I have finally started getting things together in the garden. We had a rough start this year, but things are actually going pretty well now.
We started out pretty much where we ended last year:
It was actually kind of funny with the rain. I was waiting for a three day window of no rain. A day with no rain to do the rototilling and a couple days prior with no rain so that the soil could drain a little. One day, I was finished studying at around 7 pm ... I figured it had not rained that day or the day before AND I had an hour before the sun went down ... SCORE! :)
In the back left-hand corner, there was a nice little surprise left from last year. I had planted two artichoke plants the year prior. One of them did pretty well, while the other really did nothing. Surprisingly enough, the one that did pretty poorly came back... with a vengeance
It was a little sad though ... the one that did well the year before put out a couple leave, but ended up dying. :(
I had started a lot of plants this year. About 30 tomatoes plants of different varieties. Several zuccini, cucumber, a couple different winter squash varieties, 30 bean plants each of two different varieties.
It FINALLY got warm enough to put it all out. Within 2 days, EVERY SINGLE PLANT had been eaten by either slugs or (in the case of the beans) rabbits. I was NOT happy.
I went ahead and bought some tomatoe and squash plants from a nursury (grrrr) and got them in. We also put in three new artichoke plants. The rabbits/slugs left the tomatoes alone, but did in a few of the others. All in all, we ended up with all the tomatoes, one winter squash, one zucc, one summer squash that was supposed to be a zucc, but is something else, one lemon cuc. Not fantastic, but should be enough to enjoy for the summer.
The middle bed houses most of the tomotoes in the back and the unknown (but tasty) summer squash in the front. The right bed has the winter squash and lemon cucumber at the back, a chocolate pepper, hot pepper and zuccini in the middle and a few more tomatoes in the mid-front. The section without cover are some potatoes that sprouted in the kitchen... heh.
The left hand bed has the beans and a section of weed still waiting to be removed... :P
A few more pics:
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| Side view |
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| New artichoke plant |
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| Unknown summer squash |
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| Winter squash, lemon tomatoes, zucchini |
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| First tomato plants |
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| Yellow beans |
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| View from the back |
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| Hard to see, but asparagus fans |
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| Potatoes |
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| Unknown summer squash |
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| Unknown summer squash and what was left of the first cherry tomato harvest |
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| Proto-zucchini bread |
