Garden of Eatin'

As promised, here’s some pictures of the garden’s progress.

Potatoes. In front (bottom) are the 3 russets from organic store bought potatoes. The rest are reds from seed potatoes. I need to build the dirt up on each plant…with no experience I’m not exactly sure of the process, but apparently if you cover with dirt and leave just a couple inches of leaves out, the taters will grow better. Since they have clay soil to fight with after about 6 inches down, I might as well try anything that will safely give a better yield.

Strawberry patch is coming along well, almost all the plants have blooms on them.

Carrots( a very small portion of them)…will need to thin these soon.

Corn (very small potion)

The grapes

“Prizewinner Hybrid” giant pumpkin sprout

The broccoli is trying to take over!

So is the zucchini!

Thyme

Parsley

Lettuce

I haven’t succumbed from the heat yet. The garden hasn’t either. It’s coming along quite well actually, everything is sprouted and doing well except the cucumbers, who I think just need more time. The only “problem” is there’s something eating little bits out of maybe half the plants. So to fight fire with fire, I spread out the nematodes I bought from Territorial Seed and watered super well yesterday evening. Hopefully they’ll catch and kill the little buggers before they get to my plants.

Here’s the strawberry patch. All the larger plants have started blooming, which I’ve pinched off the first blooms in hopes it”ll encourage them to grow bigger first.

Lettuce. My experiment with transplanting tiny seedlings. It seriously slowed their growth and I won’t do it again, but they are growing well now!

Peas are growing very well, but don’t want to grow UP. Next time I’ll do the trellis how I originally wanted, which includes vertical twine!

Short row of white radishes.

Cauliflower plants that I honestly thought wouldn’t make it from severe transplant shock.

Broccoli, lots and lots!

Close up of a broccoli plant

One of my new grape plants

My new blueberry plants, waiting to get transplanted.

All 3 grape plants waiting to be put in the ground.

The largest potato plant currently. One of the organic russets I bought from the store. The seed potatoes aren’t growing nearly as fast, but they are growing.

Some of the corn

Chris’ cousin gave us 3 soaker hoses when he moved and I finally tried them out. I didn’t have enough to do the entire garden so I did some research on soaker hoses and watering methods to make sure it was worth buying more (apparently it is, most pages I read on watering suggest to use the soaker method to keep the leaves dry so as to not invite diseases). So off to Lowes we went.

I got 2 75′ soaker hoses and some landscape stakes to hold the hose in place, plus a few other little things, looked at a BBQ/smoker that we’d like to have, then found the grape and berry plants. Dammit. They were only like $6.50 each and they were big plants, so I had to try. I got 3 grapes and 2 blueberry and they’ll be planted tomorrow.

I hopped up on the roof tonight to take a picture from above. I have got to get those evil bushes out of there!

Oh, I almost forgot, my first zucchini appeared in the garden today! I was happy to see the little guy =)