First Salad

Mid May salad.  Delicious spinach and radishes!! 

Mother's Day

Today we planted a new tree!  Likely it will die.  It is a tradition to buy some nice plants for Mother's Day so we are giving it a go... It is a Purple Fountain Beech.

The garden is coming along nicely.

 Zucchini popping it's head above ground.

Pole beans exploring Hazel's teepee.

 Taters seem to be unaffected by the great flood of April...

 Peas please

 Carrots...the slowest growing vegetable on Earth. Better be worth it.

 Onions and garlic...the sexy veggies!

 Green beans catching some sun

 Spinach.  I'm going to look like Popeye soon.

 Sweet onions and chives.  Mmmm chivey

First harvest!!!

Earth Day

Celebrated Earth Day in the garden!

Today we planted all the rest of our seeds for this year.

In the new "pumpkin patch" we have:

Butternut Squash - 7-10 days to germination, 85 days to harvest.
Zucchini - 10-14 days to germination, 57 days to harvest.
Acorn Squash - 10-14 days to germination, 57 days to harvest.
Amish Pie Pumpkins - 7-10 days to germination, 90-105 days to harvest.
Big Max Pumpkins - 7-10 days to germination, 120 days to harvest.
Sweet Sugar Pie Pumpkins - 7-14 days to germination, 100 days to harvest.
Glowing White Jack-O-Lantern -  7-14 days to germination, 95 days to harvest.

We started two garden experiments today as well. The first is Hazel's "teepee".  This consists of bamboo poles tied together in a teepee shape.  Kentucky Blue pole beans (60 days to harvest) are planted at the base of each pole.  

The second experiment is call the three sisters.   We planted corn on a large mound.  After the corn sprouts, pole beans will be planted to climb the corn stalks.  Finally, squash is planted to occupy the space at the base of the corn plants.  Stage 1 - Sweet Corn (7-10 days to germination, 82 days to harvest) complete!

In the main garden we planted:
Sugar Daddy Peas - 7-14 days to germination, 65 days to harvest
Watermelon - Who knows???.lost seed packet!
Cucumber - See Above
Eggplant - Still Missing...
Goldenwax Green beans 7-14 days to germination, 50 days to harvest
Provider Green beans  7-14 days to germination,55 days to harvest


How did we get so much done with a crazy toddler running around??  Water + Bucket = hours of entertainment!!

April 6, 2012

Mommy and the kids planted the rest of the "salad" box today.
Bloomsdale Long Standing Spinach (seedlings in 1-2 weeks, salad ready in 48 days)
Lettuce (ditto)
Cherry Belle Radishes (seedlings in 4-6 days, 22 days to harvest!)

FLOOD!!

Forgot to turn off the sprinklers and  flooded all my potatoes!!  Will have to do some excavating to access the damage.  Doh!

April, 1 2012

Early bloomers!  Thanks to all the sunny days we've been having, flowers are popping up everywhere.  Hard to believe snow is coming...

March 30, 2012

Cilantro and Rosemary today!

March 28, 2012

We found some Basil and Oregano popping up in the window garden! 

March 23 2012

Zach made me a box for our "salad veggies"!  The vision is that it will be filled with lettuce, spinach, radishes, and green onions.  Today I planted the green onion seeds.  I was anxious to get them in since they take 120 days. 

I also planted an indoor herb window garden with oregano, cilantro, basil, and rosemary. 

Can't wait to start clipping fresh basil! 

Potential

Every Spring is the same hopeful feeling.  Looking at the tidy dirt piles and imagining something to come. 

March 22 2012

 Sawyer "helping" plant potatoes

Potatoes in the ground!
From front to back:  Rose Fin Apple (110 days), Russet Burbank (Early-Mid Season), Sangre Red (80 days), Yellow Fin (90 days)

Also planted garlic for the first time.  Hopefully we will be warding off vampires in mid to late summer. 

Texas Sweet Onions were planted today as well.  Hopefully we will be warding off Amanda in mid to late summer...

First Fruits of Labor

Actually, this labor was done two years ago.  Gotta love strawberries!  Keep coming back and multiplying.

Hopefully this year we can get some fruit before the birds.

March 21 2012

Brought home and spread a truckload of manure today.  Thanks Huffmans!  Hazel loved riding the horses.  Tilled the manure into the new garden areas.  Tilled all of the old beds.  Ready for taters and onions!

March 20th 2012

Carrots are in the ground!  Burpee Danvers 126.  75 days until maturity.  How many days until Amanda's maturity?