Wednesday, June 8, 2016

Vegetable Early June


The vegetable garden, June 4. Peas growing in the same bed with broccoli and recently planted romaine lettuce. I had so many lettuce starts that I plunked them into nearly every bed. The next bed is green beans and a spot for upcoming chard seedlings. Third row has eggplant, peppers, and a basil patch. The following two rows are Red Pearl grape tomatoes (same as last year and magnificent), five Speckled Roman paste tomato plants, and four heirloom types that includes Striped German and Brandywine and two others I cannot recall. Our starts were from Shady Acres Herb Farm or started in our own greenhouse.



The curving garlic bed is new this year (well, tilled last November). The garlic is doing well although a little tightly planted. Doing really well is the Chesnok Red -a Purple Stripe variety. This one is said to do very well but I couldn't have said that in the past.



Here are our potatoes -five varieties including russets, golds and reds. They grow several inches each day. I am about to add compost to "hill up" inside the framed bed. More garlic to the right, and French Shallots as well. To the left is our herb bed that includes basil, dill, cilantro, parsley, thyme, oregano, arugula and cutting lettuce. I'm anticipating a productive garden and feel better about its organization over last year. When the garlic is harvested around late June, early July, I will add our late summer-early fall crops of broccoli, cauliflower, brussel sprouts, and kale. In the background are cucumbers in pots, a remnant bed of dead nettle and common milkweed, and the curving hedge of hydrangea that we transplanted from the south side of the house last year.


4 comments:

  1. That is a magnificent garden! Assume you freeze and/or can a significant amount for winter, and that it keeps you pretty busy thru the summer. Makes mine look like it belongs with a dollhouse! enjoy.

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    1. Thank you. We do a little canning of tomatoes and some freezing too. We pickle the garlic scapes, the potatoes and garlic stores, and the rest we eat up!

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  2. I agree with Webb...it is a magnificent garden! I'm going to save this post to inspire me with what is possible (with hard work and talent)...for when we downsize to a property that gets enough sun for a vegetable/herb garden. Leslie in Oregon

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    1. I don't know about talent, but I do know how I want it to work (and it does take work). Goo luck!

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