My garden is doing great . . so far!
Cucumbers and beans are up.
Can you see the tomatillos?
Potatoes!
I can hardly wait til I’m picking and digging and having fresh produce for dinner!
My garden is doing great . . so far!
Cucumbers and beans are up.
Can you see the tomatillos?
Potatoes!
I can hardly wait til I’m picking and digging and having fresh produce for dinner!
Judy in Michigan says
It’s amazing how fast they are growing. Here we still have frost in the morning and snow the other day!! Looks like a lot of food coming your way!!
Karen says
I planted potatoes too and I’m just waiting for fresh from the garden potatoes, tomatoes, squash and cucumbers.
Karen
Alma says
Your blog is not only fun but also educational. I had never heard of tomatillo ! So now the saying “learn something new every day” holds true today. Do you use them often in your cooking? How do you use them? I read a little about them online but would like to read about your uses.
CJ says
It looks great Judy! Let’s keep our fingers crossed for a better growing season this year!
pdudgeon says
looks like everything is growing well.
Patti Tappel says
Looks great! We had our second night of frost here in Mid-Missouri. that is after having a week or two of 80 degree temps. Oh how I love Mizzouree!
Diana in TX says
Hope Mother nature is kind to all of us this year, but at least with your soaker system and well water you will be better than a lot if the rains stay away. Lately the storms seem to be dying out right before they get to us. The corn fields are looking fantastic-some have corn over a ft. high, but they are going to need rain soon. Don’t want the ground to get too dry. Gardens are a lot of work but as sure rewarding!
Hilary McDaniel says
We planted 8 varieties of cucumbers and I need help on what to do with the. How do you can them? Do I make a relish ? One year I had so many I resorted to frying them like okra. I need a canning partner. If the weather holds up, I’m going to have a lot of food all at once. I told my husband I only wanted a few plants, but he plants enough for Cox’s army.
Helen Koenigl says
I am soooooooooooo jealous!!!! Here it isn’t even tomato planting time yet! However I have tomatillo seed planted in my greenhouse – purple, pineapple and regular – can hardly wait for harvest time so I can make my favorite salsas!!!!
Am really sweating blood at this point – the company that I bought potatoes from hasn’t sent them yet (though they COULD be in my mail box waiting for me.)
Still readying my garden for planting (part of it) and planting the rest!!!!
glen in louisiana says
I thought at first that Vince was drunk when he made those rows! LOL. The hoses make the rows look VERY crooked! LOL.
glen
Helen Koenigl says
but then crooked rows are the scenic route – and you can get oh so much more in them! LOL
Judy D in WA says
It looks so great. I love that everything is coming up, all the hard work is going to pay off big time!
Doe in Mi says
Can’t believe how fast its growing down there. Looks so nice. Like #1 (Judy) said, we’re still getting frost up here in Michigan. They are worrying about the cherry and apple harvest because of the temps. being 80 so early and all the trees in blossom and now freezing temps. overnite. Michigan apples are the best so praying they will be okay.
SarahB says
I am also jealous! There might be no garden this year and last year didn’t yield much harvest so we were already out of canned produce. But if we can buy a new house fast enough I might still get the chance to get a garden in! I will have to buy nursery plants since it’s too late to start from seed here but I don’t mind that….
CindyM says
We only have two 8 ft by 10 ft raised garden beds, plus some earthboxes, so we really don’t have room for potatoes. But has anyone tried growing them in a trash can or those big potatoe bags? A friend of mine here in Colorado tried the trash can method — you layer dirt, potatoes, more dirt, more potatoes, and at harvest just dump the whole thing. But she got squat last fall. But some of those things have to work, don’t they?
Cindy B. says
I have never heard of the trash can method but I know old tires works.
Method: lay the tire flat and fill it with soil, clear out to the edges. Plant your seed potatoes. When the plants are about 8″ to a foot above the tire, add another tire and fill it with soil. Continue until your stack is around three foot tall. THEN let the plants mature. When the plant has died off … you can harvest.
Just make sure you keep the soil fully into the tire and keep the soil moist all the way to the bottom. The spuds might be out in the tire so be careful when harvesting.
Debi says
hey Judy – looks good – had to google tomatillo – what do you use them for? Loved the chicken post too – love that they know you so well!
Trudy says
Judy, I am sooo jealous of your fantastic garden! I’m hoping in a year or two we can have one like it. Having just moved onto our 60 acres( mostly wooded & a 5 acre bass pond) there’s much to do before we can have a large garden. I am, however, living vicariously thru you!
June Piper-Brandon says
Judy, It looks great. I have to say I am jealous. We have too much shade so I can’t grow anything. I saw a great idea of using a shoe hanger thing that you hang over the back of the door to plant herbs. I think I might try that, since I can hang it off the back porch and that’s where it will get sun (and hopefully the deer will stay away).
carol c says
Woo Hoo, my first zuchinni squash of the year is formed and growing in my tiny garden!!!!!!! I am so excited. But my tomatos have some kind of horned worm eating the plant, and I havent located them yet to kill them! Judy I dont know if you know but down in this area, we put out 2 gardens a year a summer and fall garden. So my areas peoples have large gardens like yours and have plants most of the year going-lol