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Tour of My Kitchen Garden

7/14/2020

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I hope your gardens are growing well. It’s the height of the season and that sweet time of year. I thought I'd take this opportunity to give you a little glimpse of my kitchen garden. As you’ll see from the video below, my kitchen garden is chugging along. I’m harvesting kale, lettuce, chard, peas, kohlrabi, garlic scapes and broccoli right now and my first ripe tomatoes and beets will be coming out of the greenhouse very soon! 

I absolutely love this part of the growing season. The frenzy of the planting season is over and the garden starts to grow itself. My mornings are usually spent wandering the garden, doing a little weeding, a little foraging, sometimes watering, and obviously harvesting. It has become a refuge for me during these uncertain and tumultuous times. The constant birdsong, the bees buzzing, and the butterflies and dragonflies flitting about the garden bring me back to the present moment and remind me that natural systems are always here to support us.

Before diving into the video, check out this overhead shot of the kitchen garden. What a difference two months can make! 

As always, let me know if you have any questions in the comments below! 

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8 Comments
Joe Clark link
7/15/2020 09:13:05 am

Looks like someone got a drone.
Thanks for all that you do.

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Kareen
7/16/2020 05:42:23 pm

My husband has had it for awhile but this is the first time we've used it for the kitchen garden. Fun to see the gardens from above! Hope you've been well!

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Laura Holm
7/15/2020 08:24:05 pm

Thank you so much! Your garden is fabulous ❤️I didn’t know that about the rocks, and the polyculture, and the water ! Keep up the good fight:)

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Kareen
7/16/2020 05:43:01 pm

You're welcome, Laura, thanks so much for watching. Glad you learned something new!

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Ellen
7/16/2020 11:16:46 pm

Thanks for this tour, it's so inspiring! I just moved into zone 4b (in Alaska), so I am taking notes for next year. I am growing many of the same plants, and while they are often in similar combinations in single beds, they aren't truly interplanted, so I will be more bold about that in the future. I will also be letting things go to seed much more!

I don't know if Montana is like Alaska, but here mosquitoes can sometimes get in the way of us wanting to spend time in the garden. Is the vigorous bubbling in your pond an anti-mosquito device? How do you keep your small herb spiral pond from breeding too many?

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Kareen Erbe
7/18/2020 01:20:37 pm

Hi Ellen,
Thanks for watching the video and I'm glad you're inspired! As to your question - yes, the bubbler is both an oxygenator for the water and an anti-mosquito strategy. We don't get that many mosquitoes here since we're a fairly dry climate, though. The small pond doesn't seem to be much of an issue since it's mostly taken up by pond plants. If you are prone to mosquitoes then smaller water features might be a better idea. Hope that helps or let me know if you have other questions!

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CARLA PYLE link
7/19/2020 05:31:10 pm

Beautiful & inspiring, Kareen - love the aerial view! I haven't had luck with orach for some reason, but will keep trying!

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Kareen Erbe
7/20/2020 09:32:34 am

Thanks for watching Carla. Yes, do keep trying with the orach. Let me know if you ever want to come and dig up any plants early in the season! Hope to see you soon!

Kareen

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