I could spend every minute of every day playing in the garden . . til a snake comes along and I go running for the house. So far, I haven’t seen a snake in the garden. I’ve seen one on the porch and one in the driveway. We have a lot of snake season left though.
The planting is finished. We’ve planted:
- Tomatoes
- Cucumbers
- Peppers
- Celery
- Cilantro
- Parsley
- Okra
- Lima beans
- Barlotto beans (cranberry beans)
- Anasazi beans
- Potatoes
- Zucchini
- Yellow Squash
- Carrots
- Parsnips
- Radishes
- Wasabi radishes
- Seminole pumpkins
- Cantaloupe
- Watermelons
- Eggplant
- Celery
- Chard
- Purple Tomatillos
- Ginger
- Turmeric
I’m sure there are other things I can’t remember but it ended up being a little bigger than we had planned but the world got a little crazy lately, right?
I was happy to see lots of little zucchini forming.
Blurry picture but we now have little tomatoes.
I love when tomatoes pop up where we didn’t plant them. I didn’t grow tomatoes at all last year so there’s no telling where this lone tomato in the middle of one of the artichoke beds came from but it makes me smile.
I’m so hoping we have a good garden this year.
Teri says
Can’t wait to see what your harvest is like! I’m especially interested in the beans you’ve planted — are you planning to grow them for dried beans? Will like to know what each plant produces. I’ve not grown them.
Judy Laquidara says
I’ve grown all these beans before. Not for dried. I can most of them.
Rebecca says
This wasn’t the year to shrink your garden, was it? At least the timing worked out!
I like that volunteer tomato plant, too. But I’m wondering what the feathery fronds behind the asparagus are. Fennel? Dill? Fresh herbs on home-grown produce…so much yum.
Judy Laquidara says
That’s just asparagus – the ferny like green part of the plant. I’ll take a better picture of the bed today.
Liz says
I pulled out my aerogarden last week and found out I didn’t have any seed starting sponges. At the company website, they have a new top that you can get for some of the models with more seed spots (23 vs 6). So, I bought it and have some micro greens and cucumbers going. The days are warm, but the nights still can get chilly. But, by the time the cucs sprout, it will be consistently warm. I
April Reeves says
I used our compost pile for the first time to add some good soil to a mostly clay flower bed. it wasn’t completely ready but we used it anyways vs going to Lowes. I planted the flowers but didn’t put the mulch down and lots of things sprouted but I swear it looked like tomatoes has sprung up all over that bed. I was so confused but after seeing this and googling, it makes sense and I feel more confident it was indeed tomato plants. They didn’t get to stay though.
Judy Laquidara says
That’s funny! I didn’t even put compost in the asparagus bed but from our compost, we often get potatoes, cantaloupe, cucumbers. Chad even got a pumpkin vine that produced pumpkins last year.
Ranch Wife says
My mouth is watering just reading that list! You and Vince are going to live like kings!
On a side note, I found that snake you haven’t seen yet. He was almost 6′ long and taking a nap in one of my nesting boxes yesterday. I don’t color my hair, but I might have to now. 😉
Judy Laquidara says
Oh, no! I hope that’s the first and last for you this summer.
Nelle Coursey says
I bet Vince ate one of the new tomatoes and threw part of it on the ground, or there could have been one that was not good that was thrown on the ground.
Susan Nixon says
I love that you have all these great things growing. For the cranberry beans, did you just plant some of the ones you bought?
Judy Laquidara says
No. I have seeds I saved from when I grew them a couple of years ago.
Pamela Crane says
I wish I could grow zucchini. The squash vine borer gets them and I haven’t been able to control them. One volunteer that I got last year was a delicata squash. They are wonderful. They are similar to a winter squash but the skins are edible.
Judy Laquidara says
I’ve heard of those but don’t think I’ve ever grown them. If you want to try growing them again, I mix up a drop or two of Dawn, with a bit of Neem oil, fill the spray bottle with water and then just at dark, spray the squash plants and the ground around them. Just don’t do it in the sun or it will burn the plants up.