Lavender blossom
Speckled lettuce
Peach babies
Pear baby
Sugar pod peas
Chive blossom
Lettuce, garlic, marigold
Straw bale garden
Team What the Ducks! also grows: ornamental corn, sunflower, tomatoes, potatoes, all kinds of allium, many herbs, carrot, eggplant, several members of the cabbage family, pumpkin, chard, beans and more beans.
Send me your lists! Include town or country so we can see the diversity. Thanks in advance!!!
Copyright 2014, Lori Fontanes
What the Ducks! 
Beautiful!
Thanks!!! And some of it is quite tasty! 😉
Sorry, my current garden is one gerbera daisy. I used to grow a wide assortment of veggies and had a dwarf fruit tree orchard as well with apple, pears, and peaches.
Daisies are lovely! PS, I thought someone who appreciated nature as much as you clearly do might have been a food-growing person! 🙂
Love the lavender! No garden here, nor there! Miss one.
Lavender is tough in NY–as I was warned and as I’ve experienced. It’s a little too hot and sticky, I think. Certainly not like the South of France or anything! Here’s hoping you can get a little kitchen garden–or a pot of lavender–at some future date!!!
I had heard of the urban straw bale gardens. What a wonderful idea! 🙂
Saw a story on this a while back in the NY Times. Tried it last year and really loved the concept. The ducks love ’em, too!
First of all, what beautiful photos. Also, I’m impressed by people who can grown carrots successfully.
Thank you for the compliments but the carrots do whatever they want to–first year I had beginner’s luck, I guess (and I used a Chantenay variety–shorter, work well in our planters). They were delicious! Last year, I waited too late, alas. They were growing well and then it started, um, snowing. 😉
LOL, I guess you got busy. This year I’m STILL trying for potatoes. I went around getting old tires from car places, stacked them filled them and had terrible potatoes and beetles every time. This year I’m trying a normal bed and I’m out there every day hunting beetles and killing them between my fingers–gross, but it has to be done. 🙂
Yeah, I’m not a fan of the tires thang. I worry too much about what might leach out…!!! Glad to hear you have moved on but it sounds like you have already made your plan for the season. *Next* year, how about Smart Bags? I love them for potatoes because they’re very easy, made in US, reusable, etc. Also, I get organic seed potato from Wood Prairie (in Maine). They’re fabulous. This will be my third year with this method. Good luck with your taters!!!
Thanks for the tips! Yeah, my husband kept mentioning the tires leeching stuff, but it was when we had no real garden to speak of and I let myself feel desperate. Now we have a pile of used tires waaay in the back field to keep the eyesore at a distance, 🙂
we grow the same things-, remember “great minds think a like”-lol:-) lovely…have not been near my computer much the past few weeks-garden is a calling:-)
We grow the same things but *your* garden looks so much bigger & fuller!!! I wanna grow like u grow! 🙂
The garden is off to a very slow start. Doesn’t help with a late winter storm (Mother’s Day) and late freezes on successive nights after said late winter storm.
What the garden grows: corn, zucchini, green beans (bush), and butternut squash (aka Japanese pumpkin squash). A bit too late to start the tomato seeds, perhaps next year.
In the flower department: cosmos and trying out one of those “roll of flowers” (butterfly and hummingbird friendly). If the roll works out well, much more will be laid next summer.
The may be list (has to be on clearance): lavender – works well in poor soil which we have plenty of, low growing conifers that doesn’t become a towering pine (don’t want my own forest) or that much maintenance, and may be a couple more rose bushes.
Winter! Let’s not use that word for a couple of months again!!! Thanks for sharing your delicious list! 🙂