About the Artist Family Garden..Pets...and Cooking Fiascos!


Here are last year's vegetable beds...

Mr. Squirrel, do you have reservations?

With last year's harvest, I tried more carrot recipes than one would think possible - carrot breads, carrot muffins, carrot quiche, carrot souffle, carrot juice - even carrot and lentil curry! I did not make ANY corn dishes, solely because the gopher got to eat ALL THE CORN! I did steal one premature ear of corn just as he was pulling it down the hole! The horseshoe shown below is the horseshoe we found in the garden - apparently it was lucky for the gopher!

-And here are the beds as they exist today - including two new raised beds! The large green plants you see are celery, waiting to be harvested - YUM! Such fun, such anticipation :)

There will be grapes and corn in the narrow bed closest to us; cheery sunflowers in the backside of the longest bed with all sorts of peppers, carrots, spinach, kale, swiss chard, and tomotoes in the long bed (still choosing tomato varieties - I better hurry!); the continuation of celery and artichoke, as well as zuccini, eggplant, and a few other things in the middle bed; and at the bed at the far end will be berries, berries and more berries - blackberries, raspberries, blueberries, and strawberries! YUM!

Lest you think we are only planting veggies and berries, we have some young fruit trees too, for which we have big dreams:

The above is a loquat tree we planted from seed. It should bear fruit by the time I'm 80!

Here is photo of one of our young trees we planted our big Leonberger decided it was a chewtoy, so that was the end of that - but we keep it in the ground, just in case it revives....

So now we keep our trees in cages, to protect them!

-and our most unusal crop :)