Hello and welcome to another #gardenjournal post where I will share a bunch of photos of our fruits and veggies, as usual, tomato planting and first mini harvest of radishes! :D If you want to participate and share your own gardening experience, HERE you can check out all the info and rules.
Let's start with potatoes that take up majority of the right side of our garden. Now that they all grown, my dad made these lifted "beds" and got rid of all the weeds. It looks so much better now!
Last year we planted arugula for the first time and all of it got eaten by some insects I guess, every leaf had many small holes but this year we decided to try again and we used some ashes on the soil - so far it's looking good! We also planted some radishes and later in this post I'll share photos of our first mini radish harvest, it all ended up in today's lunch salad!
Peas and onions are making a good progress... Today my parents were weeding the onions and I did all the watering on fruits and veggies that needed it. I don't have a photo of how onion area looks like after all the weeding was done but I'll make sure to share it in the next garden update.
Here we have some zucchini - two rows to be more specific and so far it's looking good. This is one of the veggies that pretty much always has a good season in our garden so I hope this year will be the same.
We ended up having A LOT of pre-planted tomatoes and it was time to move them to the garden soil and my mom gave some to our neighbor, her mom and our in-laws. With all that we still had so much left and after some thinking, we decided to make space and plant more in our garden.
We have spinach in three spots in our garden - my mom takes every empty spot as it comes to plant something, lol. Two kinds of cucumbers are also planted - for pickles and for eating/salads.
I am happy to report that I've noticed first raspberries forming! :) I am so glad we got them few years ago for the first time ever as every year they are doing better! (knock on wood)
Today I did some weeding on strawberry beds and noticed a few still green strawberries. We only have one bed of strawberries left which is not a lot for our family and hopefully next year we will strategically make more space for strawberries.
Here are some baby plums...
... and baby peaches!
We also have a bunch of baby pears...
... and plenty of cherries!
Next we have baby apples and just a photo of blackberries.
Mini radish harvest - we will probably plant more as it seems this is a good year for them and they don't take a lot of time to grow out. First harvests, no matter how small they are, always make me so happy!
While we were doing all the work, Bella was sleeping! I caught her waking up with a big yawn and a big stretch.
We did a lot of weeding, watering and garden maintenance these past couple days. On our to-do list there's still few things left such as planting cherry tomatoes that you can see on the left photo. They are already pre-planted but we will wait for them to grow a little bit more. On the right you can see pre-planted tomatoes in our improvised green house.
