Vegetable Gardening

[GLC1968]

OK, here goes:

This is our row garden taken on July4.


We have a very late summer this year, so a lot of things are just now getting going. Here we have tomatoes, two types of corn, winter squash, summer squash, melons, beans and garlic in the back. Potatoes hadn't yet been planted (they go where the black plastic is and I'll also be doing fall broccoli where the garlic is after we harvest (next week!).

This is our squarefoot gardening section also taken on July4.

Kale, carrots, radishes, parsnips, beets, peppers, tomatoes, cukes, peas, cauliflower, broccoli, brussels sprouts, lettuce, chard, spinach, potatoes, strawberries, and onions.

This is the section of row garden that was covered with black plastic - it's now our newly planted second potato patch (the first is in the boxes - we are experimenting to see where they do better):


This is our 7 new blueberry bushes and our drip system. Someday we'll get a real harvest from these but not this year...


Red plums - should be ripe in a couple of weeks:



And for good measure - here are a couple of other things that we are 'growing'

The bees 'hanging out on the front porch' on a hot day last week:

The taller hive is just MASSIVE and filling with honey like crazy!

A pregnant Skylark (due end of August):

[Veronica]

Yippee! GLC garden pics!

Almost as good as a blog entry....

Did you know Nov. 17 is Homemade Bread Day? I thought of you as I was prepping my writing prompt for that day.

Veronica

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Great to get these updates from everyone!


GLC- my two hives are doing very well too! But mine are mostly just building up their population their first year now....i doubt there'll be any excess honey for me this year.
My new blueberry bushes are just babies too.

[tulip]

It's been a very hot summer, with several weeks over 100F. Some of my plants did not like that a bit--I still have yet to see one zucchini! Others just hunkered down and waited it out. Now that's it's cooler, things have picked up again.

I created several new beds this summer. The herb half-moon bed will be fabulous next year, when the lavender and rosemary fill in the border and I get additional herbs in. Right now there's alot of basil, zinnias, and cosmos to fill in.

The sunflowers are kindof all over, but I like them that way. And the melons, squash, and pumpkins have taken over, too.

[tulip]

39 Hollyhocks for my perennial gardens in the front, side, and back.

Lots of leeks for the winter potager.

[badger]

I'm so jealous of all your gardens!! I can't wait to have a proper vegetable garden, but for now I have to make do with pots on my patio.

"garden"

my haul today:


Question I have, which may very well have been asked/answered earlier but I can't go through 27 pages: how do you keep some veg/herbs from "bolting"? I was trying to keep the cilantro and swiss chard from bolting, but no go. It was a futile endeavor so I just let them go.

And incidentally, does anyone know what this tree is? I'm thinking it's part of a hazel family, but I've yet to see it anywhere for me to actually identify it. It flowers bell-shaped purple flowers and bear seeded pods:


sorry for the bright background:

[tulip]

What a beautiful garden, Badger! Cilantro bolts when it gets the least bit hot, but the seeds are Coriander and you can collect them and use them in cooking. Or you can use them to replant cilantro for the cooler months. Plant them now.

I've never had Swiss chard bot. It seems to last all winter and summer here.