Everything's Coming Up Green

Archive for the ‘Gardening’ Category

I want to take a minute and share with you how my garden is doing. I will give you for warning that there are quite a few weeds. Since I was gone all last week and it rained every night while I was gone, all of the last minute weeding that I did before I left is no longer visible. It has rained every night since as well. Plus let’s be honest, laundry comes first. Anyway here are a few pictures of the garden.

These are my dad’s herbs- Basil, Cilantro and Thyme. The Rosemary didn’t make it.

The Tomato plants are starting to get blooms!

Heads are starting to grow on the Broccoli! I am so excited because this is my first time growing broccoli and it is looking so good even after the nasty storms we’ve been getting!

One of my many gorgeous Onions.

A potato plant.

My strawberries haven’t been much this year. It’s a developing year. I will say they are looking a ton better though.

My lone Pumpkin. I barely got this planted before a storm blew in. I planted 5 seeds on that mound and one came up. I didn’t get out there in time to start anymore mounds.

This is my Zucchini. I have two of these and as you can see they already have blossoms!

I think this is Acorn Squash.

I believe this is a cucumber. My other one died.

These are Straight Neck Yellow Squash.

Here is a view of all the vine plants. All those weeds to the right were not there when I left. Soon there will be mulch there instead.

One of my three pepper plants. I think that I am going to transplant them. The potatoes got a lot bigger than I thought they would!

There you have it. I will post more picks after I have had a chance to weed!

Spring has sprung and I have been getting my green thumb on! I have been busy weeding, planting, watering, and yes, harvesting!

 

 

 The strawberries are blooming beautifully now,

 

and as long as I keep harvesting the asparagus it keeps growing back. This fall I will transplant it over into one of the beds. It is currently planted where the garden used to be. We moved the garden because it was A) to far away and difficult to water and B) nothing would grow in the soil over there. Depending on how well my gardening venture goes this year I may try planting some stuff over there next year so that I have more room. I know, I know, I am very ambitious. But I love gardening and if you prepare well it will mean less work during the growing season.

Here’s the list of everything I have going this year:

7 Tomato Plants (3 “big Boy”, 1 Med sized, and 3 Cherry)

3 Peppers (2 Yellow, 1 Green)

7 Red Potato Plants

9 Heads of Broccoli

Lots of Red Onions

Almost an entire bed of Strawberries

3 Rhubarb

Several Asparagus

1 Acorn Squash

2 Cucumber

2 Zucchini

2 Straight Necked Squash

1 Pumpkin (Hopefully)

1 Raspberry Bush (To be planted)

3 Blueberry Bushes

The blueberry bushes are my grandparents’ pet project so I don’t have to worry about those.

My plan is to do a ton of canning, freezing, and salsa making with all those tomatoes. My dad has started a herb garden in a planter box so hopefully I will have fresh herbs to use in my salsa and spaghetti sauce!

Wish me luck! I can’t wait to share some of my garden love with friends and family!