Vegetable Garden update

It's the 3rd week of June and the garden is looking good.

Just planted some bush beans for drying - black, calypso, kidney, cranberry varieties

 Some corn sprouts coming up in the two pots

 Butternut squash is starting well

 

 Watermelon vines

 The hops have topped out the trellises and are starting to flower and form cones

The two paprika pepper plants didn't make it early so we replaced with jalapenos from the garden center. 

Some baby peppers 

 We started the onions a little late, not sure how big they'll be when we harvest them. 

 The bed of garlic that was planted last fall looks fantastic.  

 They all have scapes or have bloomed, so they'll start dying and be ready for harvesting in a few weeks.

The tomatillos and ground cherries that we started from seed really took off once they were in the ground. 

 Tomatoes are nice and bushy, and all have fruit

We did potatoes in the pots again, hopefully they do better than last year

 Sweet potato vines in half of the pots

Come on Spring!

So, it's the end of March, although the weather outside isn't cooperating very much.
I'm starting to get shipments of seeds and bulbs in from all the orders I placed last month.

Here is a summary of our vegetable/herbs/fruit plans this year:

Basil - Bam and Christmas
Beans - Dried varieties, selected from last year's harvest
Beets - Golden
Carrots
Corn - This is a new experiment for us. Growing up, our family never had good luck with corn, but we are going to give it a try with a variety that can be grown in pots!
Dill
Garlic
Gourds
Ground Cherries
Lettuce
Onions
Pepper - Alma Paprika
Pepper - Feher Ozon Paprika
Pepper - Gatherer's Gold
Pepper - Ghost Pepper
Pepper - Italian Pepperocini
Pepper - Hot Lemon
Pepper - Sweet Nikita
Pepper - Big Guy Jalepeno
Pepper - Hot Fish Heirloom
Pepper - Hot Diablito
Pepper - Hot Daddy
Pepper - Hot Poblano
Potato - Masquerade
Radishes
Raspberries - Anne Yellow
Rhubarb
Snap Peas
Strawberries - Need to fill in a few spots
Sweet Potato - Georgia Jet
Swiss Chard
Tomato - Ananas Noire
Tomato - Gill's All Purpose
Tomato - Green Zebra
Tomato - Hillbilly
Tomato - Persimmon
Tomato - Orange Wellington
Tomato - Brandywine Pink
Tomato - Black Krim
Tomato - Razzle Dazzle
Tomato - Mr. Stripey
Tomatillos
Yard Long Purple Noodle Beans - Saved from last year's harvest


Planning on starting the Tomatillos, Ground Cherries, and a few flowers indoors this weekend with a make-shift indoor light/heater system. I'll post pictures after it's set up!

Garden Late Summer

Our two best vegetables by far were the tomatoes and peppers, which all went crazy. The tomato plants eventually grew out the top of the bird netting

 We had to stake up the pepper plants because they grew so many branches that all had heavy peppers

 Sweet potato vines expanded all over.  Unfortunately the zucchini and squash plants in the back were decimated by squash bugs and rotted.

 We put up two different grape vines on the arbor we built over the entrance to the garden.

 We finally got the fence painted too

Garden Update

The progression of the gardens:

Jason and I have been working on expanding the vegetable garden and making it seem a little more put together. This is how it looked about a week ago. We are getting fencing delivered tomorrow to put around the stone paths.

Jason is tilling me a new flower garden in front of the vegetable beds! I have the BEST husband!

I went away to Dallas for a few days for work and I got back and wondered why Jason had planted things around my bean pole tee-pee and then I realized the beans had sprouted and grown this much while I was away!

The strawberries are starting to ripen. We've harvested about 2 lbs already this week and there a bunch more that will be ready soon!

    

2 lbs and counting!

Blueberries are going to start to color soon too!

Blackberries are blooming!

Look at the baby raspberries!

Strawberries and Slugs

We had some slugs going after our lettuce (the iceberg and romaine) in the vegetable beds, and in the flower beds, the hostas.  Little holes in the leaves.  So I set up beer traps, basically the bottom half of a soda can burried in the ground, with some beer in it.  They come out at night, and so the next day, filled with dead slugs.  What a way to go out, drowned in beer.

Luckily, no slugs on our strawberry patch, which is going bonkers.  We've got bird netting over the area this year, so hopefully they won't all disapear the day they get ripe. A few are ready to eat!

It's Spring!

It was a beautiful weekend!

Hoosick loved playing outside, we played fetch for awhile until Hoosick decided she was tired and never went to get the ball again. She was also happy to take a nap in the warm sun.

 
The crocus are up and looking beautiful!

The little red things are our bleeding heart! The hostas are also starting to come up, but didn't take a good picture. I can't WAIT til everything comes awake this spring!