Mavis Butterfield | Backyard Garden Plot Pictures 9/13/15

Here we are the middle of September and our backyard garden is still alive and kickin’. I know many of you are done growing tomatoes for the year but by some miracle, ours are stilling hanging in there. We have a third crop of beans getting ready to set flowers in the garden boxes as well as beets, carrots and potatoes growing.

I am hoping to harvest the beets, carrots and potatoes around Thanksgiving time and I’ve got more carrots and beets growing in the front yard with hopes of a winter harvest.

We are just starting to pick our second planting of green beans.

And the grass seed we planted last week is starting to come in and cover the bare patches in the lawn. We are suppose to get some rain this week so I think I’ll toss another round of seed down. 

The small side garden along the patio is so bare! Lucy and I harvested potatoes earlier in the week and then planted garlic and chive seeds in it’s place. I also transplanted a few rosemary and sage plants as well. I suppose we won’t see any action in this area until spring. 

Lemon… the Meyer lemon tree is doing beautifully. I counted 17 Meyer lemons growing. I’ll be moving her to our covered front porch later this week.

Confession time. I grow rainbow Swiss chard because I think it’s BEAUTIFUL. {Okay, so when The Girl is home she eats it too}.

Not a bad little harvest from our tiny backyard plot.

I think we’ll be having BLT’s for lunch today. 

The container garden is still going strong. I’m hoping that we’ll be able to harvest tomatoes through the beginning of October.

Summer casualty. I guess I’ll be buying a new arborvitae tree this fall. Oh well. It happens.

How is YOUR garden doing these days?

~Mavis

This year’s garden is being sponsored by the awesome folks at Botanical Interests Seed Company. You can check out their website HERE, order their new 2015 Garden Seed Catalog, or see the seeds I’ll be growing in my garden this year HERE.