What's Growing in the Garden
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Sorry, I couldn't resist
Finally night time temps. are high enough to plant peppers. Put tomatoes in last week. New strawberries are looking good with a few blossoms. Peas and beets looking good also. It’s getting hot here so I hope that they all will survive!
Well, I got stupid and moved the pepper and tomato seedlings outside too soon. Lost them all. So today we made a run for plants to transplant. We'd already purchased and transplanted a few tomato and pepper plants. Today we filled out the bed. We also bought some leeks and got those transplanted as well. We got some straw to put down as well to help hold moisture in the ground and I got the soaker hose set up. One of the challenges we've had with out raise bed setup is how quickly it can dry out, thus how often we need to water it, prior to the plants growing large enough to shade the ground. And it's been very dry here - we really need some rain.
Here's where things currently stand. We've got various tomato and pepper plants, green beans, cucumbers, leeks, butter lettuce, green onions, and strawberries growing in the raised beds. There are some various herbs in pots on our back patio. Yeah, I know the area with mulch is filled with weeds... They popped up around the ground cloth and through the seem (even though I folded it). We'll pull it out next spring and put new cloth and mulch down.
We had a volunteer butter lettuce plant from one going to seed last year, so we've been able to pick some leaves every few days as of late. And the first strawberry got picked today.
No pictures, but the two elderberry bushes we transplanted are doing well. The blackberries we transplanted in the fall didn't seem to survive - which was also the case for the people who gave them to us. But the raspberries that were there, that were cut down before we moved in, are really starting to come back and take off and we're happy about that. The rhubarb that we transplanted last year is taking off more. They say to wait two years before harvesting, so next year my wife is excited to start harvesting - and in the meantime she knows people she can get rhubarb from to cut and freeze/make things with. My wife has also been planting a lot of flowers around the house, mainly along the back, and it's looking very nice.
We're giving thought to adding another raised bed next year, but aren't certain yet.
Here's where things currently stand. We've got various tomato and pepper plants, green beans, cucumbers, leeks, butter lettuce, green onions, and strawberries growing in the raised beds. There are some various herbs in pots on our back patio. Yeah, I know the area with mulch is filled with weeds... They popped up around the ground cloth and through the seem (even though I folded it). We'll pull it out next spring and put new cloth and mulch down.
We had a volunteer butter lettuce plant from one going to seed last year, so we've been able to pick some leaves every few days as of late. And the first strawberry got picked today.
No pictures, but the two elderberry bushes we transplanted are doing well. The blackberries we transplanted in the fall didn't seem to survive - which was also the case for the people who gave them to us. But the raspberries that were there, that were cut down before we moved in, are really starting to come back and take off and we're happy about that. The rhubarb that we transplanted last year is taking off more. They say to wait two years before harvesting, so next year my wife is excited to start harvesting - and in the meantime she knows people she can get rhubarb from to cut and freeze/make things with. My wife has also been planting a lot of flowers around the house, mainly along the back, and it's looking very nice.
We're giving thought to adding another raised bed next year, but aren't certain yet.
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Very cool setup Matt. Your tomatoes and peppers may be behind where mine are, but I'm jealous of your beans! We've had such crazy wet weather I haven't planted any beans yet, just a few days ago got the sweet corn planted and hoping to get beans in this weekend.
Also working on getting mulch down, I use a thick layer of grass clippings, but that will take me a couple of weeks to get everything covered. Too big of a garden, and too many other things need attention...
Also working on getting mulch down, I use a thick layer of grass clippings, but that will take me a couple of weeks to get everything covered. Too big of a garden, and too many other things need attention...
Lil Mikey's been pulling weeds for a while now, and has finally gotten some reward. Let's jes say Lil Mikey likes his girls to wear frilly things
And to smell good!
And to smell good!
Rob, love your raised beds! And am jealous of your peas! I can't grow them - well, let me explain better - if I could get Lil Mikey to get going earlier and get them in the ground earlier he could have peas and sweet peas - but........................
ATTACK of the striped cucumber beetle!! Die you little suckers DIE!
I feel your pain! Although the main nemesis of my cucurbits around my yard is squash vine borer!
Are you using anything on them? Spinosad?
I don't try anymore - don't have the space (i.e. sunlight) My house is approaching 80 years old and all the trees are mature and tall. Plus, when I had my bees - I stopped using pesticides because of them. Now, I'd use it, but no sun. Had heard that since the plants are not near the ground, that hydroponic cucurbits are not bothered by SVB.
That makes sense
I tell ya - I like 'em frilly - It don't matter the color of their dress. Flowers are finally coming on!
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Pretty Ladies!
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Cherry pudding this weekend!
Neighbor called tonight asking if we wanted any cherries. Got a storm coming through tonight with projected 2" size hail, and neighbor had already picked what they wanted. Drove over and picked a couple gallons in about a half hour. Glad to have these as my cherry tree will have it's first crop this year, but will only get a quart or so off of it.
Neighbor called tonight asking if we wanted any cherries. Got a storm coming through tonight with projected 2" size hail, and neighbor had already picked what they wanted. Drove over and picked a couple gallons in about a half hour. Glad to have these as my cherry tree will have it's first crop this year, but will only get a quart or so off of it.
Cherries, I love cherries.... I've got some fig trees but no cherries. Me and the squirrels have been posturing around the yard. They know they are getting ripe and I know they are getting ripe. I have a 22, they don't....
Alan
Alan
I didnt know they liked cherries.
I've been wanting a cherry tree for a while now....
Does that attract slugs or is just my garden?