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.

April progress

The garden as survived recent severe weather (wind, rain, hail) and things are coming along nicely.  Severe thunderstorms are forecasted for tomorrow (fingers crossed).  I hedged a bit and planted around 30 tomato plants at the community garden, as well as additional spinach, beets carrots, parsley, basil, and cucumbers this afternoon (after the clouds, rain, and thunder stopped).

kuroda carrot seedlings coming up

garlic transplants doing well

sugar ann peas growing with tendrils

beet seedlings putting on new leaves

potting up tomato plants (nice thick stems and vigorous root systems)

Garden Progress

Warm weather has been kind to the garden...however, there is a freeze in the forecast for next Monday night.

Beet seedlings

garlic and onions

Sugar Ann Peas

Random Findings

Found a trifecta of items while screening compost this evening for a new raised bed.  I think my three year old probably lost the ring while helping with the compost pile last year.  Funny thing, she lost it again within about 30 seconds of finding it...found it before the sun went down...whew.

1945 wheat penny, green marble, princess ring

Early April Tasks

Took advantage of the warm weather today and got some fun stuff done at the community garden.

gave the existing hive some water...bees drinking from cotton fabric draped in a bowl of clean water

built my first hive bodies and gave them three coats of varnish...bees to arrive in a few weeks...Ross Murphy is my bee expert with about 20 years of experience.

old honeycomb that can either be harvested or used to start a new hive

4x8 raised bed in the community garden...planted my broccoli, cauliflower, and cabbage seedlings and seeded six squares of Sugar Ann sweet peas and six+ squares of several types of beets (Early Wonder, Flat of Egypt, Detroit Red, Ruby Queen)