Photos of My Port Townsend » In the Garden http://myporttownsend.com My Port Townsend - A City in Photographs Tue, 22 May 2012 08:25:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Community Garden http://myporttownsend.com/in-the-garden/community-garden/ http://myporttownsend.com/in-the-garden/community-garden/#comments Mon, 14 May 2012 08:32:05 +0000 michael http://myporttownsend.com/?p=4720 photo of Fran's Field Community Garden in Port Townsend

The garden is in

Well, most of our community garden is in. Planting has to be staggered because we’ve not had much warm weather and because different plants have different growing periods.

Community gardens are a big movement in the Port Townsend area. I think there are about two dozen. These are not pea patches, where each person has a plot to plant. Rather, we share in the planting and harvesting of everything. It’s a great community building type of project and it yields fresh produce. Not a bad extra benefit.

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Past it's sell by date

I’ve been watching the tulips as they start to whither. I haven’t really payed a lot of attention to this part of the cycle before. Even though the flowers are way past fresh, they still have an odd beauty.

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Spicy buds

I know that I’ve posted chive flowers before. I probably will again. Even though they are not considered beautiful blossoms, I do love them. They taste good, too.

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Whoa! A little closer than I thought.

This little guy has full brakes on. He’s is a male Rufous hummingbird.

 

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Awaiting warm garden beds

Here’s K’s greenhouse filled with veggie starts ready to go into the ground. Since it’s been wet and cold around Port Townsend, the soil temperature is still a little low for planting.

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It's not just a metaphor!

We picked up this rock while hiking in Utah. It weighs maybe 8-10 pounds. After lugging it all the way back to our rental house, then driving it back from St. George, Utah to Port Townsend, I had to fit it into a photo somehow.

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It's so inviting outside

I shouldn’t complain. The weekend was lovely, with warmish, mostly sunny days. I got some good gardening done and walked on the beach. Actually, this is the way it’s supposed to be, nice on the weekends and rainy during the week. The sky around Port Townsend followed the plot.

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