Sunday, 9 August 2015
Long Beach Peninsula Edible Garden Tour
The annual edible garden tour, presented by the Long Beach Grange, is a benefit for local food banks.
Little Tyke Garden
John and Judy named their garden “Little Tyke” and describe it as “simple, easy, fun”. I visited it with Garden Tour Nancy not long ago and on that day was able to tour the flower garden part. Today, that had caution tape because the paths are narrow. The main edible tour feature was John’s container kitchen garden, but for me the whole garden is a delight, especially his garden art from found objects.
Little Tyke
front garden
Only the balloons hint at the artful garden in back. (Allan’s photo)
compost sifter on wheelbarrow
garden table divides kitchen garden from flower garden (Allan’s photo)
one of John’s cool art creations
I like it very much.
driftwood and found objects make art
looking south into the flower garden
Driftwood protects a fish pond from raccoons. (Allan’s photo)
The sign is one that they found.
A tour guest in the container veg garden peer into the flower garden. (Allan’s photo)
tomatoes on south wall of garage
container kitchen garden
backlit chard
looking back at the house
deck railing
on the deck
on the deck (Allan’s photo)
another critter by John
deck windows looking east (Allan’s photo)
a shovel critter that rocked (Allan’s photo)
Allan’s photo of me photographing John and a tour guests. John’s in the Hawaiian shirt.
Allan’s photo: tour host Judy and me.
I said to Judy “Your voice, the way you move, and the way you look are so much like a Judy I used to know that it’s spooky.” She said “I AM that Judy!” It was funny. She modestly had a name tag just saying “John’s wife”, because she said the kitchen garden is his project. She made me laugh.
She invited me in to see a wintertime project of John’s:
a button head with watches for eyes
her friendly little dog (Allan’s photo)
very friendly – I wonder if he is “little tyke”
flowers on the deck (Allan’s photo)
looking northeast over the garden
SE view
all kinds of fun objects
John his ownself
from my pre-tour visit
I was sorry to leave because I’d really taken to John and Judy on both visits to their garden. However, we have seven more gardens to see. Before we leave for the next one, let’s look around the charming cul-de-sac on which John and Judy live.
intermission
This house is at the entrance and is next to the original house on the block.
You can just see a taller house behind it that was the first house on the block:
An arbour on the other side of the street from Little Tyke:
pretty window boxes at the end of the little street
a pond makes a nice view for end of the block houses
Next: the garden behind the Planter Box garden center that feeds a large family.
A good place for a visit.
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