With all the blight and fungi, my plants are still growing beautifully for the most part. We are blessed abundantly blessed and I cannot wait to see what the Lord has in store for this year's harvest!
One of my favorite things when making dinner is walking right out my front door to gather the fresh herbs to add while cooking or to snip some lettuce for a fresh salad!
Herb "garden" right outside the front door
The three different times of leaf lettuce. They are all so delicious!
This was an extra tomato plant I had so I decided to give container tomato planting a try. This plant is growing beautifully due to the blight not being able to attack it as it has everywhere else on the ground.
It actually already has tomatoes forming!
In contrast, this is one of the tomato plants we've been fighting to save from blight and fungi. It is still alive, as are most of them, but looks really pathetic. Kind of reminds me of the "Charlie Brown Christmas Tree".
The side of house garden really needs weeded but with all that has been going on in these parts, I have not found the time Hopefully this weekend!
Peas - I just love the purple blooms!
We planted 16 pepper plants and surprisingly, the ones we thought were dying from transplant shock, are beginning to look as if they might make it!
The kale is beautiful to look at from the road and I am just amazed at how well it grows. This photo actually doesn't do it justice!
As I said, this side of house garden really needs weeding but here is a picture of the cabbage, cauliflower and broccoli plants.
These are also pepper plants. I think I am going to purchase some large containers and grow them in those. They weren't mature enough to transplant and the blight hit so I think I'm just going to stick to containers for them.
Back of house garden
Rows and rows of green bean plants!
Onions beginning to sow their little heads..
Beets
L-R -- Squash -> Pumpkins -> Cucumbers
Carrot and Radish bed - I began weeding it and the carrots were so small that they were coming out as well. I decided to give them time to grow and root better.
See the carrots popping up amongst the weeds?
Garlic bed - This is a perfect picture of what NOT to do with your garlic. See all those scapes that I never got to picking off? No? Well here's a better picture below!
So there are many areas that I need to work on in my garden. I need to convert weekend gardener to one that gardens like her family's food supply depends on it. But I do believe we are off to a good start.
How about you? How does your garden grow? Any advice for me on converting to a everyday gardener (besides get off my tail!) :)?
2 comments:
Looks great! I'm jealous of that container tomato, ours won't be that big for months yet!
Your garden looks great!!
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