Planting It's all in

[Redcat]

Boy do I ache. We got a jump on the weekend planting and did it today, as it calls for rain starting tonight.

Five kinds of tomatoes, 4 pepper types, yellow and green beans, peas, lettuce, herbs, strawberries and a huge potato patch (red and white). Last years fancy potatoes were a bust and I can't afford to screw around with yield, so all standards this year.

I did the ground crops that the bunnies kept eating up last year on our second story deck in bags (old deck, no worries). All I need to get from the store are some cucumber plants. I did get the trellises in for them.

My brother did our corn with his this year. Too many deer here.

Time to relax a bit. It's all in.

 

[Border Collie Dad]

Peppers are all I have left to put in.
And a couple cantaloupes and watermelons

A suggestion about how to deal with your bunnies.

I had groundhogs (or something) eating my broccoli, cabbage and cauliflower.
Planted 3 times.
I bought a cheap little electric fencer at Tractor Supply and ran a wire around that patch.
No problems after that.
Cut up some Irish Spring soap.
I think it works

 

[Redcat]

Peppers are all I have left to put in.
And a couple cantaloupes and watermelons

A suggestion about how to deal with your bunnies.

I had groundhogs (or something) eating my broccoli, cabbage and cauliflower.
Planted 3 times.
I bought a cheap little electric fencer at Tractor Supply and ran a wire around that patch.
No problems after that.
Cut up some Irish Spring soap.
I think it works

I planted and replanted my beans and peas last year three times also. Finally gave up. And the deer ate the corn, I never replanted.

The soap would keep me away from the garden too, I hate Irish spring lol.

 

[Pinecone]

I hear ya, Redcat. I just finished getting mine in about an hour or so ago, and beat the rain by about an hour. Yep, tired. It's about 25 x 45 ft. I kept it 95% to veggies with a few flowers and herbs thrown in. Still have to finish the fencing, set up hoses and sprinklers, and put flower and herbs in pots, but the worst is over. YEAH!

 

[Publius]

With the injuries I have I'm running way behind here and just as well it's been a little to cool and wet to put any seeds in the ground. A friend has planted a number of times this year and the seeds have without germinating rotted in the ground.
I have a lot of work to get done and it seems I'm the only one that knows what to do, but I cannot move fast enough these days.

 

[Wildwood]

I hope to finish mine this weekend. We've had so many spring showers the last week or two, it's been hard to get in there and finish it all up. I'm about 2/3 done but still need to plant potatoes, squash and the rest of my tomatoes...got one row in about a week ago. When it's all done, I'm doing some experimental containers and more flowers in pots. Anything that will tolerate it, I start in solo cups so they have a head start but they are running out of room.

 

[Martinhouse]

My planting is finished except for the sweet potato slips and a few small pots of flowers that had to take a backseat, schedule-wise, to the food plants.

Potato plants are now over three feet tall and most are flowering. English peas finally blossoming.

Whole center section of my greenhouse is a mass of color from geraniums, petunias and lantana being in full, glorious bloom!

Have found out for sure that lots of little plastic forks DO keep the cats out of the soil in the outdoor containers!

EDIT: NW part of central Arkansas.

 

[oops]

Hope the ground dries out enough to finish this weekend...only have a fraction n...n at this rate the volunteer potatoes will be able to be harvested before the rest are n the ground...sigh...ohhh wellll creamed new potatoes n peas before the 4th of July will be nice...

 

[SouthernBreeze]

First year in 5 years that we've used our raised beds for gardening. They're all planted. 8 beefsteak tomatoes, 4 green bell peppers, 4 red bell peppers, 8 sweet banana peppers, 2 summer yellow squash, 8 hills of cucumbers, and 8 hills of pole beans. I've already got baby tomatoes and peppers. Cucumbers and pole beans are beginning to run, and the squash is beginning to bloom. We're thinking of adding more raised beds for fall planting, and will add more space for next year's garden space.

 

[Chicken Mama]

We finished planting a few weeks ago. Started everything indoors from seeds back in March except squash, potatoes and carrots that were direct seeded. The squash seeds germinated in two days.

