here is the garden today. I built a tomato climbing structure for my two types of indeterminates I've set from seed. Just got them in two days ago.
starting in the front
the first row left to right is a sunflower at each end and a (smal at the moment) watermelon in the center.
then the squash plants. I thought I bough, or they were mislabeled - basic yellow squash instead I got patty pan. They are really pooping now so going to have to learn what to do with them
if you look real close i bought some vidalia sweet onion sets. right now they look about the size of lawn onions (weeds) but hopefully they'll do ok. Never have done onions before.
on the right side, just really starting to pop up are about 18 okra plants. gonna have a BUNCH of okra. I really like the flower and part of the reason I planted so many is as much for decoration. They'll end up about 6-8' tall
ok, by now you are really wondering my i have a giant white contraption of PVC pipes in the garden. There are strings attached vertically and they will support my massive tomato effort. 15 plants and I've been reading up on how to do this. Stay tuned, may be making tomato juice.
in the dirt we have some bush and cranberry beans
then some radishes (right) and zucchini (left)
my tomato sets about a week ago. two types - a black russion (seriously) and a brandywine. Can't tell which is which but will shortly I assume.
here are the zucchini and the radishes (light green). On the radish note this is about 25% of what we have already grown, eaten and given away. There are prob 50-75 in this little patch.
we have some small raised beds inside the fence.
working right to left, in the pot is a two year old parsley. Didn't know they are only good for eating for the first year so I'm letting go to seed to start next year.
a few different kinds of jalepenos
a better boy tomato - went with a determinate here
you can't see but there is a pot of small cucumbers
a better girl tomato
last hard to see is a bed of peppers and pole beans and another pot of cukes
the beans and peppers. we also threw in some carrots, never had success with them and they seem to be doing weell.
the carrots
the middle bed one of the tomatos and I forgot about the spinach (right). we are spinached out. going to cut, trim and freeze in small portions this weekend.
this is fun. on the patio we have (lower) celery we started form a leftover butt. it is amazing the celery flavor we get out of this compared to the crap you get at the store. ya'll should try it.
the up to the right is two Tabasco plants. in a couple months there will be hundreds of peppers on there. We hot pickle them and use in our greens and other stuff.
out in the gravel i made a 'pretty pot' of purple onions and sweet potatos and yes they are turning out pretty plus we'll end up with some food.
have you ever heard of trashcan potatoes? We'll i'm trying it and looks like it is working. When the leave die you dump the can over and get (purportedly) huge amounts of potoatoes. I went yellow.
we have an odd area in the gravel and trying to come up with perennials to put int here., We are thrinking artichokes but for now I threw in a rhubard. We'll see if it makes it
and cannot forget my wifes lime tree. in three years of hard labor battling scale and other stuff we have harvested a total of three fruits..
