Hello, Hivers! Welcome to my garden!
This is just a quick picture update on the progress of my garden. We were having a hot dry spell, but it rained a lot over the previous couple of days and the garden perked right up.
This is my housemate's corn garden. She likes to grow hard corn, and she's trying a different variety this year. This is a variety of white corn that is descendant from Native American corn strains. In the big container on the far side of the corn plot is a tomato plant that she's growing for, as she calls it, lunch tomatoes.
This is an overview of the main garden.
These are my yellow squash plants in the fence in the middle of the picture, with borage plants on the left side, as well as a volunteer squash plant of unknown type. I use the fence to keep my cat from digging near the plants.
This is a row of volunteer potato plants that I added a few seed potatoes to, to make a full row.
My 3 rows of tomato plants in the garden.
I have a few zucchini plants together in the end of the low raised bed.
I also have 4 tomato plants occupying the rest of the low raised bed. I planted some of my marigold plants around the tomato plants, but mostly on the sunward side of the bed, as well as both ends.
This is the green bean plants in the high raised bed. They're not doing so well, they had a bug infestation that I'm not sure if I got rid of yet. They seem to be doing better now, but I'll probably have to spray them again. I've had problems with the same tiny bugs for the past 3 years, so they must over-winter in the soil.
These are my carrots in the end of the high raised bed. I really need to thin them out a bit more. You may notice a couple of dill plants in with the carrots. Dill is self seeding, so if you let them go to seed, you might have them growing anywhere in your garden the following year.
The green bean plants in the container garden seem to be doing quite well right now. You can also see the strawberries getting ripe in what's left of my strawberry bed. Once the strawberries have all ripened, I'm thinking about working up the entire bed so that I can plant some new plants for next year. I want to get rid of all the grass in the bed before I replant.
I have 2 cherry tomato plants in pots at the end of the container garden row. They're not growing very fast, but they're growing.
The raised bed behind the container garden is mostly marigolds from the seeds of last year's plants. I've dug up a bunch of these plants to put between the tomato plants in the garden, and there's still a lot of marigolds here. I planted my extra tomato plants in this raised bed because I didn't want to just throw them out.
Here's a look into my greenhouse from the west side door at the paste type tomato plants.
You can see the difference between the Amish Paste plants and the Roma plants, the Roma plants are shorter and have thicker foliage.
These are my succulents in the greenhouse. The one in the middle is a yucca that we grew from seeds we got in New Mexico on a trip through there.
My wild grape vine is really full of baby grapes this year, it's going to be quite the harvest.
The vine looks thin down on the snow fence because the deer eat everything that grows outside the fence, up to about 5 feet high. Above that height, the plant is thick with new growth.
One more picture. We planted a wildflower garden in the side yard last year, and the poppies seem to have seeded themselves prolifically. They're blooming really nicely right now.
That's all I have for this garden update. Thanks for stopping by my page to check it out!
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Is that a little train track by the beans? - @minismallholding
Looking really good.
So jealous of your poppies. We had some spontaneous ones last year, and I harvested the seeds so I could put them elsewhere this year, but forgot to sow them this year 😣
Love seeing how your garden has come along! Those poppies!
You got a lot going on there and everything looks amazing! What was the orange 5 gallon lids being used for i think underneath your beans... Was it to prevent flies?
Those things are under some of the tomato plants. They're called "tomato craters". They help prevent weeds from growing under the tomato plant, they're supposed to detur cutworms, and the red color reflects up into the tomato plant, which, according to research, is supposed to help the plant.