It was hot today! Over 90 degrees and HUMID. The garden still needed "a-weedin' ", but all six of my kids helped me. It's a lot of fun to grow your own food, but it sure is a lot of WORK! Satisfying though, ya know? Here are some pictures to show the progress...
These are a couple of pumpkin vines starting...
We've got a whole long row of potato plants. We planted them late in the season, so they're just starting to comeup. Nice and dark green though!
Below is a picture of corn. It's only about 6-7 inches high due to the drought. We've got four rows of it. Not enough to freeze a ton, but enough to have some great suppers "come fall."
Below is a picture of a zucchini plant. We've got nine bush plants so far. Planted more than that, but some aren't coming up.
These are hard to see. Most are green peppers. Down the row further are Mexican hot peppers. I love putting newspaper down and then the straw. NO WEEDING. We'll continue to do this throughout June/July. We just didn't have enough paper, straw and TIME to do it all at once!
On the right side of the fence in the picture below are green beans. We planted those late too, but they popped up quickly. On the other side of the fence are cucumbers - lots and lots of cucumbers. We're hoping to "train" them up the fence.
My boys made me these wooden frames for Mother's Day. I LOVE them!
In the frame below I have onions planted on one end and parsnips on the other. The parsnips are JUST starting to come. Can't see them in a picture yet.
In the frame below are radishes and dill. The radishes are ALMOST ready to eat!
Tomatoes, tomatoes! Almost all of my tomatoes were from seeds I planted myself. I have sixty in our garden. I gave about 25 away! We'll be swimming in tomatoes by August. Can't wait to start canning!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh - and making fried green tomatoes for me and my boys (the girls don't like them).
Another view of the garden.
We put the newspapers and straw down right when we put the tomato seedlings in back in May. Haven't had to weed them yet and it looks so nice.
One more view of the tomatoes!:)
HAPPY GARDENING TO ALL YOU GARDENERS!
2 comments:
wow what an amazing garden!!!! We try and plant one every year but never seem to be able to maintain it. We do have some herbs growing and a few peaches on our peach tree. Hopefully they will get ripe and we can eat them before the critters do.
Your garden is looking good. We spent yesterday and today doing lots of weeding. Need to weed the sweet potatoes and cucumbers then were caught up. We did some extra hilling on the corn tonight after I tilled through the rows.
We hit 100 degrees today...humidity is awful, yesterday's humidity was even worse.
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