End of May Garden Pics

End of May...rain, warm days and cool evening breezes makes working in the garden a joy this time of year.

beets

carrots

cucumber seedlings...a little shaded by the sweet peas for now

weeds don't have a chance

pepper plant after being pinched back to two sets of leaves a couple weeks ago

pepper plant from above after being pinched back

Around the Garden

The landscape around the veggie garden is coming alive as well...

Native/ Pollinator Garden - nicely green after burning off earlier this spring.  In this garden we have purple coneflower, coreopsis, compass plant, blanket flower, yellow coneflower, swamp milkweed, butterfly milkweed, dill, little bluestem, switchgrass, indian grass, big bluestem, sideoats grama, blue grama, hairy grama, blue false indigo

Woodland Garden - hostas, bleeding heart, redbud (seeded), paw paw (Asimina triloba) - shade created by massive Bur Oak trees (Q. macrocarpa).

Blue False Indigo 'Purple Smoke'

Walkers Low Catmint (Nepeta racemosa) - a bee magnet.  Really nice grey-green leaves with purple flowers...low mounding woody perennial, 36" width.

Robin momma with babies in our yew hedge

Henry's Garnet Sweetspire about ready to bloom.

May Growth

Here are a few pics of the garden for mid-May...hot and dry last week...storms and a cold front to last all week.

Box 1 - radish, spinach, beets, carrots, basil, parsley, peppers, tomatoes

Box 2 - onions, garlic, spinach, basil, tomatoes

Box 3 - carrots

Box 4 - beets, spinach, peppers, sugar peas, tomatoes
 

Box 5 - carrots, sugar peas, cucumbers
 



Box 6 - onions, beets, sugar peas, cucumbers



Box 7 - garlic, onions, sugar peas, cucumbers

sweet basil

beets

carrots

large container w/ (3) Indigo Apple tomatoes and (3) sweet basil

cucumber seedlings

pruned pepper plant, leaving two sets of leaves to se if we get a fuller, stronger plant later on with better yields.

first sugar pea pod

Catalina (baby-leaf) spinach

Community and Home Garden Update

Home Garden: I planted the rest of the tomatoes in my square foot garden (raised beds) this evening.  Final tally for the spring garden is the following;

Tomatoes: (3) Black Cherry, (1) Carbon, (4) Indigo Apple, (1) San Marzano, (1) German Johnson, (1) Early Pink, (1) Green Zebra, (1) Thai Pink Egg, (1) Black Krim.

Spinach; (3) squares Merlot Nero, (1) square Catalina

Carrot: (9) sq Kuroda, (4) sq Scarlet Nantes

Beet: (5) sq Detroit Red, (3) sq Flat of Egypt, (1) sq Ruby Queen, (2) sq Early Wonder, (1) sq Swiss Chard

Sweet Peas: (16) sq Sugar Ann

Garlic: (5) sq Stiffneck

Onion: (14) sq Candy and Texas Sweet

Peppers:  (4) Fat N Sassy, (2) Giant Marconi

Radish: (1) sq Cherry Bell

Herbs: (1) Flat Leaf Parsley, (3) Sweet Basil, (3) Dill, (1) Rosemary

Community Garden:

Tomatoes: (5) Black Krim, (4) Hillbilly, (5) Carbon, (4) Green Zebra, (3) Cherokee Purple, (3) Pink Brandywine, (14) Jetstar, (1) Better Boy, (5) San Marzano, (9) S. Marzano Lungo, (12) Rutgers, (2) Tomatillo

Eggplant: (6) Japanese Long

Cole Crops: (4) Broccoli, (6) Cabbage, (4) Cauilflower

Beets: (2) sq Early Wonder, (2) sq Flat of Egypt, (2) sq Detroit Red, (1) sq Ruby Queen

Peppers: (11) Fat N Sassy, (5) Poblano, (10) Giant Marconi

Herbs: (4) Borage

beet seedlings

carrot seedlings

Sugar Ann sweet peas

radish seedlings

tomato seedlings

Early May...cold and rainy weather has passed and warm weather calls for getting stuff in the ground.  Watermelon and green beans need to go in very soon

Community Garden plot is about 100% planted...51 tomatoes, 26 peppers, 6 eggplant, 2 tomatillo, 6 squares beets, 4 broccoli, 6 cabbage, 4 cauliflower.