Its been a very late spring/summer season. We've had the garden in and things are looking pretty good. I just hope the cold weather doesn't hit too soon so we'll be able to reap what we planted. Here are the toms, we have about 6 rows. Then we have 4 black peppers. These will be new to me this year. I know their quit small yet, I wonder if epsom salt would help them along as suggested by pepperdude? green peppers: cauliflower broccoli: pickling cucumbers: then 2 out 5 rows of our onions: New to our back garden this year is the asparagus. coming along quit nicely too. We're seeing about 15-19 sprouts. We also have in our back garden is seedless watermelon, acorn squash, yellow butternut squash, and here is the zucchini: We have about 4 long rows of peas, that I preferably would like them to climb but hubby says no. then we have the rhubarb: Lastly we have these raspberry bushes coming up everywhere. Their just getting flowers on them Now I know in many of these picts there has been plenty of weeds. And believe it or not these gardens have been tilled atleast 4 times before planting. Can't wait till next year though, I'll find plenty of room for those potatoes. Judgeing by ours farmers and their lands here, corn seems to be very late this year. So I guess we'll just keep our fingers crossed and hope we can harvest something from our garden in the fall.
Thought maybe I may have put this up too early and it didn't get through. Thought I'd bring it up again.
Will you manage to get ripe watermelon between now and autumn, petunia? Our summers are far too cold, we would need a green house for those. You'll have lots of goodies to eat, that's for certain!
not for sure Droopy. The watermelon don't even have any blooms yet. I'm almost thinking we may not get any this year. We just had too much frost for too long of time to be able to get anything in the ground this year. We should get toms and hopefully cucs though.
Now that's what I call success! Petunia, it's looking so good there, I'd be really surprized if you didn't get to harvest that stuff. I am curious to see how the peppers and toms do at your latitude. This is exciting.
Sjoerd, Last year we had plenty of toms. we were able to can atleast 30 jars. I really hope we do as much or more this year, I could really use more, lol, couldn't we all.
Petunia, that looks great!! It all looks so healthy and green. Well done. The rhubarb, break off those stalks comming up and your rhubarb will always have that fresh spring taste even at the end of the season. I hope your summer is long enough to harvest it all!!
That garden looks yummy Petunia!! And if your not sure about the epsom salt just sacrifice 1 of them just to see. Go out and put a tbl. spoon full and spread it around 1 plant and water well. If it doesn't work as you can tell by my name i will send you a list of pepper seed that i have and you can choose one for next year i will send it straight out and not cost you anything! That's just how sure i am!
Wow, I do love to look at pictures of peoples veggie gardens, and that is a lot of veggies! I agree with biita, break off the flowering stems from the rhubarb as they will waste precious energy stores from the plant and the ongoing harvest will suffer. I was determined this year to grow melons, but as usual, one thing led to another and I didn't look after my plants terribly well and the slugs scoffed the lot, so I look forward to seeing pictures of yours.
Such a nice large garden...and all the great benefits you will have soon. This is the first year my rhubarb is growing nicely...I had bought some plants to put in their place and I was just about to dig them out and they started growing better than the previous years...I scared them I think into growing....I mean they don't look even close to the size you have but at least I got to pick some. Any tips on rhubarb growing would be appreciated...Sherry
sherry8, rhubarb we put it just gets bigger and better with every year. In a year or two yours will probably look like mine, just be patient.
