Hello, steemians, and welcome to da garden, eh!
I haven't written a garden update for a week or so, so today seemed like a good day to do that. Not much has been happening in the garden up to now due to the need to wait until toward the end of May to plant where I live. This area is zoned 4A, which means we can, and do get cold enough nights to cause frost right up to about the end of May. If you plant frost sensitive plants in the garden before the end of May here, you should be prepared to cover them at night to keep the frost off them.
The big garden got tilled up last week after several days of dry weather, which makes it easier to do the tilling without mud. This year, my housemate ran the tiller.
The garden looks like it's ready to plant now.
While she was tilling, she found a few potatoes that I had missed last fall when I was harvesting them. That happens pretty much every year. There's probably still a few more little ones out there that got buried again, they tend to sprout and come up in odd places, the volunteer potatoes. These weren't starting to sprout yet, the ground is still too cold to get the potatoes to sprout.
My rhubarb is growing pretty fast now with this last week of nice weather.
I've been waiting to see if my blueberry plants were going to start budding out this year. I was worried about a couple of them because they got nibbled by rabbits pretty bad last fall before I put the chicken wire around them. It looks like they all might make it. The one that got eaten the worst is still showing a few new buds, so that's good, so far.
This one actually has some flower buds on it.
This one was the least damaged by the rabbits.
This is the plant with the most damage from the rabbits. It has a few leaf buds on it.
This plant is also doing well.
I haven't started doing any work in the raised beds yet because it's going to be a couple of weeks before I start planting anything in them. I'm going to put my outside tomato plants in one of them, and probably green beans in another one of them. I'm not sure what I'll put in the third raised bed yet, but I'll come up with something for it in the next couple of weeks. I've been thinking about seeing if I can find a couple of old straw bales to put in the third raised bed and try growing something in them. That would be a pretty good experiment, I think.
Thanks for stopping by my page to check out my garden update, eh!
Are "volunteer potatoes" the ones that grow from spuds you accidentally leave in the ground? This is the second time I read that phrase today.
Yes, I don't know if everybody calls them that, but it seems a lot of people call them that. I miss potatoes every year when I dig them, usually the small ones. I don't think they all make it through the winter here, but enough of them do to grow plants in the spring. You can usually get pretty decent potatoes from the volunteer plants also, that's why I let them grow. :-)
I know what you mean about potatoes. You can never harvest a bed completely, no matter how hard you try! Gotta love nature. She gives you surprises later in the year.
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Yes, it's always fun seeing the potatoes coming up in a place that you didn't plant them, because you had them there the year before. :-)
Hello there @amberyooper, we've had trouble with the bunnies eating our peas, so my hubby built this little fence around them using green tree branches, so far so good
Hopefully that will work well for you.
We be waiting for the plantation then the harvest follows
Lovely gardening update, hope the potatoes are still eatable.
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I could eat them if I wanted to, but I will probably plant them in the garden again so that I can get more potatoes this fall.
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