Sunday, May 4, 2008

Blackberries

I planted 5 or 6 blackberry bushes that I got from my mom in Spring 2007. Here they are in Spring 2008. Hopefully we'll get some fruit this year!

Monday, April 21, 2008

Veggie Bed

Here's the veggie bed that Chris and I built to (hopefully) fix the drainage problem caused by our sloping veggie garden.

Garlic

I planted about a dozen or so garlic cloves (just regular ones I bought in the produce section of Walmart) last fall. They are looking great, and I can't wait to harvest them this fall!

Strawberry 'Fort Laramie'

I planted 64 plants in April 2007. They have grown very well, and I still need to spend some time plucking more of them out of the rest of the garden, as they have wandered. They are ever-bearing, and this will be their first year producing fruit.

White Onions

I planted 80 white onion sets (I think?) in early April. They are coming along nicely!

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

2008 Planting Season

OK, now that I'm all caught up by transferring stuff about last year's garden to this site, I'm ready to go with this year's harvest. We now have one big raised garden bed, which I used as a means to flatted our quite sloped veggie garden. The water would run off and puddle too much last year, so hopefully this will fix some watering issues. So far, I've only planted peas ('Alaska'), white onions, and a few herbs (I've started a separate herb garden), but I've got a few more things like lettuce, peppers, tomatoes, etc. growing from seed inside, and they'll hopefully be ready to transplant soon. Less than a month till I really start planting big-time!

Birdhouse Gourds

This post is from September 2, 2007.

I pretty much let these take over one large corner of the veggie garden. I have tons of gourds, I think at least half a dozen of which will end up big enough to become birdhouses.

Pumpkin Harvest!

This post was from August 16, 2007:
Here's the first of our long-awaited-for pumpkins! It's about 9 lbs. We love the scarring--it's so cool. We've got about 15 more pumpkins on the vine currently. YAY!

Pumpkins

This post was from July 23, 2007: This is currently our largest pumpkin, at about 6" in diameter. I hope it makes it, because it's beautiful--nice and round, with no blemishes.

Last Year's Garden

Since I've started this veggie garden blog, I'm going to pull some posts from last year's regular garden blog that really belong here.

Posted July 16, 2007:
Here's your first look at our veggie garden! It's doing great, and we only wish we'd planted more things. This year we planted watermelon, red and white bell peppers, 9 tomato plants (roma, cherry, and beefsteak), basil, green onions, bush beans, pole beans, cucumbers, red and yellow corn, pod and snap peas (they're done for the season already, and we've uprooted them), cilantro, serrano peppers, blueberries, ornamental gourds, birdhouse gourds, strawberries, blackberries, and pumpkins. Next year we hope to lay it out better, flatted it out, and add raised beds built from scrap lumber from neighboring houses.

Crazy pumpkins, with a trellis added to keep them off of the lawn, blackberries (between the pumpkins and the fence) and the strawberries.
Chris's corn is nearing 4' tall! The trellis to the left of the corn holds cukes and beans, and the low patches to the right of the corn are strawberries, with gourds behind them near the black compost bin. In the bottom right corner is the edge of the pumpkins.

The tiny plant on the left near the grass is watermelon. The big bushy guys are tomatoes. Cukes/beans are on the trellis, and peppers, basil, and pole beans are in front of the tomatoes.
Here's a look at the tomatoes, beans, cucumbers, and corn. I need to put in more pole beans to fill up this trellis. The bare patch near the fence was where the peas were until recently.
Tomatoes galore! You can see the white bell peppers in front of the tomatoes, with the basil in front of that and the watermelon to the left.