June garden updates from Albany, NY

[rebeccmeister]

(updated and cross-posted from my blog)

My newest mulch pile:


I only recently got a wood chipper, and I am so happy to be able to mulch small branches at home now!

Lovely little flowers on the French lavender:



I have a dahlia I call the Dark Dahlia, which is behind the lavender, under some rhubarb leaves, just starting to come up. This is most exciting because I wasn't sure if I got it out of the ground in time last fall/winter.

The wine barrel tomato plants are getting much bigger, and have some flowers going:


Some of the ripe strawberries (while walking my cat Martha):


Yummy strawberry-arugula salad! Needed more strawberries. Next time.

Comments

[rebeccmeister]

Also note that this one only accepts wood pieces up to 1.5" in diameter...at the moment I'm just accumulating larger stuff. I might turn the bigger stuff over to the city for pickup, since the city has the industrial-size mulchers for their industrial-scale operation.