Garden of Eatin'

Transplanted roma and beefsteak tomatoes, all the herbs, broccoli, cauliflower, peppers, and onions. Went ahead and transplanted the lettuce. The corn didn’t need as much space as I thought so I put the tomatoes over by it, better soil.
Direct sowed: Zucchini, squash, beets, carrots, corn, rosemary, spinach.
Covered with grass clippings: the larger plants. I was so impressed with the grass! I had a huge pile of clippings and I started moving some into the wheelbarrow and steam was just pouring off it! I touched it and it was hot, like really hot! Adding more grass to the compost…….

Still need to: plant the watermelon and pumpkins, which will be planted outside the garden, in the grassy area past the fence in this picture….there’s no room for it inside the fence, not and have it stay mostly sunny. Also still need to get the cucumbers, and plant them inthe corner by the corn and taters, to grow up the fence. Oh, and when the early girl tomatoes are big enough, transplant them.

I’m not sure I did this right, but here’s the peas and beans transplanted into the garden. It was hard freaking work getting the ground ready and trellis built. The varieties of plants I got get 6′ tall and heavy so I wanted to make it as strong as possible. Here’s to hoping I did well!

I never actually watched that show…

Tried to kill myself getting the taters planted today, but they’re in the ground and I’m a little worse for the wear.

Here’s my absolutely adorable youngest helper.

The 3 trays that are just about ready to go outside. The other 2′s plants are still too little.

Inside the triangle is the taters, it looks like a little graveyard with tiny corpse mounds and popsicle stick headstones. Behind the taters, the corn will be planted, and just this side of the 3 horizontal logs will be the trellis and peas/beans.

Strawberry bed.

Strawberry bed, closer. Thar be green in that there garden! Arrrr!

I’m just amazed how much better these are doing then my last attempt at gardening in Idaho (the time before that I was successful, but again, we were in Oregon, though North-East).

Roma and beefsteak tomatoes, broccoli, snow pea, green beans and sugar snap peas

Garlic, thyme, basil, broccoli, and cauliflower


Green pepper, roma & beefsteak tomatoes, and cauliflower

Early girl tomato, spinach, lettuce, oregano, asparagus, white onion, parsley, and chives

Basil, thyme, broccoli, white onion, and cauliflower

I have a lot of each, only the biggest and strongest will end up in the garden. I figured if I started out with 10x more then I actually need, I might get a few to actually produce.

The strawberries survived the freezing last night. They’re uncovered now (10 minutes after I uncovered them, it started to hail pea sized ice ball of course, I hope they are ok from that). I’ll cover them up again at night until Tuesday morning.