The weather here has been a little rainy.
Don't get me wrong - I am not complaining about the rain.
We need
every precious drop.
Our field is
appreciating it and I love seeing the thunderstorms at night.
I grew up on the great plains of Nebraska and
nothing beats
watching a storm roll in and light up the sky.
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| A nice big rainstorm headed our way. |
On to the garden update!
Farmer D and I have slowly been
planting the three gardens.
You read right - three
gardens.
And for the record, yes, we are crazy.
The main garden is off the chicken coop and about 50 ft x 25 ft in
size.
We recently had to put taller wire
around it to keep the chickens from digging up everything we planted and making
the garden their main dust bath locale.
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| The coop garden. |
We already have an established rhubarb plant
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| Mmm...rhubarb! |
and walking
onion patch in the garden.
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| Egyptian walking onions |
Last fall I planted two types of garlic and they are growing
well.
I’m really looking forward to harvesting them!
So far we have planted 13 tomato plants, 6 cabbage and 4 different bell peppers, 3 jalapeno plants, a poblano
and Anaheim pepper.
We also have
Japanese hull-less popcorn and carrots, strawberries, 5 cucumber plants and
plunked in a lovely dill for use with pickles this fall.
Amazingly, we still
have room for more in this garden.
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| Newly planted Tomatoes with marigolds. |
The pasture garden is going to be our large
sweet corn,
potato, onion, watermelon, pumpkin and beans patch.
Two weeks ago we planted five 50 foot rows of sweet corn.
I plan to do four total plantings 2 weeks apart to try to stage the flood of corn we will (hopefully) get around August to September.
That will give us five 200 ft rows of sweet corn.
Woah.
Woah.
Anyone want to place an early order?
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| Pasture Garden |
The entire 150 ft row of potatoes I planted is coming in nicely.
I planted red, purple, Yukon gold and russet.
Based on how well things are looking I’ll be leaving potatoes in ‘ding dong ditch’ on our neighbors’ doorstep.
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| Purple potatoes |
Farmer D and Erline hilled up the potatoes last night
which should help increase the yield.
I am anxious to pull out some of the first new potatoes
and roast them with rosemary and olive oil! Yum!
And the onion sets are starting to take
off.
I may actually get decent sized
onions for the first time ever.
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| The onions are still tiny but looking good! |
The last garden we established this weekend is my kitchen
herb garden.
I have always want one and now it is here!
Only 8 x 10, it is just off the back porch near the kitchen.
We’ve planted tarragon, thyme, cilantro, parsley, basil
and marjoram, rosemary
and Italian oregano.
I'll grab a photo tonight. :(
My co-workers are eagerly awaiting the summer bounty
as our
little family of four will be overrun with veggies.
If the rain will just keep coming it will really help!
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| Gorgeous lightning during a thunderstorm. |