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Mid-May planting: Beans, squash, cukes and melons
Our garden in May Sunday was a beautiful day to garden, which was great since I had a pretty long to-do list. Above you can see one section of the garden. The far raised beds are planted with...
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The jungle in the greenhouse
The greenhouse in June In just a few short weeks, the tiny little tomatoes I planted have turned my greenhouse into a jungle! Everything in the greenhouse is growing like crazy. The cucumbers, melons,...
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Straw bale and other plantings
Sugar pumpkins planted in straw bales I thought I posted a picture of this yesterday, but it looks as though I didn’t. As mentioned in an earlier post, I am doing a straw bale garden this year. I’m...
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Drizzle gardening and my new toy
If you can’t handle a gardening in rain once in a while, you won’t get a lot of gardening done in the Puget Sound during a particularly soggy spring. After a lovely day on Saturday, during which I...
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First cukes & beans
Cukes, ready for harvest I originally started vegetable gardening a number of years ago because I wanted to grow my own cucumbers, lemon cucumber to be specific. For a long time, cucumbers were the...
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Speckled cranberry beans & garlic
Speckled cranberry beans This is my first year growing speckled cranberry beans. I grew a good volume of beans out of one bean tower of plants. Given the fact that half my plants didn’t make it for one...
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Raised beds, greenhouse, and peaches in May
Outdoor raised bed garden It’s May, but barely, and I’m still working on getting all my summer crops into the ground. In part, this has taken extra time because we’re still working on our big garden...
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