April

Winter 2019

Garden planned, seedlings started--the hardiest already out in greenhouse!
And Friday, March 22, planted peas in the garden and lettuce and spinach in the coldframe.
Tuesday, March 26: Planted Onions and photographs seedlings.

I like to lay out all the onion sets in rows, photography them, and then cover them--but as you see, I started covering before photographing.  

6 rows: 2 red, 2 white, 2 yellow.

Last year's greenhouse re-erected and doing great.  The plants go out in the morning and in the building most nights.  

Almost all the seedling trays are up, even the parsley, but still waiting on the peppers!  Those are the two slowest germinators.

November

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October

Planted garlic today, Oct. 22.
Pulled up squash and pumpkin vines, nasturtiums vines, and zinnia, marigold, and pineapple sage stalks, which froze  over the weekend.

SEptember

Such a horrible year for the corn.  First it didn't germinate well.  That is probably what caused the problem you see in this picture.  If there's not a thick enough stand of corn, then the pollen can fly away, never landing on the corn cobs.  Therefore, not all of the eggs get fertilized, and thus not all of the kernels develop.  

 But the San Marzano tomatoes are beautiful!

 And the biggest white onions ever!

 Great Spaghetti Squash.  This is HALF of what grew from one plant!

 Kidney Beans, ready to be shelled.

August in the Garden

August

July in the Garden

Blackberries on the new bushes!

 Strawberry beds weeded, cut back, de-runnered, and woodchipped post-season.

 No apples this year!

 New asparagus plants are looking good!

 VOLES! Attacked the carrots last year.  This year started with the potatoes.  And now the beets!  Putting cayenne pepper in their burrows to discourage them.

 Success this year with eggplant!

 Sweet potatoes.  Hoping the below ground part is as great as the abundance of leaves.

 Hot peppers!

 The first early tomatoes!

 Some of the potato plants are dying already.  Maybe due to the potato bugs.  Will need to start digging some of the potatoes soon.

 San Marzano and Roma tomatoes still green, but plentiful!

 Green zucchini plant already died, and now the yellow zucchini looks bad.  Just too hot and dry this summer??  But we have harvested a lot of zucchinis already.

 Terrible cucumber year.  Again, wonder if it's the heat.  No pickles this year!

 Acorn squash and pumpkins doing well!

 Onions about ready to harvest!

 Beans!  Lots of beans!

 The herb garden looks great.

 First year to grow curly kale, my new favorite veggie for salads.

 Pulled up the pea pods when they were done.  Planted pole beans along the trellis, and shell beans along the outside of bed 1.

 End of July harvest day...potatoes, onions, corn (not very good), beans, tomatoes, beets, and herbs.