Some Summer Gardens Photos

Things get so busy in the summer I even forget to take photos. Bryce is usually away flying, so he frequently sends me reminders to take a picture and remind him of what home looks like... things certainly grow quickly!

Merritt and Ocean with the giant sunflowers.

Some produce and goodies heading out for delivery to another family home in Port Hardy.

Training the pear trees in the orchard to spread out their branches for greater fruit production.

Orchard trees growing, irrigation all set up.

The corn didn't do as well as I would have hoped this year, but they still produced delicious cobs!

The raspberries were amazing this year, we could barely keep up to picking them.

Even though the slugs had a feed, the brassica crops were still productive.

Root crops.

So many strawberries! So delicious!!!

Another photo of the CSA boxes delivered weekly to clients in Port Hardy.

Greenhouse up and running. The tomatoes did excellent this year, we should have lots to dehydrate and make salsa or stewed veggies.

Salmonberries are always a favourite during the early summer.

We cleared this area in April and was able to have a very productive squash/pumpkin patch by August/September.

I love how a small seed can produce such massive fruit!

Every year I try a different method of trellising the peas... this year I thought I had it right... wrong! The Alderman shelling peas grow so tall and so productive, they bend the fences right over.

Root crops (onions, carrots, beets, kohlrabi, parsnip, turnip) all did really well this year.

Garlic harvest out to cure.