Actually, it has been a pretty long time since this site was last updated.  The garden and its visitors had been one of the major inspirations and 2015 was not a great year for the garden.  The weird weather and the drought impacted things.  I was stingy with the watering and did not get the fertilizer out soon enough.  A gopher found a way to get into a couple of the raised beds and wiped out a couple crops.  Only one tomato plant was reasonably productive.  On the other hand, we had plenty of corn, zucchini, green beans and blackberries.

So far 2016 is shaping up to be different.  There was some cold weather early in the winter to provide chill for the fruit trees.  And there has been rain.  More would be nice.

Our current garden does not have much in the way of cutting flowers. The nasturtiums and marigolds tucked in around the veggies have short stems. However, on occasion, the modest blooms of some of the herbs can make a respectable bouquet. In this case, the daisy like flowers are from feverfew. A couple sprigs of lemon verbena provide tall spikes.  The umbrella clusters of yellow flowers are fennel.

The tomatoes started ripening around Labor Day weekend due to a late start, the usual cool summers here and lack of fertilizers. And then the winds came and the cages and plants started falling over.

Some of the earlier corn plantings did not work out, but the later two did fairly well. While last year almost every ear had a worm in it, there were none to be found this year. Plus more of the ears filled out well.