What a lovely garden! My parents usually tried to keep a vegetable garden when I was still living at home in Mississippi, but between the insects, the rabbits, and the weeds, we could never quite keep it under control. I hope one day i can have my own space and time for a garden as beautiful as your mother’s. Oh, and by the way, i think that cicoria is called chicory in english.

What a beautiful garden!

Cheers,

Rosa

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Mama Cream Puff

Thank you so much for sharing your mom’s garden through photos. It put me in mind of a book I read long ago called The Shell Seekers. The mother planted the most amazing gardens and over the years, it expanded…pure beauty and love.

It IS a beautiful garden! Thanks for sharing. SO much beauty and good veggies and herbs in such a small space! It is inspiring.

Your mom’s garden is just beautiful!! All the plants are so lush and healthy. My garden struggles through poor rocky and clay soil and never manages to look anything like hers. I’m inspired to work harder at improving my soil after seeing how good hers looks!

This is my dream garden! How does she do this? Would you mind terribly elaborating? What did your dad make the raised wall out of? Do you add soil every year? I would be in heaven with a garden and green thumb such as this.

Ivonne, what a beautiful garden you have. Amazing! It’s my dream to have a garden like that some time in the future. Iremember back in Russia my grandparents had a cottage where they grew multiple array of vegetables and fruits. We had about 5-7 types of gooseberries, at least 3 types of currants (black, red and white), I think around 8-10 types of strawberries. There was a green house for various tomatoes and cucumbers. We had vegetable marrow (very uncommon in canada), peppers, potatoes, sweet peas, herbs, apples, sour cherries and many more. Oh, the memories… I still long for the taste of freshly picked herbs for dinner in the summer. Your mom’s garden is amazing. Thanks for sharing!

Your mother’s garden is wonderful!! We just moved into our new home in February so we do not have a garden this year. The previous owners did a lot of landscaping last year but it is not particularly to our tastes so we are currently removing all the red lava rock. Once that is done plants will be moved and raised beds will be constructed.

If you do not mind my asking what did your father make the walls of the raised beds out of? We have used wood in the past but those beds are so lovely!! Right now we have a few herbs in small pots awaiting replanting… At least the lava rock will help make for good drainge in the raised beds!

I love such fresh herbs!

You spelled courgette wrong

The garden looks great, just think of all the inspiration it holds… our garden will be full of courgettes soon. there must be a thousand recipes for them but I’m sticking to two: battered and deep fried and ratatouille Anyone can cook

Wow, your mom’s garden is really impressive! I would love to have a garden, but I don’t even know how to get started on something like that. It must be nice to have fresh produce and herbs from your garden though!

The cicoria … it looks like chicory.

It grows wild in the US, though I’ve never managed a tasty meal from foraged chicory.

I wanted to say thanks for dropping by and leaving the note! I hate to admit it but I haven’t figured out how to respond to comments that folks leave me as of yet…. (A true blogging neophyte which explains why I post so irregularly plus we’ve just been insanely busy!)

ohhh! This post is wonderful. I only dream of having a garden like this!

This was a lovely tribute to your mother and her garden! My dad has a garden as well and he always plants tomatoes and cucumbers. Summer for me means cucumbers and vinegar. I adore it. I hope one day I can have a garden just like his (this requires a backyard though which I currently don’t have). Bravo!

What a gorgeous garden your mom has! I’ve been meaning to start my own little patch of vegetables in our small garden for a while now, but I never seem to be getting around it to actually do something about it. Our garden is on the ‘wild’ side but I have a sunny spot which would be perfect for herbs and a few vegetables… Now if only I could find the time!

Truly beautiful, u cannot get much more organic than that! I’ll be showing my mum these pics when i go over next week, my mum and dad are also true vegetable gardeners. In my parent’s garden this summer, there is quite a few marrow plants, loads of green beans with pretty purple and white flowers, courgettes, aubergines, a whole section of marmande and alicante tomatoes, rhubarb and plenty of coriander and parsley. So i can totally understand how proud you are of your mum! I have a very small container garden and have planted a couple of things but no fruits of labour yet. Maybe i dont have my mum’s greenfingers Thanks for the pics, was missing my parents and that’s really cheered me up! xx

Lovely and both inspiring and educational - we tried a garden for the first time at this ‘new’ home and are not doing well this year (seems our spot is the local ant hill for the entire neighborhood.) Some of your mother’s choice of containers give me some ideas for next year, and I love the idea of the tomato seeds and pulp. Do you plant those in the fall or in the spring? How does she do that?

those plants look amazing! I’m in awe of the lush, beautiful, and practical garden she’s got there.

How wonderful to have some a diverse/beautiful garden. all the herbs. I would not have thot of just throwing the seeds/peelings into the dirt to grow. Wonder if that would work for the infamous black thumb of death that lives at my house..

What a beautiful garden. The new growth on the sage looks great - as do all the leaves. Amazing what a bit of rain can do. Wish I could smell what you must have smelled. Love my bit of garden - think I could be Candide sometimes.

Love this garden.
All my favourite things. I do relate to the choices since I am half Italian and love to make up all kinds of recipes with my fresh herbs and garden lovelies.
I did a square foot garden this year. I just blogged about it in my last post.
ciao bellas,
carol gourley

I had a small garden for a couple of years, and what I wanted to achieve was exactly what your mum and dad did. Now I know how difficult it is, and I am even more amazed at the fantastic results. The snails were having much more of my veggies than us, the redcurrants were eaten by birds, and the rest was killed by the neighbour’s cat
Thank you for taking the time to take pictures and sharing them with us!

Your mother’s garden is beautiful you can tell she puts her heart into it.

I garden, I love it (when it’s not above 90 degrees F) and it’s a ton of work. Kudos to your Mom - and you! The beauty, the life and the bounty make it all worth while. I shall have to try burying tomato peels and seeds..

Beautiful! My mom has always enjoyed gardening, and I am learning to love it myself. Though, my garden is not nearly that beautiful!

Thank you so much for letting us catch a glimpse of this beautiful garden. Makes me very wistful for ‘greenery’ after living in the desert so long - my container gardens never survive the summer heat