Hope you had a wonderful Solstice too! I love the Solstice and have this feeling that I made it - now the days will become longer. In our harsh climate it is very easy to turn more inward as the land goes

Congratulations and all the best in your new endeavors!

I love reading your messages for the changing seasons, the equinox, for you are so attuned to nature and the teachings you can derive from nature - so inspiring - thank-you!

It is so wonderful having horses in your life, wonderful that your girls have befriended them too! We have a mother and her two daughter living in the pasture across the road. They are very friendly and

Did I miss the deadline? I thought I was doing good having it in the first week in July - a be it late on the last day of the week.

I hear ya - such a bummer to be sick when there is so much to do but always best when you can give yourself the time to recover - I adopted the motto of I get done what I get done and I don't get upset

You have made such a lovely, productive homestead where you are I always wondered how you could leave it - now you can have the best of both - your developed homestead and visiting the beautiful Tasmania!

Lovely to have some food growing instead of just concrete! Looks like you are making good progress on changing it over and I love your fancy chicken coop!

Those were the later blooming lilacs. I do have some of the earlier blooming ones but everything was late blooming this year with the late Spring.

Such lovely looking beets - I like the idea of growing the big top ones for I love steamed beet tops. Do you ever make cabbage rolls with them substituting the beet tops for the cabbage? My sister in law

Your garden is so organized and well kept! I imagine you get a wonderful bounty from it too!

Yep got to make the most of our short growing season! That is straw that I use as mulch. A farmer who lives down the road drops off those big round bales at my place which is usually good for a couple

Hi Jayna - thanks for visiting my garden! The duck is an old decoy that was too worn to be used but I love it in my flower pot. JJ loves being outside for the summer especially since we have such long

What a lovely forest to meaner through and so many mushrooms! Are you still planning on moving to Tasmania?

It seems like you don't have much growing in your hoop house that it is mostly prep work at this time. What are your average temperatures this time of year?

Lovely to see things lush and green and the description of your pickles got me craving a sample! I do hope you recover quickly with no long term effects from covid! Great to see the gardens from down under!

With all these extreme weather conditions I'm happy I set up to have some more controlled environments in my garden. Thanks for doing this rundown for what people are doing in their gardens!

Yah! I finally got my garden update done in time for the challenge! Here is my link -

Oh dear! So happy you found her and will be giving her some loving care - so hope she recovers!

What a wide variety of gardens folks are sharing from all around the world - love it! I missed the deadline but I finally got my June garden update done at: