A Look At The Garden

 Hard to get a pic without the sun shining!

Today, I finally got my seedlings transplanted in the garden. So hopefully, we will have more cucumber plants and summer squash too. I didn't realize that several of my cucumber plants were coming in, but by then, it was too late. I had already started all those new seedlings. Oh well, cucumbers are a wonderful snack! We will eat a lot of them if we have them.They are one of my favorite vegetables.

 Backyard

Even though I had decided not to plant tomatoes due to the Late Blight. I still have several of the volunteers from the heirloom tomato plant I planted years ago coming up. It comes up every year, usually at a completely different location. This year though, it is the same place as last year. I was happy to see the first one come up and now I have a few more. You never know with that one how many you will get.

 Green Hubbard Squash traveling!

The Green Hubbard squash I planted have really taken off. The cooler temps agree with them and I have them in area of the garden where when the sun is really hot, they are sort of shaded.  I am hoping to get a good crop of them for our harvest. Usually I can my winter squash and these are supposed to be really big. I don't know as it is my first time growing them.

 

 Our raised wood beds

Copyright © 2011 Kathleen G. Lupole
All Photographs Copyright © 2011 Kathleen G. Lupole

First Plants Of 2011 In The Ground!

Today even though it was raining most of the day, my husband prepared two of our wood raised beds. He had to weed them first as they had really filled up with grass and weeds something awful. Then he used the wheel hoe/cultivator to plow it up. Then added fresh new compost from our compost pile. This is compost that has been sitting for a couple of years. It is very rich, dark and full of good things. Then he plowed it again.

After he did all that hard work. I had the job of bringing some of the plants from in the house and planted them in the first raised bed. I put the Green Hubbard Winter squash there. Six of them. I had eight, but broke two of them when trying to transplant them. That is because they had gotten quite big and I usually transplant them before they get that size. Next year, I will not start them so soon.

I did not get the second bed planted yet. Hopefully, I will get that one planted tomorrow. These beds are in the side yard, sort of out of the way. That way when they spread out they are not such a pest to my husband when he mows the lawn. He is very particular about the lawn!

Copyright © 2011 Kathleen G. Lupole
All Photographs Copyright © 2011 Kathleen G. Lupole