The Gardens are looking great, but I’m too tired to take pictures! Here’s what we’ve been up to:
Planted 2 Better Bush tomatoes in the front yard. I did these varieties 2 years back in containers on our old deck, and they went crazy! Tons of tomatoes, and fast.
Ripped out the existing ‘flower/weed’ bed in the front yard and put in hydrangeas and wildflowers.
Cleaned out around “Hole”, our giant sequoia tree seedling we picked up a few years back in NoCal. Weeds were trying to choke him out after his transplant last Fall. Hole is now over a foot tall, and the same wide. Weird.
Built a gate from front yard to back yard. Built a gate and arbor from backyard to parking area in the back. These gates make the backyard look like, well, a backyard.
The red oak lettuce we planted in the half-whiskey barrel is GOING INSANE! Salad every night, give it away, it keeps coming. The cabbages next to it are also getting quite huge. My little nephew was over munching on all of it, and his mom said that was the most vegetables she’d ever seen him eat. I guess they’re about to plant to sustain his new found likeness of vegetation.
Strawberries in front yard are bearing fruit! 2 red berries, and a bunch of budding fruits right now. I can almost taste the buggers. Whoever the jackass was that said they would never grow in a planter box so close together is not getting any of these red beauts.
In the backyard garden, I have now 4 cherry tomato plants, 5 cauliflower, 2 zucchini, 2 pumpkin, and even more lettuces scattered throughout. The cherry toms are already in cages, loving these sunny days. Cauliflower are getting huge…wonder if they’ll give me anything. They were pretty much a ‘toss it in the ground and see what happens’ kinda deal. Pumpkins are also going off.
I also put in two 8×2 foot planters. One has 3 hills with summer squash seed, the other has the first planting of bush beans. I’m going to do 3 plantings of bush beans to see if I can make something happen.
I also have Hops (Centennial and Tettnanger) to figure out where to put in. I’m thinking along the fenceline.
Pics soon!