June 2011: Finally!

Weather finally gave us all a break and the garden got some much needed attention. The beans and corn were planted last week. Fencing for the cucumbers and tomatoes, boards and string for the beans, soaker hoses laid out, cucumbers and tomatoes starts planted...all done at the work party June 5. It's a great start but we have lots to do still. Let's hope this weather sticks with us for a bit and we can get it all done!

Saturday, July 31, 2010

Squash are finally taking off.

Corn has been thinned and is looking great.

Tons of growth and fruit on the tomato plants.

Beans reaching for the sky.

Berries look fantastic all weeded!

July 17, 2010

Freshly tilled and raked corn.

Getting close to exposing the boysenberries.

Lettuce patch - eat up!

Some beans are starting to climb!

Janet working on the tomatoes.

Carrots are getting big.

Potatoes

Joel finishing up the tilling.

Peppers

Cucumbers

July 3rd, 2010

Blueberries weeded with strawberries planted in between.

Beans have all sprouted and are growing quickly now.

Flowers are bloomin' in the potato patch.

Zucchini!

All of the squash mounds have sprouted.

Larger leaves of chard are looking ready to eat.

Bibb lettuce loved the few days of hot sun and is growing nicely.

The tomatoes are almost in need of another round of tying up.

Fruit!

SUNSHINE!

A few days of sunshine have done the garden good! I headed up this morning to get a few things done and managed to remember the camera before leaving the house.

Couldn't ask for a better day to be gardening.

Happy Corn

Happy Tomatoes

Happy Peppers

The onions are looking fantastic! And the kids will all soon be running around the garden eating those fresh carrots.

Happy Potato Patch

May 14th Work Party

There was another work party on Friday as Amy said in her email...

Thanks to all who came on Friday! We worked really hard and got all the tomato fencing up (minus 1/2 row) and all the tomatoes planted. We fit 28 per row that gives us 168 tomato plants if they all survive! Hope you are all ready for more tomatoes to can!
We also got the basil row planted – 30 plants! A few cucumbers in that needed to come out of their pots and the cantaloupes planted.

We have a couple more busy work days ahead of us but the garden is coming along quite nicely!

Tomato starts that were pulled from the greenhouse and planted.

The basil is looking incredible!

Quick shot of the potato plants, we've already started to cover some of them over.

North half of the garden...half of the tomato rows.

Taken from the barn, looking back towards the garden.

May 7th Work Party

A bunch of pictures from our work party...

Yukons

Onions are looking fantastic!

Peas are Strung

One-half of five rows of corn planted.

Transplanted garlic looks to be doing just fine.

Future Blueberries

Part of the work crew planting the cabbage patch.

Lettuce/greens are doing well.

Follow the leader!

The leader, apparently, stopped a bit too quick.

Can't post about a work day without a picture of Chris on the tractor.

My favorite picture of the day!