We're near drowning from 9+ inches of rain this month so hoping the roots don't all rot.

 

[TerriHaute]

Our garden is all planted except for the hügelkultur mound and that is optional anyway. I was planning to put random leftover plants there, I started way too many in the greenhouse this year. We have had so many rainy days that it has been a challenge to get everything planted.

Planted so far: tomatoes, hot and bell peppers, lettuce, cabbage, onions, leeks, celery, cucumbers, herbs, okra, sweet potatoes, zucchini, Swiss chard, beets, yellow and green bush beans, pole beans, winter squash, and flowers to attract the pollinators.

Ready to pick: lettuce, green onions, strawberries, rhubarb.

 

[Wildwood]

My planting is finished except for the sweet potato slips and a few small pots of flowers that had to take a backseat, schedule-wise, to the food plants.

Potato plants are now over three feet tall and most are flowering. English peas finally blossoming.

Whole center section of my greenhouse is a mass of color from geraniums, petunias and lantana being in full, glorious bloom!

Have found out for sure that lots of little plastic forks DO keep the cats out of the soil in the outdoor containers!

EDIT: NW part of central Arkansas.

The flowers sound wonderful...next year I'm starting more. I did start a ton of french marigolds to plant between my tomatoes and a few cardinal climbers and cosmos to tuck into various places around my garden. My cypress vines didn't germinate and they were out of stock before I realized it. I did break down and buy some already started lantana, impatiens, moss rose and vincas. When I got ready to plant the moss rose in an old wheelbarrow I always plant it in, they had come up volunteer from last year. It was the first time in years that had happened.

I'm hoping we get time to build a greenhouse before next spring. It gets exhausting juggling all those flats of plants from the porch to folding tables in the yard. I have a big farm table in the dining room that holds twenty four flats but once they sprout they have to go outside so I can start more. When we get a late frost, they all have to come in to the dining room floor for the night.

I'm in western Arkansas about a hundred miles south of you.

 

[Martinhouse]

Wildwood, if you're 100 miles south of me, might that be around Arkadelphia? If so, I imagine you are a fair amount warmer than I am here north of I-40.

My greenhouse is attached to the south end of my house and is roughly 24' x 24'. After I built it, I bashed a hole in my outer living room wall and then framed it in and built a screen door and a nice little double inner door. If winter sun warms the greenhouse as high as 75 or 80 degrees, I can open those inner doors and let some "winter warm" into the living room, hall, and my bedroom. I love it! 2 years ago, my nephew changed the top of it to Lexan ( I think!) and I no longer need to put plastic on top during the winter. I only put plastic on the sides now and it is so much easier to manage. Petunias and Geraniums seem to be really cold hardy and I didn't even have to cover them during the coldest winter nights, and I had flowers all winter!

 

[Wildwood]

I'm further west, not all that far from the Oklahoma line and in the Quachitas so I am a little warmer but I do have a little elevation. I'm about an hour from I-40.

That is exactly what I've always wanted, a green house attached to our house but DH isn't wild about the idea for some reason. I think it would be so convenient to share warmth to or from the house and I'd love having flowers year round. I know our roof will be Lexan and maybe half the wall. I'm leaning toward a dirt floor, maybe with a layer of gravel. If I could talk him into adding it to the house, I might do a different floor but to be honest this house has had two porches and a room added to it and the yard is so shaded that there is only one spot a green house would work. Then it would sprawl out in yet another direction so the house would zig and zag.

 

[Martinhouse]

Wildwood, I made a little rim around my original garden next to the house. It was a 4" thick "berm" of concrete between the 4" x 4" posts. When I made this covered garden into an actual greenhouses, I smoothed the dirt, laid down black plastic, and paved the whole thing with the 8 x 16 x 2 inch patio blocks within the concrete berm. There is a bit of natural slope of the floor towards the front and away from the house, but the "roof" is level with the lines of the house, so the greenhouse has a high corner and also a low one where tall guys seem to find a way to smack their heads every time they walk out there! (:

I had originally put a 4' sidewalk all around the house, so that part of the whole thing didn't need the patio blocks. I do track in a little dirt and litter from crushed dead leaves, but nothing too bad.

