Taking a gamble on the weather, we decided to plant our garden a little earlier than ever before. Frost is always a worry, but the gamble paid off. Our garden got a jump start this year, and we are ahead of the usual schedule. With everything planted, a little TLC, sunshine, and some watering should get us to where we want to be by the end of the season. Our goal is to be able to grow enough produce to get us from one year to the next.
Hopefully we will need to buy another freezer.
Tomatoes and sweet potatoes.
Tomatoes
Beets
Despite all of the seedlings looking so healthy, thinning is a must.
Carrots
Ditto on the carrots, thin, thin, and then thin some more.
The peas are off and climbing.
Hops are doing great, as some of the vines have already grown more than 12 feet.
An interesting little thing about hop vines grown in the northern hemisphere, is that they will spiral in a clockwise direction as they move up the twine.
In the southern hemisphere they will spiral in a counter clockwise direction.
The Red onions and the Sweet white onions are doing well.
Potatoes have almost all sprouted and made their way through the hay.
Redoing the bed with a lot more organic matter seems to be working, look at thes babies.
There was one opening in one of the rows of potatoes.
But, with a little investigating, I could see that this guy was just a little behind.
The recently transplanted hop rhizomes seem to have taken, as well as the other vegetables planted in this row.
Yellow squash, or summer squash
Zucchini
Cucumbers
The new raised boxes doing their thing.
Cabbage
More cabbage, peppers, and some more tomatoes, you can never have too many tomatoes.
The green Bell Peppers were started from seed and are thriving.
Boxes full of goodness.
Eggplant, have not had to much luck with this vegetable in the past, but giving it another go.
The broccoli is already developing heads.
Cauliflower showing a lot of new growth.
Green beans getting ready to spiral up the polls.
Garlic planted last November should be bountiful.
With all of the heavy lifting done, let the games begin.
Hope you enjoyed! thebigsweed