Wednesday, July 2, 2008

Our garden a month ago (late May)

here is Noah on the edge of one of our raised beds. Rainbow chard is in the front, then Russian Kale, then peas in the back. Also, there is a grape tomato in the clay pot in front. Now that bed is full of totally different veggies- brand new bush bean plants in back, a few green peppers in teh middle, and cucumbers in front. The tomato in the pot is doing really well and has already given us a bunch of yummy red tomatoes.
This is our first try at a hay bale garden. We planted 6 cucumbers (3 pickling and 3 slicing), and 6 bell peppers (3 purple and 3 red, i think). The slicing cukes died, but the pickling ones are doing great. The pepper plants seem okay, but are slow growing.

Here is our pumpkin patch. We "planted" our Jack-o-Lanterns here last winter. Right now we've got about 5 pie sized pumpkins ripening on the vine and lots more blossoms.
This bed had sugar snap peas (that weren't very tasty, in my opinion) in front and tomatoes in back. Now the peas are gone and just the back row of tomatoes are in. Oh, and one Japanese Eggplant. The tomatoes are all thriving now, despite a bought with a ton of aphids and then an incident with too soapy water. We had ladybugs to help, and they probably helped a little but not enough. Brian got some organic bug stuff and that really helped. Our best growing tomato so far is a golden yellow cherry sized one.
Here is our other tomato bed. These are much bigger now and are starting to get fruit, but for some reason they aren't doing as well as the ones in the other bed. Brian says it's because the soil isn't as good in this bed. See, we're farmers.

1 comment:

aqbrooks said...

I am so impressed! I can't get anything to grow!
Love,
Lisa