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Garden update, May 4, 2012

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Just planted:

  • Pumpkin
  • Green Beans

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Growing:

  • White Potatoes
  • Zucchini
  • Yellow Squash
  • Watermelon
  • Cabbage
  • Banana Peppers
  • Bell Peppers
  • Garlic
  • Onions
  • Lots and Lots of Tomatoes
  • Watermelon
  • Cucumbers
  • Peaches
  • Pears
  • Satsumas
  • Concord Grapes

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Harvesting:

  • Basil
  • Parsley
  • Mint
  • Oregano
  • Chives
  • Cilantro
  • Lettuces
  • Spinach
  • Swiss Chard
  • Sugar Snaps
  • Carrots
  • Aspargus

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And introducing—our ladybugs!  I don’t love critters of any type, but I’m hoping these little insects can help us with our aphid problem.

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Our North Louisiana Garden, March 2012

Here’s a quick peek into our little garden today:

 

We are eating broccoli, spinach, and asparagus right now, but very, very soon we’ll have a whole produce section!  Here’s what we’re growing.

In the 4 x 4 bed:

  • sugar snaps
  • white potatoes

In the 16 x 4 bed:

  • lettuces
  • onions
  • chard
  • broccoli (from the fall and new)
  • cabbage
  • mint
  • parsley
  • asparagus
  • rosemary

In the north 8 x 4 bed:

  • roma tomatoes (just put these out)
  • banana peppers
  • green bell peppers
  • basil

In the south 8 x 4 bed:

  • onions
  • sugar snaps
  • carrots
  • tomatoes
  • chives

In the 2 x 8 bed

  • spinach
  • strawberries
I think we have all the raised beds we’ll need for a while.  I’m excited about how many veggies we can fit into such a small area. I’m relying on Square Foot Gardening and hoping that we really aren’t crowding our plants too much.  I’ve also done a lot of mixing and matching, mostly based on tips from Carrots Love Tomatoes .

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Fall Garden

This hot, hot, dry, dry summer was tough on our garden.  We harvested a few tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers and 1 little bitty ol’ canteloupe back in June and July.  Since then, it has been too stinkin’ hot to even get out there to work.  Yuck.  We pulled everything up in late July (except the watermelon vine and that crazy pepper plant that likes the high temps)with the plan to start a few things for August.  Um, yea.  That didn’t happen. 

Finally, we have a break from the heat.  We had a couple of pretty (read as cooler than 90 degrees) days around the beginning of September so we weeded everything and laid down a new layer of compost.

Today, the high is only 89!  Whoo Hoo!  (let’s pretend that last Friday wasn’t day #65 or so of 100+ degree temps)  I picked up some lettuce, cabbage, and broccoli from HD to transplant.  I decided to try one more early producing tomato too.  Maybe we’ll get a few more before the temps get too cold. 

So…here it is, the fall garden with it’s teeny tiny transplants, the crazy and loaded bell pepper plant and one happy, but not fruitful, watermelon vine.  Bring on the fall!

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Rainy Day Gardening

It rained!

Two days in a row!

(We haven’t seen rain in weeks and weeks and weeks.)

Hooray!

But, rain and thunderstorms = no pool time.

No pool time = stir crazy kids.

Thankfully, I’d picked up two of these kits the other day.

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And that is how a 6-year-old gardens while indoors!

A Garden Update

**This is all about my garden.  I’m not really writing it for y’all, but to document it for myself!  But, please read if you’d like.  Oh, and Anne, if you see this, please show the pictures to our FIL.  Thanks!**

We’ve sort of finished a phase in our garden.  I guess you could say our Winter/Spring garden is finished.  Here’s the garden as it looked in March:
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This was a few weeks ago (before the temps hit 90!!!):
 


Here it is today (after we pulled out all the peas and we’ve eaten most of the lettuce, spinach, and cabbages):
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We’ve eaten: lettuce, spinach, Swiss chard, cabbage, sugar snaps, broccoli, English peas, carrots and onion tops.

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In next year’s spring garden, we’ll grow:  lettuce, spinach, Swiss chard, cabbage, broccoli, LOTS more sugar snaps, carrots and onion tops.  (and those fluffy asparaguses that are developing great little root systems right now.  (We didn’t find the English peas to be worth the effort.)
Next up:  We are waiting on our tomatoes to ripen and our squashes to get bigger.
Our summer garden has:  some Swiss chard, cucumbers, cantaloupes, green beans, bush beans, cherry tomatoes, Early Girl tomatoes, green zucchinis, yellow crook-necked squash, purple onions, yukon potatoes, strawberries, and sunflowers.  We also have dill, mint (2 kinds), basil, oregano, stevia, cilantro, sage, tarragon.
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I’ve also given some thought to the fall.  I think it will look much like our spring garden:  cabbage, broccoli, sugar snaps, lettuces, and carrots.