You make your description of a zig-zagging house sound humorous, but I can see how an attached greenhouse might be hard to fit in.

I built 8' porches all across both front and back of my 24' x 40' house, so it's like a big 40' square itself and the greenhouse area is roughly 24' x 24', with a door at front and back inner corners that are at right angles to the house's porches. I would like a big storeroom across at least part of the north end of the house, but that won't ever happen...my house will just have to keep on resembling a prepper's warehouse. Good thing I don't have a spouse or a roomie!

I have what will be a bushel or more of small-stemmed celery, leaves, to harvest and dehydrate and then It will be clear enough in the greenhouse where my soon-to-be-planted sweet potatoes can enjoy how hot it gets out there! Then these should be ready to dig about when it's time to plant the kale and broccoli for nest winter's greenhouse crop.

I'll stop going on and on, but can you tell I really love my greenhouse!!!????

 

[Barry Natchitoches]

I can never say “it is all in.”

I do succession planting. When one thing comes out of the garden, something else goes in its stead.

I have a spring garden, a summer garden, an autumn garden and an “overwinter” garden.

The spring garden usually consists of romaine lettuce, buttercrunch lettuce, red heading lettuce, cabbage, broccoli, and maybe some cauliflower or kale.

The summer garden (what I have planted right now) usually consists of tomatoes, basil, sweet peppers, purple snap beans, southern peas, yellow summer squash, zucchini, and maybe eggplant or watermelon.

The autumn garden is romaine lettuce, buttercrunch lettuce, cabbage, broccoli, collard greens, and maybe some kale.

The “over winter garden” usually consists of spinach, turnip greens, or rye.


Then there is my perennial garden - righy now, that is just a strawberry patch.

I also never plant everything on the same day, or even in the same week.

I plant some today, some tomorrow, some next week...

This allows me to have something fresh coming in on a prolonged basis, rather than everything coming in at the same time.


My garden bed is growing SOMETHING almost the entire year. It is one reason why I do not ever have to till my garden.

I keep mulching the garden soil with a mix of shredded autumn leaves, small, broken tree twigs, and fresh grass clippings. Everytime I put in a new planting, I mulch it with that homegrown mulch. The thing is, that mulch has a tendency to compost right there on the garden bed. So this year’s mulch is next year’s fresh compost.

That allows me to keep putting in one vegetable after another, and have excellent results. The soil never gets tired, and the soil microorganisms and earthworms keep well fed.

Edited to add: I do scatter kelp meal, 20 mule team borax, powdered milk, epson salts, used coffee grounds, older (dried) chicken manure, and plain cornmeal into the top few inches of soil once, in the spring time. That is the only fertilizing that I do for the year. My beneficial soil microorganisms and earthworms take over from there.

 

[Wildwood]

I can never say “it is all in.”

I do succession planting. When one thing comes out of the garden, something else goes in its stead.

I have a spring garden, a summer garden, an autumn garden and an “overwinter” garden.

The spring garden usually consists of romaine lettuce, buttercrunch lettuce, red heading lettuce, cabbage, broccoli, and maybe some cauliflower or kale.

The summer garden (what I have planted right now) usually consists of tomatoes, basil, sweet peppers, purple snap beans, southern peas, yellow summer squash, zucchini, and maybe eggplant or watermelon.

The autumn garden is romaine lettuce, buttercrunch lettuce, cabbage, broccoli, collard greens, and maybe some kale.

The “over winter garden” usually consists of spinach, turnip greens, or rye.


Then there is my perennial garden - righy now, that is just a strawberry patch.

I also never plant everything on the same day, or even in the same week.

I plant some today, some tomorrow, some next week...

This allows me to have something fresh coming in on a prolonged basis, rather than everything coming in at the same time.


My garden bed is growing SOMETHING almost the entire year. It is one reason why I do not ever have to till my garden.

