Garden Update

Hello! It seems to me that I am overdue for an update on the garden. I am very pleased to say that between what we learned from experience last year, and the better weather this year, the garden is doing pretty well. I haven't picked anything yet, but I have lots of photos to share.


Here is the view from one corner of the garden- you can see a little bit of most everything.

Pea plants and a pretty pea blossom. There are a few pea pods almost ready to pick, I think I will go back for them and a few other things this weekend.



Radishes! They don't look ready yet, but seem to be better this year since we spaced them a little farther apart.


Cucumbers- the plants are still a little small, but seem healthy. We probably won't have cucumbers until August.



Mixed greens lettuces- I am definitely picking these this weekend and making a salad. I also plan to plant more seeds afterward so we can get a second crop.



Green beans- these are also basically ready to pick!


Green Peppers- as you can see we have a blossom on one of the pepper plants, and they both look healthy.



Chamomile- It is growing! I was not sure it would there for awhile. Now I just need to find out how to make it into tea . . .


The tomatoes- Four of the five plants are doing wonderfully. The small plant in the second cage there has some wilting and yellowing leaves. I really hope it is not blight. It may just be over watering- it doesn't really look like blight yet. I am giving it until this weekend to get better, but if it doesn't I might have to get rid of it so the others don't get infected. There are lots of green tomatoes that need protecting!




Last but not least Zucchini- The plants are looking good, and there are some blossoms. I just hope we actually get some zucchini this year, last year we had tons of blossoms but none ever fruited.

First Strawberries of the Season

Here they are- the first ripe berries of the season and the first thing to come from the garden this year!

The garden is planted! (finally)

Hooray! My garden is planted and that means (to me) that it is officially summer. This year I did things a little differently and did not start any of the seeds inside, because lots of the plants seemed to struggle after being transplanted last year. This year it was all seeds straight in the ground or older seedlings from the nursery. I also planted more of each kind of seed but fewer different kinds. I had hoped to plant a couple weeks ago, but every time I was free to plant it poured rain. Hopefully all the plants will do well despite the delay.

The strawberries I planted last year are doing better this year, and it looks like we will actually have some to eat! I also sprinkled a few zinnia seeds in the corners of the strawberry bed, after the strawberries are done for the season I will have big bright zinnias to enjoy.



These are my tomato plants. I have three varieties of regular tomatoes and then a Roma tomato and grape tomato plant. I love grape and Roma tomatoes, so I am hoping for tons of tomatoes in a few months.

I bought two pepper plants this year, since last year's peppers that I started from seed never really went anywhere. The bigger one is a yellow bell pepper (it already has a bloom!) and the
other is a bell pepper that is supposed to grow both red and green peppers.



















I planted a whole row of peas this year, and they are already up! My nephew helped plant these and there is a random mix of regular and sugar peas.



The other seeds aren't up yet, but I planted a row of radishes, a row of romaine lettuce, a row of green beans, two rows of loose leaf lettuce, a row of cucumber hills, one watermelon hill, a row of zucchini, some chamomile, some aster seeds, and cilantro, chives and catnip planted in pots. I can't wait to post pictures of everything as it comes up!

My Garden!

So, my little break was a little longer than I planned, but hey, that's life right? I did get a lot of stuff done while I wasn't blogging though, including planting my garden! I planted everything on Saturday, plants and seeds alike. I know I should have gotten the seeds planted a little earlier, but there was just too much to do getting the ground ready this first year. So, here are a bunch of pictures of my garden taken on Saturday. The only things you can't see are the recently planted seeds (of course), but planted carrots, radishes, lettuce, spinach and arugula seeds. Hopefully a few will be popping up today when I go check on everything.


Here it is- My Garden! Up at the top in the small section I planted 6 strawberry plants and all my zinnia seedlings and the big area has all the rest of the veggies as well as the three little poppy plants that came up.


A couple little critters I found crawling around.

My strawberry plants! I bought these and the tomato plants and I am so excited about fresh strawberries.


This is the one bean plant that I didn't break while transplanting, so I planted a few more bean seeds in hopes to make up for that.


Green pepper and Jalapeno plants.



Eggplant!



Peas plants, I have some of both sugar peas and regular peas.


Watermelon. I have never successfully grown a regular watermelon, so I planted the small personal sized variety in hopes that will be easier.


Cucumbers


Honeydew melon.


Tomato plant. I planted 5 tomato plants, 2 of which are cherry tomatoes and the other 3 are of the regular variety.


Zucchini

Yay plants! I finished my sock too last week, and I will post about it and any exciting garden progress soon.