I was going to use the title ‘Garden of Eden’ but it made no sense, there are still plenty of weeds! 
Do you think they had weeds in the Garden of Eden? When I was a child I wondered who Eden was and how she managed to be such a great gardener. Obviously she was not Eve. Eve was not much off a gardener evidently. Just a chip off the old rib. Which of those disciple blokes came up with the rib thing! My mother could have told me, she knew the Bible inside out. 
I just crop my images hard, so it looks better. We all do that don’t we in our minds eyes. Thank goodness. If we saw everything as a whole all the time we would never be able to rest! It’s a seventh day thing. I was brought up in a staunchly religious family – I can say those kinds of things. 
This is where we all get to sing “One of these things is not like the other, One of these things just doesn’t belong… ”
But this is a beauty. 
Every year Our John and his mother (The Matriarch) have a race to see who can grow the first tomato for the Fourth of July. It will be close.
I hope you have a wonderful day.
Your friend on the farm
celi
The Kitchen's Garden 
70 responses to “Garden of Cecilia”
a beautiful garden it is. weeds…….pffft….as my daughter would say!
That tomato looks quite big already!
a weed is just a plant in the ‘wrong’ place, you define weeds, no one else does 🙂 x
I was going to say the same thing – you beat me to it! And some ‘weeds’ can actually be quite pretty, like a field full of buttercups.
I agree. some weeds i let grow but that choking killer binder weed, morning glory are smothering the sage, thistles taller than my peonies.. well I am sure we all do do some weeding? Don’t you weed your garden too?
I spend my whole summer weeding LOL. If not my garden then the three other gardens I look after!!
Oh yes Oh Yes! I take out plants I don’t want – of course and if one is growing veg or fruit trees or something that wants all the nutrition then of course one takes out the other plants along the way 🙂
Oh my dear. You’re such a marvelous truth teller! I’m a big “cropper”…so much fun to cut out the ugly bits. Still laughing about Eden being a great gardener. Kind of like my take on the age-old before dinner prayer, which I thought went like this…God is grape, good is good, lettuce thank ’em etc….It was supposed to be about food, right??? Your flowers are gorge. I’m a sucker for peonies. Ahhhhh, that smell…
Oh that did make me laugh.. Hah ha ha lettuce pray! excellent!.. c
My goodness Illinois is so much further ahead than Ontario. I just planted my tomatoe plants last night! A little late but none the less I won’t be in the running for your competition. I have spent some time catching up on your lovely blog after my trip. Your spring ‘crop’ lightens my spirit. Thanks for the beautiful shots.
City gardens always seem to have to be so “perfect”. The joy of living in the country is that there is room for weeds, many of which have beautiful flowers. I guess we all need some balance. You started my morning off with a chuckle with that song. Thanks.
you are welcome margaret, I have almost an acre of flower garden so there is still plenty of room for weeds, but some of them are pretty bad, no room for my flowers! c
Lovely images for a spring day…we too have irises and lilacs (although the lilacs are done now). My seedlings are so far behind and you there with the little tomato already popped out! Have a gorgeous day!
Wow you are way ahead of me in the Tomato race! Mine are only a few inches tall.
I have noticed the terrible winter didn’t harm the weeds one bit, they are shooting up quite healthy 🙂
Hugs, Lyn
Some weeds definitely sprang out of Eden. And every plant we cultivate so carefully was once a weed somewhere, but some are very dubious: i find it hard to love a stinging nettle or nutgrass. I can almost smell your lilacs… Your spring is blooming beautifully. Our weather is becoming a little milder, but we’ve just been told that our winter temperatures will be in the mid twenties Celsius until spring! I don’t know about you, but I think 77F doesn’t really deserve the term ‘winter’.
You have the most perfect winter weather, which is good as it seems you grow most of your food in the wintery 77F months, I need to pop into Join Us and check up on where you are in aussie, it must be terribly hot in the summer!.. I love that join us page, it is an excellent reference.. c
Katechiconi: Did you know you can eat stinging nettle? I’ve had it stuffed in raviolis here in Italy…it was very good, more or less like spinach or borage. Maybe you’d hate it less wrapped in a thin sheet of pasta with parmesan sprinkled on top! (But you’re right. It is, otherwise, nasty stuff! I’ve been burned by it too many times not to agree with you!)
Mackay, halfway between Brisbane and Cairns. Sugar cane country. And yes, very, very hot in the summer, well over 100F for weeks on end, but we are blessed also with sea breezes, being on the coast.
i cannot resist green fried tomatoes
my early tomatoes never get that big, when they get about 2 inches across,sometimes less, they are sliced, rolled in parmazon cheese\flour mixture,and fried in butter
the tumblin tom cherry tomatoes usually ripen in mid june,earliest to ripen that i have found
Imagine what the Head gardener would do to my throat if i did that to his first tomato! But it does sound delicious.. c
Perhaps there weren’t weeds before the first bite of the apple? Ok, I also can’t believe how quickly that tomato fruited – may I ask you to share Our John’s formula for success?
Your garden must look really pretty with all the collective blooms. Enjoy 🙂 Laura
he starts them inside, us variety of course, wait there.. I will run outside and look at the stake and see what variety it is..
Purple cherokee.. if you cannot find it there, let me know and i will save some seed for you.. c
ooooh, those are my favorites!! YUM
Purple Cherokee is listed as a Heritage seed here, and can be obtained. I wanted the other secrets like the soil/seed mix and other things like ground eggshells, molasses etc etc. Were these all started in your greenhouse? Laura
yes, started in the glass house and also fertilised with composted cow manure. Also things grow very fast out here, once they get going.. No secret though.. c
Tomatoes are already ripening down here in SW Georgia. Just not in my garden . . . yet.
Beautiful flowers, C.
Why can the ‘Garden of Cecilia’ not equate with ‘Garden of Weeds’? Weeds too are useful plants!!!!
And edible too 🙂
Not grass, grass is not edible .. not for me anyway.. c
I’d be happy to garden in the garden of celi especially if I got to sing stuff from the muppets
You’re cheating right? We just got to put our tomato plants in the ground this week. 🙂
It has only been in the ground a couple of weeks really, the ground took a long time to warm up, I am glad yours are in, thank goodness, you had a long long winter.. c