I keep mulching the garden soil with a mix of shredded autumn leaves, small, broken tree twigs, and fresh grass clippings. Everytime I put in a new planting, I mulch it with that homegrown mulch. The thing is, that mulch has a tendency to compost right there on the garden bed. So this year’s mulch is next year’s fresh compost.

That allows me to keep putting in one vegetable after another, and have excellent results. The soil never gets tired, and the soil microorganisms and earthworms keep well fed.

Edited to add: I do scatter kelp meal, 20 mule team borax, powdered milk, epson salts, used coffee grounds, older (dried) chicken manure, and plain cornmeal into the top few inches of soil once, in the spring time. That is the only fertilizing that I do for the year. My beneficial soil microorganisms and earthworms take over from there.

My goal is to do exactly what you are doing year round and to never have to till again...I'm working toward it and do some succession planting but up until now, I've been tied down by my business. I'm getting tired of working so hard and the price increases for all my raw materials have gotten so high, I'm closing the wholesale portion of it for at least a year or two but more likely for good. I'll keep doing retail but it will be so much easier.

Our yard is full of walnut and pecan trees so leaves for mulch are out but I process so much home grown stuff and do so much scratch cooking that I have a pretty good compost pile going. I do the Mittleider thing with borax, epsom salt and lime plus plain yellow corn meal where there are fire ants or nematode problems. I lean pretty heavily on Dr. Earth products and use an additional mycorrhizal innoculant as I plant and also fertilize through the growing season with the alph alpha, molasses and fish emulsion tea I brew up. All my coffee grounds and tea bags go in the compost. We also have a healthy number of earth worms.

 

[Wildwood]

Wildwood, I made a little rim around my original garden next to the house. It was a 4" thick "berm" of concrete between the 4" x 4" posts. When I made this covered garden into an actual greenhouses, I smoothed the dirt, laid down black plastic, and paved the whole thing with the 8 x 16 x 2 inch patio blocks within the concrete berm. There is a bit of natural slope of the floor towards the front and away from the house, but the "roof" is level with the lines of the house, so the greenhouse has a high corner and also a low one where tall guys seem to find a way to smack their heads every time they walk out there! (:

I had originally put a 4' sidewalk all around the house, so that part of the whole thing didn't need the patio blocks. I do track in a little dirt and litter from crushed dead leaves, but nothing too bad.

You make your description of a zig-zagging house sound humorous, but I can see how an attached greenhouse might be hard to fit in.

I built 8' porches all across both front and back of my 24' x 40' house, so it's like a big 40' square itself and the greenhouse area is roughly 24' x 24', with a door at front and back inner corners that are at right angles to the house's porches. I would like a big storeroom across at least part of the north end of the house, but that won't ever happen...my house will just have to keep on resembling a prepper's warehouse. Good thing I don't have a spouse or a roomie!

I have what will be a bushel or more of small-stemmed celery, leaves, to harvest and dehydrate and then It will be clear enough in the greenhouse where my soon-to-be-planted sweet potatoes can enjoy how hot it gets out there! Then these should be ready to dig about when it's time to plant the kale and broccoli for nest winter's greenhouse crop.

I'll stop going on and on, but can you tell I really love my greenhouse!!!????

I would love your greenhouse too and the pavers sound like a great floor idea. We are talking about taking in part of the back porch to enlarge my food storeage/canning/etc. area. My kitchen is big, old and over used. Thank goodness my DH has always been tolerant of all my eccentric ways and the stacks of canned goods before we built a small pantry.

 

[anna43]

Yesterday I hoed most of the garden and replanted squash as none had germinated. Today I went to the basement and found cucumber seeds to replant and when I got outside discovered some I'd planted earlier were up. I stuck in a couple of the new seeds just in case. I built the berm for sweet potatoes and planted them today. Also, finished hoeing the garden and hilled the first two rows of potatoes. I'm exhausted!!

Also, dealing with a boil order due to water main break. I had water boiled for washing dishes but was too tired to do them so that's up first tomorrow.

