It has been very busy here preparing and planting the garden.....So, I snapped a few pictures this past week and again today and here is what the garden has done since we put it in... cabbage on silver plastic to keep the heat down for production. ( photo / image / picture from carolyn's Garden ) peas in blossom two weeks ago. this week I have picked about 20 pounds of snow peas and 40 pounds of shelling peas. ( photo / image / picture from carolyn's Garden ) shelling peas ( photo / image / picture from carolyn's Garden ) broccoli ( photo / image / picture from carolyn's Garden ) Tomatoes after we planted them in May. ( photo / image / picture from carolyn's Garden ) The same patch about three weeks later. ( photo / image / picture from carolyn's Garden ) Golden Dwarf Gypsy tomato. Beautiful foliage. ( photo / image / picture from carolyn's Garden ) Peppers ( photo / image / picture from carolyn's Garden ) blueberries we planted last year. ( photo / image / picture from carolyn's Garden ) grapes in bloom. they smell divine. I was amazed when I noticed them. I couldn't find anything blooming and here it was the grapes. ( photo / image / picture from carolyn's Garden ) Grapes ( photo / image / picture from carolyn's Garden )
After the hard winter and difficult weather you had this spring, you definitely deserve a bountiful, growing garden!
I am exhausted just thinking about all the work you have done and still will do. Everything looks very tasty.
Jane...I so appreciate the heat. the cold was cold this past Winter...that lasted until almost Summer. Thanks Toni. Kevin helps a lot. Sometimes I get Adrian to help with whatever uses an engine... Donna, You do more than me for amazing...I just work. Nothing fancy here.
Looking good Carolyn! I was smelling something sweet on my dog walk this morning and couldn't figure out where it was coming from. Maybe it was the grape vines! I'm liking the looks of those more sturdy tomato cages ... where do you buy those? Great to be out in the gardens again, isn't it?
Carolyn--Your garden looks verdant! growing! lush! productive! bountiful! Man oh man what a beautiful sight!
Netty, We buy a roll of concrete reenforcing wire and cut it with bolt cutters, flip over each section and roll it from one side to the next making a cylinder and zip tie them together. then poke the "legs" into the ground. there is a method to the nadness. It is hard work, but not difficult. Unrolling the wire is almost the hardest part. the end of the roll is very resistant to being unrolled. It is also very dirty work. and you have to be careful not to cut or scrape yourself on the cuts as they are very sharp. We made another 30 last night for the garden. A 150' roll makes about 30 cages. with two people, once you get a rhythm going it goes fairy fast. Maybe it takes about 2 hours to get them done, but they last for a long time. This is the second roll of wire that we made cages with in the past week. I went to my moms and put their garden in and then we made cages for there, too. Thanks Cayuga Morning! it is hot sweaty and grueling to get to this point, but well worth the effort.
Oh, how could I miss those gorgeous fruit and veggies? And about 60 pounds of Peas? OMG it must be raining peas in Ohio :-D . Super Job Carolyn.
Kildale.. I think we must plant more peas than you? enjoy your peas as many as you can pick! Thanks GF... I picked peas again today... a 5 gallon bucket of snow peas and a 5 gallon pail of shelling peas. And 1/2 bu of greenbeans out of the high tunnel...
Hi Carolyn,..its spectacular to see how much you have done and everything looking healthy,..hard to believe after all your snow and snow wheels you posted,.. that produce is thriving.
wow loveing your garden. quit a differance from ohio to Michigan. It was way too wet to do any gardening in May. I probably got my things in last week. My peas are just poping thru. Do you Grow everything under that plastic? I'm guessing it keeps in the moisture. I use a soaker hose.
Hi Philip...good to see you here. I am so glad you are feeling better. Thanks, the snow rollers are thankfully a memory. Petunia, everything you saw was from outside. The only think I picked today out of the tunnels was 10 pounds of green beans and 8 quarts of tomatoes. We live on what used to be a gravel "mine". My FIL hauled load after load after load as fill for area construction sites. It is now about 30 feet lower than it used to be, it drains very well, but it is also all on a slope and we have lots of torrential down pours which floods our driveway and sometimes washes away our garden in areas. We sometimes plant in the mud and really cold weather to get early crops. We also take advantage of low tunnel "technology" to plant early and harvest early, too. I have zucchini that I am picking. We planted it out in April and covered it with steel hoop frames and a poly fabric row cover weighted down and not removed until the weather warmed up. We try to have the peas planted by St Patricks day (but not this year the ground was still frozen) , or as early as we can get them planted.
