Here are two herbs from our cut-your-own herb garden, anise hyssop and thyme.
Entries Tagged as 'Crops'
Farm Blossom Series: Set #8 Cut Flowers, Phlox, Rudbeckia, Yarrow
July 27th, 2009 Comments Off
I’m falling behind on posting flower photos. Here are several flowers from our cut flower garden.
Tags: blossom · cut flowers · flower
Farm Blossom Series: Set #7, Tomatillo, Cucumber, Vitamin Green, and Zucchini
June 24th, 2009 Comments Off
As we move into summer, I’m finding more and more blossoms in my quest to photograph the blossoms of each of our crops at the farm. In this seventh set, the flowers are all yellow.
Tags: blossom · cucumber · flower · greens · summer squash · vitamin green · zucchini
Farm Blossom Series: Set #6, Cut Flowers; Jupiter’s Beard, Coreopsis and Delphinium.
June 24th, 2009 Comments Off
Some of the flowers from our cut flower garden are coming into bloom. Most of our annual cut flowers don’t bloom until late July, although I just noticed a few dwarf sunflowers are just starting to bloom already. These three perannial plants get an earlier start.
Tags: coreopsis · cut flowers · delphinium · flower garden · Jupiter's Beard
Farm Blossom Series: Set #5, The Drabs: Lovage, Sorrel
June 18th, 2009 Comments Off
Here are two plants that produce large masses of otherwise inconspicuous, drab flowers. One has to look closely at both lovage and sorrel to see if you are looking at the new flowers or at seed heads forming. Pretty or not, they get the job done.
Farm Blossom Series: Set #4, Herbs: Catnip and Chamomile
June 17th, 2009 Comments Off
I’ve taken a number of blossom photos in the last couple of weeks, but haven’t made the time to post them all. I decided to separate the photos into groups. Here are two herbs, catnip and chamomile. The thyme is also in bloom but I don’t yet have a photo.
Farm Blossom Series: Set #3, Peas, Raspberries, Thornless Blackberries, Tomatoes, Black Locust
June 1st, 2009 Comments Off
This is my third set of blossom photos. Three weeks ago I set a goal to photograph the blossoms of each of our flowering crops this year. The flowers will be coming faster and faster now as we enter summer.
Of course, we usually never see the flowers of a number of crops that we eat before [...]
Tags: Black Locust · blossoms · flowers · peas · raspberries · thornless blackberries · tomatoes
Farm Blossom Series: Set #2, Chives.
May 20th, 2009 Comments Off
Just one blossom photo this week. Try the chive flower petals on a salad.
What potatoes and raspberries have in common.
May 20th, 2009 Comments Off
It has been several weeks since I wrote a general farm update. Since then we’ve planted, weeded, given our spring school tours, harvested our first crops, started our vegetable starts sales, opened the farmstand, welcomed our first Farm Tots, and signed up more Free Choice CSA members. We’ve been very busy, and pretty much stayed on [...]
Tags: beets · bok choi · carrots · chives · compost · essential oil · Farm Tots · farmstand · frisee · kohlrabi · lettuce · lovage · mint · mustard greens · onions · oregano · peas · plant starts · planting · potatoes · sage · salad turnips · sorrel · summer squash · sweet corn · tarragon · tomatoes
Farm Blossom Series: Set #1, Blueberries and Apples.
May 10th, 2009 Comments Off
These are the first of a series of flower photos taken at the farm. I took these on Friday, May 8.
Friday was the first day I noticed that the blueberries had started blooming. The flowers are fairly inconspicious, a bit smaller in size than a pea. You have to get close to the plants to tell [...]
Tags: apples · blossoms · blueberries · flowers · photos