I no longer have this because the wind blew all the windows and broke them, but for a brief time I had a pit greenhouse. We dug a 3-foot-deep rectangular hole, put bricks in the bottom, built up a back and then sloped windows from the back to the ground at front. Don't recall exactly how we did the sides except one side had steps cut into the ground and a door. This was right after the tornado and the back of the greenhouse was a portion of the solid wood door off the old garage (gone with the wind) and the glass was storm windows off the old house which had been stored in the basement. It worked pretty good. I filled gallon milk jugs with water and covered them with black plastic as a heat sink. I think the idea came from The Mother Earth News back before it became a yuppie magazine.

 

[night driver]

I'm a perineal slacker, I guess. (Sp intentional LOL)

For the past 4 days, I have had dirt under my fingernails and IT IS GOOD!!

In a week or 10 days, I will drag pics of my micro-garden in here so y'all can snicker or belly laugh and cast aspersions (deserved) at the effort.

BUT I GUARAN-DANG-TEE you that RELIC will have enough edible pea pods to keep her happy in about 60 days FOR about 2 weeks, so life will be MUCH easier in late August...

 

[packyderms_wife]

I have cucumbers, zucchini and beans to plant yet.

 

[Barry Natchitoches]

I was watering the garden today, and my eye caught glimpse of something yellow under all the large, green leaves in my squash patch.

I figured it was probably some of those gigilo males that Southern Breeze has been growing in her squash patch, so I pushed back the greenery - and there lie several young crooked neck squash, about 5 or 6 inches long!

I guess my squash plants have been doing the Hanky Panky while I was looking the other way!

Anyway, I harvested and cooked the first yellow squash of the season today...

XXX

 

[packyderms_wife]

I was watering the garden today, and my eye caught glimpse of something yellow under all the large, green leaves in my squash patch.

I figured it was probably some of those gigilo males that Southern Breeze has been growing in her squash patch, so I pushed back the greenery - and there lie several young crooked neck squash, about 5 or 6 inches long!

I guess my squash plants have been doing the Hanky Panky while I was looking the other way!

Anyway, I harvested and cooked the first yellow squash of the season today...

XXX

Yum!

 

[dioptase]

I wasn't going to have a kitchen garden at all this year (other than the lingering bunching onions, and the perennial chives, garlic chives, and mints), because of the drought, and fear of impending water cutoff. (I am also having severe mobility problems right now as both knees are shot, and the surgeon wants to kick knee replacement down the road, so we are currently trying to get the insurance company to agree to hyaluronic acid.)

Well, DH has bought tomatoes from the farmers' market twice now (this season), and they have been just awful. Whining and complaining on his part: "Why didn't you plant tomatoes?". Explanations on my part. Counter from him: "Why didn't I have a say in this?"

So I went and ordered 6 plants online. (My preference is non-hybrid, heirloom tomatoes, and if I don't have my own tomato seedlings and can't find what I want locally, then I get them from here: See available varieties ). While she wasn't selling a favorite of ours this year ('Stupice'), I did get my choice of 6 different tomato plants, with no subs, and now I have to plant them out.

I had my garden helper do the heavy work of de-rooting the beds (redwood roots are awful), and adding compost, but he didn't bring the soil level up enough in one bed (naturally the first one I wanted to plant). Since I am now out of compost, I added a couple of bags of planting mix. I'm taking a break right now, but then I have to go back out and dig in the fertilizer, add the tomato cages, and then I can finally plant TWO of the tomatoes, in that one bed. And then I have to mulch and water them in.

That will leave me four to go.

And I'm already sweaty and exhausted.

 

[Pinecone]

I wasn't going to have a kitchen garden at all this year (other than the lingering bunching onions, and the perennial chives, garlic chives, and mints), because of the drought, and fear of impending water cutoff. (I am also having severe mobility problems right now as both knees are shot, and the surgeon wants to kick knee replacement down the road, so we are currently trying to get the insurance company to agree to hyaluronic acid.)

Well, DH has bought tomatoes from the farmers' market twice now (this season), and they have been just awful. Whining and complaining on his part: "Why didn't you plant tomatoes?". Explanations on my part. Counter from him: "Why didn't I have a say in this?"

