It's been a short month for us as we've been quite busy so this update is long overdue. The garden has been quite the learning experience to say the least. On to the pictures.
Our herb disc's arrived and we placed them in the included pots. Included in the pack were arugula, chives, parsley, thyme, chives, basil, and cilantro. All of them are doing nicely except for the thyme. Only a couple of seeds came up and it them proceeded to die for whatever reason. Thankfully we have another thyme disc that we'll be potting. The tomatoes in the clear plastic dish are doing great and are ready for potting, which we'll do this week. There is also a hot pepper plant that Anne picked up ready for potting as well.
This is our partial shade bed. The radishes in the lower left have continued to grow extremely well, we even harvested our first radish yesterday with several more on the way for this week. Just to the right of the radishes is our lettuce greens mix, also doing extremely well. To the right of that is the romaine lettuce with has perked back up after the bit of cold weather we had. In the upper left we have the red onions we bought at Home Depot, which are doing nicely. Lastly in the upper right we have the garlic bulbs that went in, they are also doing well.
Here's our tub of pre-purchased plants. One strawberry plant which is beginning to bear fruit and two broccoli plants which are doing great.
This is full sun bed number one. Along the back we have the pea plants which have thrived and started to attach themselves to the trellis. Two more broccoli plants in the lower right are ping great. We're onto the third of our zucchini plants that we started indoors. The previous two died fairly quickly simply because it was too cold outside at night. Same goes for the four cucumber plants we had along the back, just too cold. We'll replant the dukes from seed when it's good and hot out. Lesson learn on that one.
Here we have full sun bed number two. As with the zucchini plant we're on the third squash plant that we had started inside. It was just too cold outside for them. In the lower right are two more broccoli plants that are doing great just like the others.
Lastly, the corn. I had started some Silver Queen inside and because of the brief cold snap we had they don't look too good. Not quite dead yet so we'll see how it goes. Now that the weather has stabilized and warm enough I started the sweet corn and early and often varieties as well as some additional silver queen. Some of the early and often has already poked up through the soil after only 4 days so i'm optimistic that the corn will do better in the stable weather.
Our first radish!
With the weather being good this week we are planning on potting the tomato plants we started from seed. It's also time for second plantings of things like romaine lettuce, mixed lettuce greens, and more radishes! We also have dill, carrots, two varieties of peppers, and brussels sprouts that can get planted in the beds.
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