Yesterday evening I took a few more pictures of the garden. I feel like everything is going way too slowly but I’m getting a few cucumbers, a few tomatoes, there are some peppers to be picked tomorrow. I’ve cooked some yellow squash. All my zucchini seems to only be producing male flowers. The walking onions I planted are not doing great but they are surviving. This isn’t a great time of the year for them.
I have three eggplants. There are quite a few small eggplants on them and lots of blossoms so I’m hopeful we’ll have a lot of eggplants.
This is horseradish. I have no idea if it’s going to produce horseradish . . I can only hope.
This is one of the rhubarbs that’s growing in the asparagus bed. All the rhubarb is doing so good.
The elderberries are blooming! I can’t decide if I want to cut some of the flowers and use them for various recipes or if I’d rather let them make berries this first year. Because I have so much canning to get done, I’m leaning towards letting them make berries this year.
I love my little garden!
Cody says
Judy have you ever planted horseradish before? I’ve never tried it in grow bags, I’ve always had a bed for it, you want the roots to get as big as possible and when you harvest the roots, just replant the tops. I have a friend who always said that the time to harvest horse radish is in months with an r in them. If I didn’t get to it in the spring, I waited until fall. Never regretted it.
judy.blog@gmail.com says
I grew it in Texas but it should do better here (not so hot and dry). I planted it in bags because I’m trying to keep it from taking over the county. 🙂 We’ll see. It isn’t one of those things we eat quarts and quarts of but we’ll see. I may have to get Vince to build a raised bed just for it and line it something that will hopefully keep the roots contained.
Susan says
Judy, Your garden looks great!! It’s so far ahead of mine in SE Iowa. You are lucky to be getting produce already, it sounds delicious. I plant and cross my fingers that I get any vegetables!! I’m sure your soil is better than ours. Enjoy all that comes your way from your garden.
judy.blog@gmail.com says
Ours is all raised beds. Our soil here is almost totally rock but we filled the raised beds with Kellogg’s raised bed soil, black cow compost and about 40 wheel barrows of compost from our neighbor. This isn’t the best garden I’ve had but we were so late getting it planted because of late cold snaps and now our nights are in the upper 70’s. Not gread for tomatoes for sure.
Sara Fridley says
A lush garden – yay!!! The horse radish intrigues me. Our neighbors (when I was a kid) grew it, and then ground it. The whole neighborhood could smell it when they ground it outside. But it was delicious!! And they shared it with friends. I’m looking forward to the first fresh tomatoes to show up in the local farm stand. I’ve given up growing my own, but still love them.
Kathleen -Robin says
I am impressed with how your garden is growing. Ours in the south west part of B.C. Canada is very slow this year. the farm that grows corn on the cob usually has some ready by now they are saying not till the middle to the end of July. Very late every thing this spring. Mind you it has not felt like spring at all cold and a lot of rain. Not at all pleasant.