So I went and ordered 6 plants online. (My preference is non-hybrid, heirloom tomatoes, and if I don't have my own tomato seedlings and can't find what I want locally, then I get them from here: See available varieties ). While she wasn't selling a favorite of ours this year ('Stupice'), I did get my choice of 6 different tomato plants, with no subs, and now I have to plant them out.

I had my garden helper do the heavy work of de-rooting the beds (redwood roots are awful), and adding compost, but he didn't bring the soil level up enough in one bed (naturally the first one I wanted to plant). Since I am now out of compost, I added a couple of bags of planting mix. I'm taking a break right now, but then I have to go back out and dig in the fertilizer, add the tomato cages, and then I can finally plant TWO of the tomatoes, in that one bed. And then I have to mulch and water them in.

That will leave me four to go.

And I'm already sweaty and exhausted.

But they sure will be good later this summer! Can your DH help?

 

[dioptase]

I'll have him haul bags of mulch for me, as I need them. Otherwise, I prefer to do all the planting tasks myself. (He knows nothing about gardening.)

 

[Wildwood]

I haven't mentioned this yet but my entire garden except the raised beds was damaged by a flood Friday morning...most of it destroyed just as I had put in the finishing touches. The huge logs DH keeps to run through his sawmill did most of the damage to my trellises. Any ground that was loose from planting, completely eroded and a lot of that dirt I'd amended for years is gone. We live on a creek and that's the price you pay for living in one of the most beautful places on earth. Had it been winter with nothing planted in the ground rows and the dirt packed down, it would have just amounted to some clean up and redoing trellises..

My sweet DIL and son started right in cleaning it up as soon as the water went down...it goes up, peaks, and immediately starts back down so it was down in a couple hours. My raised beds are thirty inches high...another four inches and they would have had water over them too. DS got the tractor and removed the logs. They drug the lumber out by hand. They patched up what trellises they could and by that afternoon, with the scorching heat that followed the rain they were already tilling to fill in the ravines...it was that dry already. My DIL patiently salvaged some of my tomatoe plants and other things and got them back in the ground, coaxed what was left of the peas and greasy grit beans back up to the trellises and helped me find those very, very expensive walking and green mountain onions I finally decided to order this year. There's misc. recovered plants stuck everywhere in my big raised bed I put a hodge podge of stuff in. I've had offers of tomato plants to replace the whole row I lost and I went to town this afternoon and got a few flowers to replace the ones that went down the creek.

Our chicken pen was majorly damaged too. The side with pullets got hit the worst and I lost 11 of the 14 in there...no bodies so I'm pretending they floated down creek to a wonderful new home. I started out with 21 and for the first time ever, about three weeks ago we got cocci in that pen and I lost a few. As soon as that cleared up, the buffalo gnats came...the worst case we'd ever had but it had rained all spring. I lost two grown hens and several more pullets the first night they hit. I'm now down to three pullets but all my adult chickens survived the flood so my layers are still laying. After all the work I did to bring in bielefelders, I'm left with two gentle but frisky roosters and about 8 viable eggs in the incubator. The cocci and the gnats hit them much, much harder than any other breed I have. I'm second guessing the decision to bring them in. They are a German breed and normally my area wouldn't be such a bad fit but our weather seems to be changing.

This is the first time in 32 years it's been that high but the thing that worries me most is the fact that lately, all we've learned about the weather, rainfall amounts, etc. for our area, is changing. The water rose extrememly fast which isn't the usual pattern. We got an unusual amount of rain in a short time and the trajectory of the overflow was different. We can do something about that.

I'm not devestated or in a panic. I've received a ton of love and sympathy because everyone knows how much I enjoy my garden and my chickens. I'm replanting what I can. It's not quite too late. For years this was about the time I was able to plant because of work demands. This is just further proof that we need to have backups to our backups and not let the bumps in the road get us down.

 

[ioujc]

You have an EXCELLENT ATTITUDE!!

