Garden of Eatin'

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.

Got out into the garden today and prepped the back left square as best I could (tons of root balls and rocks and chunks of glass), and planted the strawberries, and put the fence up. Sadie (dog) was very put out that we did that to her, but considering she’s been coming in with muddy paws every day, I’m not losing my garden to her!

Here’s the before:

And the after, not a lot of difference, except in the 2nd picture you can see the back square that the strawberries are not in. I had planned on that one being tomatoes and strawberries, but the strawberries need more room then I realized.

Beautiful day – 70 degrees! It was 73 inside last I checked. The only downside is the awful sunburn I got – I’m bright, almost fluorescent, red. Oops.