2020 Garden

March 8 - Seed Starts

Elderberry Cuttings Received!!

March 15 - Seed starts progress

Green Arrow Peas - directly sown

March 22

 Little bit of lettuce popping up!

 Green Arrow Peas are doing great!!

Little radishes popping out too!

March 30 - Elderberries are leafing out!

April 5 - getting all the outdoor containers ready to go!

April 11 - Time to start hardening off the seedlings!

May 5 - Rhododendron has blossomed!!

May 17

The lettuce are finally taking off!

The Tom Thumb Peas are a success and have put out their first pods!

The Green Arrow Peas have grown significantly!

The Parsley was damaged by a late frost but it recovering

Tomato bins

Daikon Radish

May 20

The first harvest from the Tom Thumb Peas.  They were small but so delicious!!  Next year I will be planting a lot of these little guys!

May 31

First Green Arrow Pea harvest - these were really tasty.  Steamed for just a couple minutes and they were perfect!

June 24

The Tom Thumb Peas were starting to get too hot so I moved them to a shady part of the porch.  I'm hoping to keep them going until the fall so I can get another harvest out of them.

The lettuces are doing really well.  The tall ones are Arugula - I'm trying to get them to go to seed.  The shorter ones are several smaller varieties.

This is the Tom Thumb Lettuce - it's very tasty and has been growing very well in this shabby part of my garden.

These are the Rocky Top Lettuce variety.  They are growing really well too.  I like the variety - almost like the spring mix you can get at the grocery.

I've got one little strawberry trying to grow - I just don't have the heart to remove the plant so I continue to watch and root it on!  LOL!

The Purslane was doing great until about a week ago when part of it started dying off.  But I have lots of new growth occurring too so I'm going to hang on and see what it does.

I had some bugs eating my pepper leaves but I seem to have that under control now and over the last week they have started really growing.  Haven't seen any peppers yet but I've got my fingers crossed.

These are the Green Arrow Peas.  They do not like heat so it's time to pull them out and put in some beans.  Once the beans are done I will plant some more peas from some seed that I saved.

These are some bush beans that I wasn't sure were going to make it after our last frost but they seem to coming to life over the last couple weeks.

These are a couple tomato plants I started from seed that looked like they didn't make it after that last frost but they are now doing pretty good.  Unfortunately I used a water soluble ink to write on my plant markers (*headbang*) so I have no idea what varieties these are!  I'm hoping that when they put out fruit I will be able to identify them.  There is some celery companion planted in there with them but it doesn't seem to be growing very big.

This is my best cabbage plant.  I can't wait to see how much bigger it gets.

These are some carrot seed that I had left over from a couple years ago.  I wasn't sure it would germinate but they seem to be doing pretty good.

These are some DAR Cucumbers from Baker Creek.  I'm really looking forward to seeing those blossoms turn into some yummy cukes!

In front of the cucumbers are some scallions and marigolds.

This is that parsley that I almost lost after our last freeze.  It's doing great and I've harvested from it a couple times already.

This is a cilantro that I started from some old seed.  Again, I wasn't sure it would germinated but it did.  However, it is trying to flower out and it's not even very big yet.  I'm going to pinch those flower buds off and hopefully that will get the plant to put more energy to its leaves.

This is some dill I planted from that old seed too.  It is so incredibly small right now - I'm not sure if it will actually make it.

These are the daikon radishes.  They are just about ready to harvest and then I can put in another round of them.

This is the only turnip that made it.  The seed was from several years ago so I'm surprised I got this one to germinate!

This is some Purple Kohlrabi.  It was a free seed that I got from Baker Creek.  I've never grown this before nor eaten it.  You are supposed to sow it every three weeks.  I'll be putting more in this weekend.

This is one of the bigger Marigolds.  Most of the seeds I put in sprouted but they are all pretty small.  This one for some reason is growing really big.

This is one of my Jalapeño plants and a Jigsaw Pepper.  These were also attacked by bugs early on but have been doing much better the last couple weeks.

These are my Kales.  I have harvested from them once and need to do another harvest.

This is my Beefsteak Tomato.  It was one of the plants I bought to replace the tomatoes I started from seed that didn't survive that last frost.  I've got several good looking fruits on it now that I am hoping will ripen soon!

This one is a Brandywine - it was another one that I bought from the garden center to replace the ones that got destroyed by the frost.  It also has several good looking pieces of fruit on it.

This is a Cherokee Purple that I also picked up at the garden center.  The fruit on this one is smaller than the others but still looks really good.

These are my potato plants.  They are doing really well!

I thought I could companion plant some green beans with the potatoes but I don't think they are getting enough sun.  They have put out a couple of these puny beans but I don't think they are going to do well.  Live and learn!!

These are some impatiens I got at the garden center.  I tried to grow some from seed but they didn't do very well.

Now on to the front beds.  These are an experiment to see if I can grow them in the front.  None of them are doing very well.  I think if I get some containers next year to grow in, they will do much better.  The rubber mulch here is really deep so it was hard to get them into dirt.  This is a pumpkin.

 These are cantaloupes - sad little plants!

These are my zucchinis.  Neither of them look very healthy but the one on the top has actually put out some fruit so we will see what happens.  I'm going to replant in a container I have in the backyard and hopefully I'll be able to still get some zucchini this year.

This is a Butternut - again...not doing very well really.

This is a spaghetti squash.  It's putting out flowers now but I don't really expect it to do that well.

These are my flower boxes that I have on the railing of my front porch.  I started all of these from seed and they are doing pretty good.  I had hoped they would fill these boxes a whole lot more but I'm still happy with them.

And this is one of the Elderberries I put in the front.  I wasn't sure if they would do very well since this part of the yard doesn't get a huge amount of sun.  But...this one has actually put out some flowers!!  I'm actually a little concerned because none of my Elderberries seem to be getting very big.  I'm hoping that next year they will really take off.