Here's a status report on my little vegetable (and fruit) garden. Not everything grew from seed. My tomatoes just came up BUT they will never be ready for a late August or early September harvest. So I had to buy two beefsteak tomato and two San Marzano tomato startlings to add to the garden so that we'll have tomatoes in time. The seedlings are barely visible. Next year I will start those in May, inside my house, in containers.
Ditto for my eggplant and green/red peppers. The seedlings are up BUT they will never come to harvest in time. I bought two eggplant startlings and two green/red pepper startlings (in addition to what I already planted.
The cucumber and zucchini are doing really well! As is the spinach and mesclun salad mix (in oval plant base). The peas and the green beans are doing super well (in the white planter pots against the fence, to be used as a trellis for the climbing plants).
The peach tree is doing super well also. BUT if hubby doesn't cover the tree with the netting I purchased, I'm afraid my peach tree will meet the same demise as last summer: the squirrels and the birds ate every last peach! Hopefully, he can get to it this week.
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| The peach tree must have over 100 peaches on it! |
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| Here's a close up of the little darlings. |
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| As you can see, we are going to have lots of peaches this year. |
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| In the front are 4 beefsteak tomatoes. In the back are 2 San Marzano. In the center is basil and parsley. |
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| This raised bed contains cucumbers and zucchini. |
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| In the front is the eggplant. In the back are the green peppers. |
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| Center contains baby spinach. Circumference is mesclun salad leaves. |
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| Long shot of garden. White planters along back fence are peas and green beans. |
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| In the front wooden planters are pollinators I started from seed. Another full view of our peach tree. |
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Lovely garden. Yes the animals get to my crops before me here too.
ReplyDeleteHi Cindy, love the garden update. Hubby had to get plants also. We finally have flowers on the tomatoes and one little green tomato as of tonight. I have been following along with your writing, and will comment this weekend, it has been busy here.
ReplyDeleteYour garden is lovely, Cindy. We had peach trees also and had to beat the squirrels to get them every year. 😂
ReplyDeleteYour garden looks really nice. We've had so much rain this week, my garden needs sun.
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