucky thing for us. While Ward picked strawberries, I took a look at other things that are growing in their garden right now. Here are pictures of a few of them.
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| Uncle Billy has raised beds for many of the things he grows. This is a new location for the strawberries this year and apparently they like it. |
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| The broccoli is doing well and hasn't been besieged by worms yet. Aunt Martha will be freezing some today. The cauliflower (no pictures) is happy, too. |
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The potatoes are blooming. To the right of them, Uncle Billy has planted corn.
Notice the high deer fence in the background. It seems to be working. |
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| Besides strawberries, we also picked lettuce. Aunt Martha plants a variety pack of seeds each year that makes a very pretty bed. There are onions planted behind the lettuce. |
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| Along the back fence, they grow hops for their sons to use in beer brewing. |
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| The raspberries have just started to get a couple of small green berries. There are also blueberries and figs growing in other beds. |
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| The watermelon and cantaloupe have just sprouted. Uncle Billy has black plastic around them because those crops like heat. |
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| The tomato plants are looking big for this time of year. |
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| Red clover was Uncle Billy's cover crop. |
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| Ward and Uncle Billy hard at work. I'm a little embarrassed to say that I may have done more eating of strawberries than just picking them. :) |
So for Uncle Billy's garden that he and Aunt Martha shared with us,
I am thankful.
