Saturday, May 9, 2009: Our berry patch is along one side of the property line. We got the strawberries in this morning. Last year or the year before we planted blackberries, raspberries and blueberries. I think our blueberries need some help.
This is what 37' x 88' looks like. I've got tomatoes, peppers (Anaheim, Jalapeno, and Bell), and potato starts to get in the ground. We'll end up with that and corn, green beans, peas, carrots, onions, garlic, shallots, kale, fennel, beets, cucumbers, radish, zuchinni, yellow crookneck, artichoke, and asparagus.
Besides the berry patch and the vegetable garden I have an area selected for my herb garden and another area selected for my salad greens. Then I spied another growing area for watermelon, cantaloupe, honeydew, and the different squashes, i.e., butternut, acorn, etc.
**In the end all of this paragraph was wishful thinking, not a one of these were planted.
Wednesday, July 15, 2009: Our first harvest. I call the yellow squash our Munster's squash. The other squash and red potatoes are from our volunteer plants. We did plant other red potatoes and will have them coming out of our ears.
There were lots more but they made it to my mouth before picture time. :)
Saturday, September 5, 2009: This morning's harvest. Peppers anyone? I didn't even check the potatoes.
Monday, September 7, 2009: Our greenhouse. This was Steve's big ticket item last year and he's just getting this assembled.
Not too big and we should have spent the extra money to get the bigger one. Can't wait to use it though and get a head start on the growing season. :)
**We never did use this because the panels kept popping out and then the track to the door got crunched by one of the animals.
Sunday, September 27, 2009: Jalapenos anyone? This is from our garden and it filled the largest Tupperware bowl and then some.
A different view for the "and then some". Getting ready to can them. :) Canned jalapenos are the best and we can't seem to grow enough to keep up with our eating.
Sunday, October 11, 2009: My cute little mutated red potato.
Our yield minus a few we dug up earlier in the season and about 8 we ate yesterday.
To grow potatoes you need to have at least two eyes growing from an existing potato and bury it in the dirt. We learned that you can cut up a potato and plant with just the two eyes. Some potatoes were cut into quarters. Each plant yielded 3-4 potatoes.
Next year we'll plant yukon, russett, and red. And we'll plant them closer together with the rows being the spacer. :)
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