Tuesday, May 14, 2013

2013 Garden as of May 14th...

I've had a bunch of radishes grow this spring and have been pulled.

Here's how everything is currently planted:

BOX ONE - 4'x4'
1 Grape Tomato
2 German Johnson Tomato
3 Big Beef Tomato
4 Midget Carrots

The far right strip was were French Radishes were planted, and I'm not sure yet what I'll plant in the two empty spots yet.

BOX TWO - 4'x4'

1 Purple Cherokee Tomato
2 Delicous Tomato
3 Better Boy Tomato
4 Fifteen Various Bell Peppers

BOX THREE - 4'x6'
1 & 2 - Zucchini
3 Tam (mild) Jalapeno
4 Garden Salsa Pepper
5 Cowhorn Pepper
6 Tobasco Pepper
7 Mucho Nacho Pepper
8 Hot Cayenne Pepper
9-11 Jalapeno Pepper
12-14 Hot Banana Pepper
15 Cherry Hot
16 (unknown pepper?!)
17 Red Chili

Thursday, April 11, 2013

2013 Garden Begins...

April 9th - mixed up all the compost, vermiculite, manure, etc. for the new 4x6 bed. Pulled existing bed material from other boxes to mix in to spread old and new materials between all three boxes.

April 10th - Box 1 - planted 64 "crimson giant" radishes (burpee seeds)
                   Box 2 - 64 "french dressing" radishes (burpee seeds)

April 11th - Box 1 - planted three rows of midget carrots in 4 square feet (burpee seeds)

Thursday, July 12, 2012

Tomato sampling...

Black Prince, Green Zebra, Purple Cherokee



2012 Garden


Onion harvest
Pepper and Tomato Harvest
Tiger Striped Tomatoes
  
Cherry Peppers

Tomatoes

Hot Peppers

Roma Tomatoes

Bell Peppers

I haven't posted to this blog yet this season, even though I've already harvested broccoli and lots of other things, but nobody really reads it anyway, so no problem!

Thursday, August 4, 2011

Belles and Maters

Picking the tomatoes just as they start to turn helps them from being eaten by bugs or squirrels or splitting. They ripen just fine indoors if they're already started turning on the vine.

Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Playing catch up...

These photos were taken over the past couple of weeks, as I haven't updated the blog in a while.








Wednesday, July 20, 2011