Wednesday, June 09, 2010

Garden update

Lots of growth and new life with pictures to prove it!  Let us not tarry:

Broccoli, peas and beans - this bed isn't doing very well.  Perhaps I should take some time to weed it?
I've harvested a handful of YUMMY beans and peas - no broccoli yet.


This is our salad bar - producing black-seeded lettuce, purple basil, cilantro, spinach and swiss chard galore.  We are waiting for tomatoes, cucumbers, squash and peppers. 

Here we have watermelon on an old fire pit - it seems to be doing alright.  I'm ready to see some flowers on it, though.


Summer squash - harvested 2 beauties so far and don't see any others coming.  I was hoping to have at least a dozen by now.  Alas, beginner's luck.

This is, by far, the cleanest bed we have.  It is filled to the brim with peat moss, rockwool and little clay balls that I don't know the name of.  VERY little weeding needs to be done here, thankfully.  My lazy-time is quite precious to me.
Unfortunately, only radishes have been harvested from this bed so far.  Tomato plants are lookin' ready to flower (or so I hope), strawberry plants are shooting out runners and we let them take root to transplant them into pots.  They make great gifts, by the way!  I don't anticipate having berries for at least another year.  The plants are most important for now.
More lettuce, cayenne peppers are fruiting, thyme to go with the purple basil (makes wonderful tea for upset tummy), radishes and carrots.

The newest bed has corn, peppers and tomatoes.  (They're already sprouted, this is about a week old photo but, LOOK AT THAT BED!)

New sprouts of canteloup, strawberry plants (from the runners), cilantro and tons of tomatoes.

New life - oregano, chamomile, catnip and other stuff I can't remember :)

Two years ago, a fellow Freecycler gave this Southern Magnolia to us in a pot...and that's where it stayed until a few weeks ago.  Now she has a home in our front yard and is looking very nice.

For two years I've mowed this area down not knowing what was planted there.  Oopsie!  Looks like whatever these are have survived just fine despite my ignorance.

From garden to table and it was DELICIOUS!
Grow organic.

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