I like to go through about twice a month and just take photos of each raised bed so i can compare year to year. This year's garden is feeling pretty good... that is until Facebook popped a photo of mounds of colorful, blooming Nasturtium from a few years ago. Okay, my Nasturtium are still tiny this year. But overall, this is one of my best tended gardens and the list of things to change next year is very, very short.
The peas came out yesterday. They were still green and beautiful, but completely picked clean. The best part was - not a weed to be seen.
That bed has now had mulch added, the open pollinated Dahlias from seed I saved last year are transplanted and the other end is set up for a later planting of Cucumbers which are seeded in cells. The Dahlias were starting to suffer, and their little tubers were poking through the drain holes, but they will turn around quickly.
Here are the rest of the beds one by one:
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Pickling Cucumbers and Slicing Cucumbers I am going to keep these from mingling in the center so when the pickles have been made, the vines can come out. |
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From the other side. They are flowering, and will soon be shading the Celery |
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Solstice Sweet Corn planted May 20th |
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Gotta Have It planted June 1st |
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Clarimore and Dunja Zucchini together It took about three tries and a dozen seeds but I finally got a Dunja plant. |
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Cantaloupe and Pumpkin |
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Cole Crops |
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Cauliflower |
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Golden Acre Cabbage |
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Indeterminate Tomatoes |
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Carbon babies |
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Bell Peppers full of buds |
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Potted Bells |
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Havasu Peppers |
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Havasu Baby |
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Sweet Potatoes, Carrots and Herbs I have been pulling a lot of carrots |
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Dill, Sunflowers, Sweet Potatoes and Eggplant |
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Sunflowers soon |
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The Pole Bean bed still looks ragged, but things are good in there |
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First seeding of Seychelles is climbing |
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Dwarf Tomatoes and Onions |
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I am still learning about this growing Onions from seed thing. The one in the middle is one of mine, and the larger on each side are the nursery grown Candy Onions |
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Dwarf Tomatoes |
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Setting fruit |
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Micro Tomato |
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I am proud of this Eggplant. These are the two spare plants I hid on top of the potting bench which ended up rallying and out growing the other pair I had in a larger pot. I have switched the pots now so the larger plants are in the larger pot. Not long ago Aphids found these and I spent about a week spraying with Neem Oil every morning. Now I am getting an occasional flea beetle but the Aphids are finally gone. I wrote at length in this blog entry about my love of soft, blemish free Eggplant leaves. |
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Yukon Gold Potatoes I dug a plant the other day and they are beautiful and scab free. Iron-tone (with a 17% sulfur content) seems to have done the trick on that. |
Everything is looking absolutely fabulous!
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