The Great Garden Grocery Store

 These are all the pictures of the veggies in June.  I walk out to the gardens now, and wow, what a difference!

jalepano

Big Beef tomato

tomato tree

We lost the Fourth of July plant.

Beefsteak gone also

Hillbilly

Tom's Tomato

Sun sugar

blackberries

bell peppers

Zucchini and yellow squash

one potato plant with manure and new dirt

gourds and little pumpkins

cukes

okra

zinnias and cucumbers

potatoes

potatoes

Swiss chard

cucumbers

Sun sugar

zucchini

more zucchini

radishes

Newest garden filled with pumpkin plants and gourds.

Roma

cucumber

blackberries

raspberries

zucchini

pepper

cucumber

cucumber

bush beans

dead asparagus bed

cucumber

Raised Bed Progress

God is watering for me this morning, so I have a chance to catch up on the laundry, blogs, dusting, and a nap!

This year, we have tomato trees and Tom's large tomato planted against the 4x4 posts for support. In the remaining beds, there is an assortment of flowers for pollinators and, hopefully, the cutting garden.  And there might be an elephant ear thrown in there.

Tomatoes, basil, and strawberries fill out this bed.

Three kinds of peppers and two kinds of radishes seem to be good raised bed mates.

Two zucchini plants are producing, and one is still thinking about it.  The longneck yellow squash we had to replant is doing amazing.  Soon it will be time to prune some out to give the healthier, bigger ones room to grow...I dislike that part.  I want them all to be able to grow.

The cucumbers are slowly coming along.  I planted a row one week, and another row of plants a week later, and then sometime later I planted seeds, so we should get cucumbers the rest of the summer as soon as it is time to pick.  We should be able to harvest three different varieties.

They are almost to the top of the trellis, ready to come over.

Seems like we are way behind last year.  The weather and our schedules have put a little bump in the road.

But yesterday we planted another bed of potatoes and a bed of beans.

Now I get to go back to the never, ever, ending job of weeding.  We are going to have the best compost in a year or two!

A Tater-Totin', Sign-Painting', Wammy and Pappy Kind Of Day

The days started out with Sam telling Bruce that he really did want ot go to our house because gardening was boring.  So we gave the gloves and clippers and headed to the potato bed.

They worked really hard cutting the stems or haulms off.

Mia worked on one end of the bed while Sam worked on the other.

We filled Pappy's blue wheelbarrow full to overflowing.

The contest... finds the biggest, the smallest, and a heart-shaped potato.

Sam found a pretty big one!

Mia pulled out a whopper.

That is the pile I gathered from my side of the bed.

Clean-up consisted of dumping the wheelbarrow into the compost bin.

Putting the tools back where we found them.

Pulling my little wheelbarrow to Pappy for a pic.

They look like pretty happy farmers.

rinseing

washing and sorting

We called that one the heart-shaped, but Sam called it the butt crack.

Look at the face; of course he did!

Still washing and sorting.

After all that garden work, I asked them if they could make me a sign for the new garden we planted in the way back.  They were all over it!

The sign reads Hillybilly Hideaway Garden.

A little snack and a game.

We dug 40 pounds of potatoes from that bed.  And we will be planting more!

BY THE WAY...Sam left saying that gardening was fun today.