TROUTS
FARM GARDENS
May, 2011
A PIECE OF
NANA’S GARDEN AT TROUTS FARM
Camille’s Nana
grew hydrangeas and she is happy that Trouts Farm came with a healthy hydrangea
bush. This year, blooms began to appear during the first week of May.
RED HOTS
The red hot pokers
weren’t far behind the hydrangeas and together make an impressive flower
arrangement, which, sadly, we did not capture in pixels.
RED TIPS
May is when the
red tips on the north side of the garden get messy and put out new growth.
BERRY,
BERRY NICE
We ate our first
blueberry this season from our little plants which hold the promise of blueberry
abundance in years to come. Our strawberries, on the other hand, are
already showing off with handfuls of sweet, ripe berries every time we walk by.
PARSLEY
AND CARROTS
Sometimes it’s
hard to tell the two apart. For one thing, parsley doesn’t need thinning,
while the carrots do.
NEWCOMER
Shallots are new
to Bob’s garden this year and we are using them anywhere we would use onions
and/or garlic.
MORE PEAS,
PLEASE
Peas are one
vegetable we can’t seem to get enough of. The sugar snap peas found their
way into salads while the English peas ended up in casseroles. We eat them
as fast as they grow so nothing made it’s way to the deep freeze for later.
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