Gardens update

 Alright, so here it is the end of June and I am woefully behind and really seriously slacking in the garden dept.  This is a picture of the garden at this moment - in DESPERATE need of some weeding!  Did I mention that we moved to a brand new spot and hubby wanted a "traditional row garden"?  I *really* prefer my square foot/ lasagna bed garden - so much easier!  Things are growing in here, among the weeds.  We have harvested some peas, lettuce and cucumbers.  There are onions, carrots, beets, peppers, chard, collards, broccoli, cauliflower, brussels sprout, kale, beans, lots of squash, and pumpkin.  The corn didn't really come up and the chickens found their way back in - their favorite dust bathing spot is where we planted the corn, so that's a lost cause.  The 30 tomato plants that we planted from seed?  Well, about 3 of them came up.  So, I bought 6 plants at Lowe's and then found a lady on craigslist selling tomato plants for $2 each.  She had sold most of them but had some left and said I could just have them for free since they were getting straggly being in containers so long.  So, I picked up 20 free tomato plants!  :-)  I now have 24 plants in the ground doing well and probably at least 18 different varieties - which is tons of fun!  Below are pics of the peas, apples, and the fig tree so far this year.  I have also harvested some asparagus, and rhubarb and very soon will be picking lots of wild and domestic blackberries.

A walk through the woods

... and around the yard.  Some early plant pics, and animals too.  :-)

Spring walk around the yard

We noticed the below pictured items when we walked around the yard with the camera today.  We also saw that the lilies and tulips are popping up, the foxglove is growing, strawberry plants are getting new leaves (bed needs repaired), 5 of the 8 bushes we transplanted last fall have new growth, the parsley in the herb bed is growing, the sage is growing again, and there is some kale in the "cold bed" that is growing again!  There is lots of chicken and rabbit fertilizer to fill the beds with.  I need to plan how to move a couple of the beds from the large garden to the small garden and get the small garden fenced in.  We still haven't recovered the greenhouse, that and cleaning the chicken house and adding another run for the new chicks are a priority.

Iris shoot

Forsythia buds

Rhubarb new leaves

Blackberry bush new leaves (blurry)

Small Garden

Asparagus bed ~ 10 little shoots, need to add more composted soil

Pumpkin side of L-shaped bed
Yellow squash and Watermelon side of L-shaped bed

Potatoes

Main Garden Tour 4

Rose in the garden - ready to pick!

Rainbow Swiss Chard, Marigolds, Peppers, Dill, Oregano, Sage
Corn bed

Main Garden Tour 4

Paste Tomatoes

Cauliflower - eaten by bugs, not forming heads

Yellow pear tomatoes in cauliflower/carrot bed

Green and Red Delicious Tomatoes

Pole beans

Close-ups

Small gardens

The "cold bed" - lettuce, broccoli, collards, cabbage, spinach (daylilies to the side).


The "small garden" -yellow squash and watermelon.


Pumpkins

Potatoes


The asparagus never came up. :( Maybe in the spring? I doubt it.

Main Garden Tour 3

Whole Main Garden

Swiss Chard, Herbs, Marigolds, Peppers

Corn

Tomatoes, Cauliflower, Carrots

Paste Tomatoes

Tomatoes

Pole Beans

Bush Beans

Zucchini

Peas

Cucumbers

Main Garden Tour 2

Main garden from outside fence

Swiss Chard, peppers, herbs, marigolds

Corn

Paste tomatoes

Tomatoes, cauliflower, carrots.

Tomatoes.

Pole beans (like my teepee?)

Bush beans

Zukes

Peas

Cukes