The Garden – Week 2
Everything is still kind of starting off this week.
We’ve had a lot of rain and very little warm weather, so hopefully when the sun comes back, everything will just explode.
There’s corn popping up, slowly.
No peas yet, but there’s a few green beans.
Radishes have been up for a while.
And onions popped up today!
The potato garbage can experiment is just about full of dirt. There are three plants (as you can see) that are taller than the others. So, they’re up out of the dirt in this picture and the others are just about to break the surface. (In fact, I took these pictures on Tuesday, and Wednesday morning they were all above the surface.) There are actually 12 potato plants growing right now.
Lettuce has started growing.
And my seedlings are just growing and growing. I can’t wait to plant them in the big garden.
I purchased the shoe sleeve for the herb garden I’m going to container grow. I’m just waiting for the seedlings to get big enough to transplant.
I also have strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, blackberries, and grape bushes that have been planted. On top of that, my apple tree is full of baby apples!
How is your garden coming?
Hallee
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i finally got our garden planted now hopefully we don’t get a frost, about 2 weeks left before we are really out of danger. I have one small hot pepper growing and tons of flowers on my strawberry plants that still need a home. I ran out of room….and told my husband I need a bigger garden!
Awesome growth Hallee!! My apple tree isn’t nearly as hearty as yours. :( Probably because it is accidentally growing from an appleseed Ben “planted” in my Lime Tree container. LOL. I need to get it transplanted very soon.
Our zuchini are positively *thriving* this year. I don’t know what I did differently (beyond the fact that we have had strange Hot/Wet/Hot/Wet weather. No amtter what the cause, I have over 30 zuchinis on the plants right now!! I can’t wait to start harvesting. :) Do you know of a way to freeze/preserve zuchini?
Oh and we have green onions big enough to eat already!! Yay. :)
I have a zucchini bread and butter pickle recipe that has tumeric as a seasoning that is amazing – I slice the zucchinis and the onion very thin with my mandolin – and use it as a hot dog topping.
I also have a zucchini and carrot sweet relish that is good.
I canned zucchini chunks, but they didn’t do well.
I made an Italian zucchini soup (http://www.halleethehomemaker.com/2009/08/zucchini-tomato-italian-soup/) that was heavenly. Add a can of tomato paste to it and you had a fantastic sauce. I canned several quarts of that.
I was not happy with the cubed zucchni I froze – it was very mushy when I served it. However, the shredded zucchini that I froze in 2-cup increments has been wonderful for use in recipes.
Home grown onions have SO MUCH flavor.
Oh, thank you so much for the soup recipe!! That is something that will be perfect for our family (we love defrosting soup on nights when I work late). Yay!!!!!
WOW I have peas, pumpkin, and sunflower growing. My pumpkins are doing the best. Peas have only been up a few days. Sunflowers are doing great. Hoping once we get some sun that they will all really take off.
Oh no, did I wait to long to plant Halloween pumpkins?
This is what I found: Pumpkins are a warm-season annual that require from 90 to 120 frost-free days to reach harvest. Sow pumpkins in the garden in spring when all danger of frost has passed and the soil temperature has reached 65°F and night air temperatures are above 55°F. In cool-summer regions grow smaller varieties. Pumpkins can be started indoors 2 to 3 weeks before the average last frost date in spring; transplant them into the garden 2 to 3 weeks after the last frost.
http://www.harvestwizard.com/2009/03/how_to_grow_pumpkin.html
Sara my pumpkins are from last years crop. We keep our halloween pumpkins and don’t cut them then after halloween we throw them back in the garden in “their” spot and let them come up the next year.
Awesome idea Michelle!!