Garden Update August 2020

Garden Update August 2020.

Garden Update August 2020

Hi Everyone, it’s time to do a garden update on our kitchen garden for this month of August 2020.

Chive flowers (in white)

I took these photos at the very last weekend in August.

Our watermelon patch

Our last garden update: Garden Update July 2020

The new paver block wall we built last weekend around the last garden bed – finally, all but one garden bed has a border – special thanks to my husband, Eric for helping me with this, it was cool to work together to make this little wall

flowers and herbs

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chives and the 2 raised garden beds

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photo from the side of the garden, everything is growing so lush

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a fence line border at the woods edge

joe pyeweed – the butterflies love this flower! This grows outside our garden

We have been playing in the garden all Summer.

Zinnia bud

young Zinnia bloom

purslane, a weed that I let grow because it’s edible

Shells from our beach vacations over the years, I use the shells to line a border of one of the flower/herb beds

Echinacea and Black Eyed Susan flowers

shells

Thyme

The garden – a long view

The Chrysanthemums are already blooming, these are from last year and they grew back

The Chrysanthemums

mint bed, it’s plentiful as usual!

mint flowers

Russian Sage

Chrysanthemums

mint

tomatoes

Basil – it’s doing well this year

I’ve been making lots of Basil Pesto this year

I like how there are so many different, interesting elements in the garden, you can kinda just wander in there. We didn’t build it all at once so it doesn’t all look the same – and it just works!

I would love to add some more wood chips to the walk ways, now that the garden beds are more defined with borders.

The garden has been such a saving grace during this pandemic.

This year I have been spending so much more time in there, pulling weeds, planning ahead or just sitting and watching the plants grow.

I can’t believe September is almost here and Fall is just around the corner! I have some ideas for Autumn garden cleanup and organizing before next season.

Thank you for reading and following along!

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Sara is an architectural designer turned work-at-home Mom. She lives in New Jersey by way of New England and New York, with her husband and 3 kids under 6. She loves design, being creative and spending time with family and friends. She loves checking out local businesses and eats and being apart of the local farm to table community.

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