Despite a growing season cut short by a late start to summer and September wildfire smoke, 2020 proved successful for an expanding garden. A new pathway planted with native species offered a variety of seasonal interests that will grow in over the next few years. Fruit trees planted three years ago are now becoming productive.
With several new selections, this year’s harvest included:
Two dozen zucchinis
Ten pints of span peas
Four dozen yellow onions of varied sizes
Several cloves of garlic
Half a dozen fennel bulbs
Several dozen jalapeno peppers
Seven dozen tomatoes, but about half of the usual harvest
Twelve pumpkins
Three butternut squashes
Plentiful lettuces
One dozen Asian pears
Three dozen apples
A few blueberries
Several pints of raspberries
Bountiful flowers
Asian pear buds in February
Yellow flower buds on newly-planted Oregon Grape
Spring snow coats flowering Pieris
Spring snow on lilac buds
The garden in March with a light dusting of snow
A dusting of snow blends into abundant white flowers on evergreen candytuft groundcover.
Squirrel in a birdbath
Sun-soaked blue-flowering groundcover
Apple blossoms
Camas buds
Red and white striped columbine flowers
A large peony bud
Flowering cotoneaster and lupine leaves
Peony flower
Raindrop-dotted rose
The garden in May is surrounded by fields of lilies and daisies.
Jalapeno peppers, yellow onions, fennel, and snap peas grow in rows in a productive garden bed.
Bright flowering poppy
Flowering hedge of roses
A three-foot-tall lupine flower
Orange lily
Ripe cherries
A Lady Fern, Oregon Grape, and iris flower soften a concrete wall.
White flowers form on a privet hedge.
Field of orange lily flowers
Abundant snap peas hang over the wall of a garden bed.
Bunch of ripe cherries
Zigzagging branches full of ripe cherries
Ripe Oregon Grapes
Black lilies
Pumpkin leaves and flowers
Lettuce, fennel, onions, and peas grow in a productive garden bed.
Mass plantings of orange lilies and white daisies.
Snap peas
Pumpkin flowers
Zucchinis
Pink lily and roses
Zucchini
Pumpkin leaves and flowers
Red-leaf lettuce
Blueberries
Asian pear in front of a white picket fence
Yellow delicious apples
Arbutus “Marina” strawberries
Ripe Oregon Grapes
Flowering lavender
Roses
Lilies and daisies
A pumpkin forms
Pumpkin bud
A dense patch of onions
Onions
Asian pear
A harvest of lettuce, zucchinis, onions, garlic, and shallots
Daisies
Blue hydrangeas
Tomatoes ripen
Harvest of onions, shallots, and potatoes
Green tomatoes
Sunset sunflower
Flowering fennel
Sunflower
A tall pumpkin turns color
Green tomatoes
Green tomatoes
Sedum begins to flower
Green tomatoes
Green tomatoes
Flowering fennel
A redder “sunset” sunflower
Green tomatoes
Ripening onion patch
A pumpkin turns orange
Blackberry pie
A squirrel harvests sunflower seeds
Flowering fennel in wildfire smoke
Ripe tomatoes in wildfire smoke
Ripening tomatoes in wildfire smoke
Sunflowers and fennel in wildfire smoke
Ripe raspberries in wildfire smoke
A small and very large pumpkin grows amongst the lily leaves
Sunflower and flowering fennel in wildfire smoke
A late green pumpkin
Butternut squash flower
The first pumpkin harvest
First harvest of pumpkins
Pumpkin harvest
Flowering sedum
Yellow delicious apples
The first harvest of pumpkins
Asian pears
Ripening tomatoes in wildfire smoke
Jalapenos
Ripening tomatoes
Harvest of Willamette, Stupice, Legend, and Dr. Wychee’s Yellow Tomatoes
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