Blogger fail

I suck at this blogging thing. This post is primarily going to be pictures of things after I picked them because I just have not taken that many pictures of the garden this year. Highlights this year, peppers, tomatoes, lettuces, mustard greens, beans. Lowlights-cucumbers ( I got 4), squash (I hope there is a special insect hell for squash vine borers), watermelons ( I just didn't give them any attention or try on them this year) and collards (screw you whiteflies). Here we go.

Ok

maybe

a few

garden shots

Gardening made me learn to cook. So that's cool.

 A lot of stuff in this one. Beets, an eight ball zuchinni (which was supposed to solid green), various tomatoes (black cherry, green grape, sungold, better boy F1, green zebra, probably some other ones I forgot), green and purple beauty peppers, jalapenos, onions, rainbow chard, pepperocinis, some sort of italian bippity boppity green sweet peppers.

 Red onions and green peppers

 White onion and a whole lot of the world's smallest shallots.

 Basil and more various tomatoes.

 Purple potatoes, onion, hungarian wax peppers, jalapeno

 Yellow onions drying. My onions were tiny but very good.

 More peppers, tomatoes, wax beans

 Ferocious beasts guarding the harvest. One of my sorry cucumbers, more bell peppers, more tomatoes, wax beans, pole beans (blue lake)

 Just liked the colors in this shot

I think you can figure out what these pictures are. I have gotten a ridiculous amount of peppers this year. No coincidence I planted them in the side bed where I really worked the soil. Need to work the soil in the back this winter. Still having a blast and still failing to update. Thanks for reading!

So much produce

Suffice to say I am growing a lot this year. And not updating. So I am just going to post a bunch of pictures!

Can see some of the peppers

These are some pictures of the little side bed I built which has been a prolific producer. Filled it up with a combination of yard dirt, compost and peat moss over the winter. Plants are loving the soil. These pics are mostly radish, lettuce, spinach, beets, kohlrabi, etc. I have pulled most of the greens, now in the bed are peppers, lettuce is still there, some new beets and radishes.

I was having an issue with aphids on my tomatos when I first planted them. The aphids were on them before I transplanted them, I think they moved in when I had the seedlings outside hardening off. Anyways this little lady was the vanguard of lady bug horde and they pretty much took care of the aphid problem.

This bed looks shitty in this picture. I fixed it up some since then ;p
Rasberries on the left, lovage, horseradish, assorted things in the cinder blocks and now have some sunflowers sprouting.

Tomatoes in various stages of growth. The picture on the right has eggplants and borage also.

I have to buy a memory card for my damn camera still because my phone doesnt take great pictures but you get the idea.

Scarlet beets

Chioggia Beets, very pretty

Lettuce, kohlrabi, arugula, peas, broccoli, random strawberry

garlic

Anyways all these pics are a few weeks old. I will take some new ones this week and then probably forget to post them until August. :)

Whee

Assorted lettuces. Getting plenty of greens now. April was so cool that all the lettuces, spinach, etc did really well. Back in the 80's today though, and seems like it will be staying that way for a while.

The cinder block bed on the side is doing well. Lots of assorted greens and radishes.

Cabbages

Beets and lettuce

 



Inside the cinder blocks the big things are radishes, the ones that look empty have carrots. The cinder block walls are working out very well. Horseradish, catnip, raspberries and lovage inside that bed. You can only see the horseradish here though.

Spinach,radishes and kohlrabi in the back

More radishes. I have a ton of different radish types.














Iris' are pretty. Garlic growing in front of them.

Grew some mushrooms too :)

Lastly moved some tomatoes and basil out. It's a bit too early, but I will just have to baby them. Started them inside too early and they got too big.

So much for frequent updates

Well spring has been busy. Shocking I know. I expanded the space of the garden this year, it's about 20'x30' now and takes a large portion of the backyard. I don't get optimal sun thanks to the giant oak trees that shit leaves all over my yard every fall, but I don't have the money to have the trees removed and the shade is nice. For me, not so much for the plants. By expanding it more towards the house I will get more sun.

I started a lot of seedling indoors for the first time this year. It has been going pretty well. These are broccoli raab, cabbages, leeks, kohlrabis, head lettuce, collard greens, and probably some other stuff I forgot. This is when I was hardening them off, early March probably. Put them all out in the garden and the weather promptly decided it was summer and we had a string of 80 degree days. In March. I currently have tomatoes, basil and some hot peppers waiting to be transplanted out.

Broccoli raab when I first transplanted it above, and basically mature to the right. Two of these 3 plants are in my belly now. I had never had broccoli raab before, I have to say I really like it. And I don't particularly care for normal broccoli.

 Cabbages mostly, some onions as well.

 Mustard greens are the small close together plants. The yellow flowers are a broccoli raab that bolted, but bees seem to enjoy the flowers so I am leaving it be.

 Arugula!

 Beets. Another new thing this year. These are chioggia or candy cane beets. In theory they will be pretty to look at. I don't think I have ever eaten a beet.

 Regular broccoli. Growing slow in the shade, but at least it's not bolting.

 Carrots I think, and more broccoli raab.

 Mesclun, baby lettuces.

Some of the beds are starting to fill in. Still nothing on the trellis's except one which has peas. Eventually there will be pole beans and vining squash on the trellis'.

This is the cinder block bed I built on the side of the house. Have lots growing in it, chard, radishes, spinach, lettuce. Getting rid of the grass (I hate grass!) Im putting newspaper and cardboard underneath a layer of mulch. All the grass in the front is gone, most of the rear is the garden and now the side is almost done. Once I get the grass out of the other side I'll be done.





So that's whats happening. In the ground, radishes (black round spanish, regular red globes, icicle, watermelon), lettuces (red sails, salad bowl, pablo, black seeded simpson, mesclun), spinach(bloomsdale longstanding), kohlrabi, broccoli, broccoli raab, cabbage, collard greens, mustard greens, arugula, onions, leeks, peas, raddichio, horseradish, catnip, lovage and garlic I overwinted.. Small quantities of everything. Still have large beds empty, one for tomatoes basil and borage, one for squash.