Having the kind of loss you have experienced takes COURAGE to pick yourself up and try again. I see that you have that type of bravery and respect you for it!! Allow yourself some pampering and a few treats.....then get up.....as you already have and get in with it.

Wishing prosperity and blessings of peace for you!!

 

[Wildwood]

You have an EXCELLENT ATTITUDE!!

Having the kind of loss you have experienced takes COURAGE to pick yourself up and try again. I see that you have that type of bravery and respect you for it!! Allow yourself some pampering and a few treats.....then get up.....as you already have and get in with it.

Wishing prosperity and blessings of peace for you!!

Thank you so much ioujc. I'm doing just that. I've already been out this morning fine tuning the work my kids already started. It's a miracle that I've managed to combine what survived and have a whole row of tomatoes left. Next I'll be reseeding the peas and beans. Just enough survived thanks to DIL that we'll be that much ahead. I just want enough to can and it's early, I can make that happen...thank you Lord!

I did get a little upset when two young bulls showed up in my yard this morning and went in the direction of my garden and my hollering and hand waving didn't phase them. DS was working across the road and got them out. When the dust settles a little, maybe later this week, I'm starting a few more seeds to transplant when they are big enough.

 

[Pinecone]

I'm sorry to hear about your garden and chickens, Wildwood. I hear ya about weather. This has been quite the year. I hope your garden grows well now and that you get a full hatching of your eggs. It was nice of your DH and son to help clean up the disaster. That had to have helped a lot. Good luck with the rest of the year!

 

[seraphima]

My garden is in except one bed which still needs some heavy weeding. The calendula are going in that one, and the small plants are happily growing in one part of another bed prior to transplanting.
Overall, two beds of potatoes, 1 1/2 of onions, a very big bed of garlic, 2 perennial beds of rhubarb, one of strawberries, one of kale (Red Russian), a mixed bed with lettuces, green onions, radishes, etc. Spotted here and there are nasturtiums and calendula for flowers, food , and medicine. Large containers include carrots, peas, more lettuce, parsley, sage, chives and garlic chives. The perimeters are planted with black currants, serviceberry, raspberry, honeyberry and salmonberries... Temps outside today? 57 degrees.

 

[Wildwood]

My garden is in except one bed which still needs some heavy weeding. The calendula are going in that one, and the small plants are happily growing in one part of another bed prior to transplanting.
Overall, two beds of potatoes, 1 1/2 of onions, a very big bed of garlic, 2 perennial beds of rhubarb, one of strawberries, one of kale (Red Russian), a mixed bed with lettuces, green onions, radishes, etc. Spotted here and there are nasturtiums and calendula for flowers, food , and medicine. Large containers include carrots, peas, more lettuce, parsley, sage, chives and garlic chives. The perimeters are planted with black currants, serviceberry, raspberry, honeyberry and salmonberries... Temps outside today? 57 degrees.

That all sounds wonderful! It's been around 100 here ever since the rain stopped so that what the flooding didn't get, the sun is cooking. My bell peppers have been hit hardest of all. From now on they are going in a row that gets partial shade part of the day. The one year I planted them there, I had a bumper crop...sometimes it takes me forever to learn! For the record, 100 is not the norm for us in June. Maybe end of July or August but it is relentless here this year and the next seven days are hotter than sin.

Also, DH has covid again and I'm sure I'll be next so I have plans to replace what seeds need replacing in my peas and beans tomorrow and give the rest of this summer to The Big Guy. I'll take it one day at a time and do what I can. I plan and God laughs lol. Still, I'm hitting WM up tomorrow to see if I can fid any starts left that I can use to replace stuff that got washed away and I'm getting more mulch to see if I can keep some moisture in place....last Friday I had two feet of water covering my place and today, it's drying out too much. DH has tons of great mulch making stuff but he won't feel like running the chipper any time soon and I don't have time.

The ironic thing is we have a brand new irrigation system sitting in boxes on the dining room floor and with DH sick, I'm not sure when we can get it in but I'm so thankful it's still in the boxes. It would have been completely destroyed had it been in place last Friday.