Garden Update- June 8th

Everything is continuing to grow in the garden.  It is amazing how quickly the plants mature at this point.   We were able to harvest our first peas today and one Zucchini has a flower! 

Front Beneficial Flower Bed

BED# 1- (pictured below) Peas, Asparagus & Parsley

Peas ready to pick!  They should be harvested every 1 to 3 days to get peak quality.  Today we picked about 1 cup of peas and then put them in the freezer.  You can also eat them right away or store them in the refrigerator.

Caterpillar of Monarch Butterfly (munching on our Parsley)

BED# 2- (pictured below) 
Broccoli, Cauliflower, (3 Sisters: Corn, Winter Squash & Pole Beans) Peas.

Plants have almost outgrown the Row Cover

BED# 3- (pictured below) 
Onions, Carrots, Bush Beans and Summer Squash

BED# 4- (pictured below) 
Zucchini, Peppers, Eggplant and Cucumbers.

Front left Zucchini is starting to flower!

Garden Update- June 1st

 Everything is growing so quickly.  The peas are producing pods now and they have reached the top of the vertical frame!

BED# 1- (pictured below) Peas, Asparagus & Parsley



















BED #2- (pictured below) Corn getting taller!

Broccoli & Cauliflower in front- Corn and Squash behind

 Pots on deck & Flower Beds (pictured below)

Tomato plant doubled in size in 1 week!

(pictured below) Sunflowers in back row- Wildflower mix next row forward- Zinnias in front. 

Garden Update-May 25th

A quick picture update of the gardening growing!

BED #1- (pictured above) Peas starting to produce pods! 

BED #2- (pictured above) Broccoli & Cauliflower getting taller.  Winter Squash and Corn growing behind them.  Peas continuing to grow!

 BED #3- (pictured above) Onions, Bush Beans & Summer Squash.

BED #4- (pictured above) Zucchini, Peppers, Eggplant & Cucumbers.

Flower beds- (pictured above) Seeds starting to grow. 

Garden Update- from May 22nd

Just a quick update with some earlier pictures from April and those taken on May 22nd of the plants growing in the garden.  Its always fun to watch your plants growing!  These pictures are a great way to capture the changes that take place.

BED #1: Peas, Asparagus & Parsley (Tomatoes to follow Peas)

April- Parsley seedlings and Asparagus just starting to grow

May 22nd- Parsley growing with the Asparagus (proof that companion planting works!)

May 22nd- Parsley, Asparagus and Peas.  Happy Happy Happy!

May 22nd- Flowers starting to bloom on peas (planted March 17th)

BED #2: Peas, Broccoli and Cauliflower 
(Beans, Corn Winter Squash & Tomatoes to come)

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April 29th Broccoli & Cauliflower seedlings planted

May 22nd- Broccoli & Cauliflower have tripled in size!

BED #3: Onions, Carrots, Peas (Beans, Carrots & Summer Squash to be planted)

April 29th-Peas & Onions

May 22nd- Peas & Onions

 BED #4: Zucchini, Peppers, Eggplant & Cucumbers 

May 19th- Just planted this bed!

Flower Beds with Beneficial Plants:

Seedlings just starting to emerge

2013 Garden Expansion

Below you can see the most current updates to the garden.  We decided to add some decorative touches this year so that it looked more like a garden and less like "giant dog pin" in the yard.  It started with buying 9 Gothic fence posts to add some detail.  Then our amazing neighbor had extra landscape stones and let us have them.  We decided to make 2 flower beds which will be planted to attract beneficial insects.  We added compost to the beds and I moved the birdbath, birdhouse and some shepherds hooks from the front yard to the new flower beds.  The last step was to add some stepping stones and mulch between the raised beds.

Garden expanded for 2013.  Bed #1 starts on the left.

The compost tumblers are in constant need of carbon materials to balance out the nitrogen (mostly our kitchen scraps).  We had leaves left in our garden from last fall so I decided to rake them up and move them closer to the compost so I could add them easily to the tumblers. These stakes and the chicken wire are recycled from our very first 4 x 4 garden!  Things have certainly expanded since then.

Leaf pile

The compost tumblers are in constant need of carbon materials to balance out the nitrogen (mostly our kitchen scraps).  We had leaves left in our garden from last fall so I decided to rake them up and move them closer to the compost so I could add them easily to the tumblers. These stakes and the chicken wire are recycled from our very first 4 x 4 garden!  Things have certainly expanded since then. 

Compost tumblers

Bed #1 planted with- (3) Parsley, (4) 2yr. Asparagus crowns, (25) 1 yr. Jersey Supreme Asparagus, and (16) Peas. 
Bed #2 planted with- (16) Peas.  More plants to follow.

New cedar raised beds (#1and #2)

Asparagus & Parsley

(4) 2 yr. Asparagus and (3) Parsley

1 yr. Asparagus starting to grow

Bed #3 planted with- (32) White Onions, (64) Stuttgart Yellow Onions, (32) Red Onions and (16) Peas. More plants to follow. 
Bed #4 planted with- (16) Peas. More plants to follow.

2 year old pine raised beds (#3 and #4)

Peas

Onion tops with peas in the background

Onions

Center of the garden ready for future watermelon plants.

Stepping stones

Stepping stones between raised beds