Jan 1, 2015 at the Garden

It doesn't look like we have much growing until you look at
all the individual beds.
 

While I was up at the garden on New Year's Day to remove my frost cover, I thought I'd take a few pictures. Considering it is the middle of winter (for the Georgia) we still have a lot of vegetables growing. 

Unfortunately, we still have plenty of time for it to get too cold. Amazingly enough, we even still have lettuce growing!

One bed still has green pea plants on January 1st of all things. However it has been so cold  they are just surviving, not producing.  It will be interesting to see if they make it until spring and then start producing peas.

Pea Plants!
 

 

Vicki - Bed 41

End of May

Just to give us some hope that winter will go away, here are a couple of pictures from May 30th, 2013 at the garden. Now true, it was a WARM winter last year so everything started growing faster. But soon, we'll see similar sights at the garden.

We might even be wishing it for it to be cooler too!

"Stitches" of Green Meadows Preserve

The above three photos are of the Green Meadows Preserve House, Garden and Orchard taken in February, March and September of 2013.  Standing in the same spot, 6 images are 'stitched' together to make each photograph using a wide angle lens, a tripod with both bubble levels level, a remote shutter release, and f16.  (Except I think I forgot the f16 part today and used an f11 for the bottom photo because it's not as crisp.  Whatever . . . that's a lot to remember from six months ago.)  All that's needed are 'stitches' of the leaves turning (Nov.) and snow (Jan. 7th - that's my prediction for the first snow of 2014.)  I wonder if it's possible to do a photo with a full moon lighting the landscape.?.  If you see me out there one night, honk!

What a Difference a Year Can Make!

I had an occasion yesterday to take a few pictures of the garden.  Several turned out worthy of saving. When I printed one of them out and placed it in a folder that I keep, I couldn't help but notice that it was a similar shot to one I took just one year ago.   I thought some of you might want to see the comparison of what our garden looked like just one year ago in June of 2012 and what it looks like now.  Amazing.

Green Meadows CG  June 27, 2013

This second photo was taken early in the morning so I didn't have the advantage of the morning sunlight that is lighting up the first photo.  In the first photo the first section of 24 beds had just been finished at the end of April and most of the raised beds were planted in May so the vegetables were just starting to gain some size.  This year our beds were planted in March and early April.