Another Busy Day in the garden!
The bed that held strawberries for the last 3 years was cleared out yesterday. Today it was planted with carrots in the middle section (covered with straw) - 4 kinds of carrots. And the outer edges are green beans.
The garlic was harvested on Friday, and that half of the bed now has carrots in the middle section (3 types) and beets on the edges (one kind each side). The rest of that bed also has garlic (3 types), but it was planted from "bulblets", and isn't quite ready to be harvested - I think maybe 2-3 weeks at least. Yesterday, I cut off a garlic scape from one of those!
Red Dorking are 10 weeks old and looking good. Turns out there are 3 females and 3 males. We will keep only 1 male, and all 3 females - we are pretty sure....
White Rocks - Also 10 weeks old. 20 males and 4 females (as ordered). We were thinking about keeping the four girls, but I think we will butcher all to see how they butcher out at around 16 weeks old - see if the girls are a good size. These males cost only $0.80 each! Overall, they do appear to be a good size for 10 weeks!
Its been about a week and a half since I got the sweet potato starts (well, 2 varieties arrived this past Wed). There are 2 of each of the 12 varieties in this bed. They have recovered well from transplanting. They are well watered daily.
Here are another 50 or so Sweet potato slips. They remain in full sun nearly all day. Most of these are also doing well, looks like only one might not make it. There is a watermelon mound in the foreground - I think it is a white watermelon.
This watermelon in another bed is already vining! It is a "Moon and Stars" watermelon, and we have grown it in the past and enjoyed it - it has a nice crisp red interior.
Gourds are finally beginning their climb! I may regret this as jumping spiders seem to like this part of the garden.....
The asparagus bed is doing well - we are still seeing new spears coming up. We are leaving them all alone and only watering them. We planted them this spring.
This pumpkin is vining quite a bit - we expanded its covered area. Hopefully we can safely remove the cover in about 2-3 weeks and the SVB threat will be over. The other covered area in the background are two the pumpkin types - a pie pumpkin and a carving pumpkin.
More of that squash bed - most of the trellised area is winter-type squash, but some cucumbers. The covered area on the left is rutabaga, then behind that is summer squash
Tomatillos are just beginning. we have 4 plants, two of each type.
@Wee Farmer Sarah - I think you have only 1 left...which wont give you tomatillos, which is sad. This happened to us the first year also, but we didn't know that no tomatillos would develop so we kept hoping until I found out you needed two plants. So, no we start several, however it seems that due to one thing or another, we only end up with max 2 per type, no matter how many were started.
Hyacinth Bean Vine - pretty, but not the shade we were looking for. Bottle/birdhouse gourds for the win. There are Nasturtiums in the bed as well.
First red tomato! This one is "Sweetheart" as the tomatoes are small Oxheart shaped tomatoes. We will try it tomorrow!
