Sunday, May 25, 2008

Gardening time!

Well I cant believe it has been over a month since I last posted anything on here! But I have a really good excuse lol and I can explain lol I have been working on my veggie/herb garden....I went from a 20'x20' to a 20'x50' garden! I know it is a lot of extra work but it is going to be so worth it! Now, I just need to learn how to can and freeze properly lol but that will come in time!

This is the first part of my garden which has corn and sugar snap peas

Then I have a whole row of garlic and then a row of cabbage and brussel sprouts and the row next to those is romaine lettuce, red leaf lettuce, green leaf lettuce, and buttercrunch or buttercrisp lettuce..cant remember the exact name.

Then next to the lettuce row I have all green peppers and some black beauty peppers, and then the next row is all green and yellow beans and I have 12 more green and yellow bean plants started inside as I ran out of plants to fill the row so I started a few more to fill it in and then I planted the first half of the row next to the beans with beets and the other half will be spinach as soon as it is up and ready.

Then I planted half a row of pickling cukes and the 2nd half with canteloupe and various melons and the 2 rows next to the cukes and melons are a Mr. Stripey tomato plant with 6 early girl tomato plants and then I have 7 super sweet 100 tomato plants next to those

then next to the tomatoes I have a whole row of radishes and then a whole row of carrots and the a row of buttercup squash and winter squash and then I have the herbs

Here are where my herbs are..sorry it is a far away shot but in there I have planted, just to name a few, chocolate mint, peppermint, angelica, lungwart, mugwart, catmint, catnip, chamomile, lavender, elacampane, lady's mantle, paprika, radicchio, and there are also 2 rows of onions, sugar baby watermelon, and zucchini and summer squash and I still have dill, parsley, sage, cilantro, rosemary, thyme, anise, and a bunch of others that I cant remember off the top of my head! lets just say it is a lot! lol but if everything grows like I hope I will be able to package all my own herbs and all my own veggies! mmmmmmm my mouth is just watering thinking about all that fresh food!!


And I was so happy to see these!!! my baby carrots have sprouted!!


and this is how big my corn is already!!! I always start my corn inside and then transplant out in the garden! it seems to work ok!


and my baby radishes have also sprouted!!! well gotta get back to the garden! Will update as the garden grows!!!