Hello, hivers! Welcome to my garden!
So, today is the first of June. It kind of snuck up on me sooner than I expected. I decided to take a walk around the garden today to get some pictures of the garden at the beginning of the summer growing season.
I'd like to start this show and tell with a look at my blueberry bushes. I had to replace one of the 4 bushes because a rabbit got to one of them last winter and ate it down to just a stub. The other 3 bushes didn't bloom this year, but they're growing nicely.
This bush is a bit crowded by the irises.
This is the replacement for the one that got eaten down, it's still pretty small.
Here's a better look at the irises, with the blueberry bushes in the raised bed beyond the flowers. The tree trunk is one of our 2 apple trees.
Now for the garden.
This is the corn patch for this year. Last year, I grew red potatoes in this plot. Most of the corn seeds came up, a few had to be replanted. This is another type of heirloom field corn that we're trying this year. It's an old type of white corn.
The carrots are continuing to do well. I still need to do a bit of thinning so I'll get bigger carrots.
The green beans I planted in the raised bed are mostly up now. A few are missing, if they don't come up in the next day or 2, I'll put some new seeds into the empty spaces. The plants are bush type, I use the short tomato cages to help hold the plants up when they get big so that they don't fall over and leave the beans in the dirt. The short fence around the edges of the raised bed keeps the cats out of the bed.
The tomato plants that I put out early seem to be doing well right now.
I started planting the rest of my tomato plants into the garden today. I only got 3 plants put in, but it's a start. I only had 2 of the tomato craters left to use, so I used them. These 3 plants are Amana Orange plants, a medium size "beefsteak" type.
Now for the container garden.
Most of the big pots in the container garden were planted with bush type green beans, 5 seeds per pot. Most of them have come up. I seem to be missing 1 plant in each pot, but I can put new seeds in the empty spots if they don't come up. You can see the flowers on the strawberry plants next to the containers.
At the end closest to the greenhouse, I planted a cherry tomato plant in the pot. Cherry tomatoes seem to do well in big pots, they make good porch plants. The empty pot is a bit too small for tomato plants, but I might plant several of the marigolds in it eventually.
There's a few volunteer potato plants coming up in random places in the main garden, growing from potatoes I missed when I dug them last fall. They're still very small and hard to get a picture of, so I don't have any pictures of them.
That's all I have for this post, thanks for stopping by to check it out!
It's looking good!
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Things in the garden are coming along really nicely. Every time I see that rail system, I'm totally impressed.
Blueberries, my all-time favorite. We are fortunate to have a field of wild blueberries that we harvest from every year. You can pick them until your arms drop off. Last year we picked 55 pounds of them. It took @farm-mom and I 10 different excursions to the patch to pick that many.
Here is the bounty from a picking.
The trail to the berry patch is not an easy one, so I've been transplanting some of the young offshoots back here on the farm so that when I can no longer make the hike, I still got my berries.
Maybe I could build one of those rail systems to get me back and forth to the berry patch. 😁
Have a wonderful day.
It's good to have a blueberry patch close to home! 😀
You could probably build a garden railroad if you wanted to. You can get aluminum rail that's easier to work with than using steel T-posts like I'm doing, it just costs a bit...
You can get all kinds of stuff for a backyard railroad, but nothing is cheap. That's why I'm doing it the hard way, it's the least expensive way...
Very interesting concept for using around the garden. I love staying busy, I may have to add that to the list, the never-ending list that @farm-mom keeps nice and FAT.
She has to keep you busy somehow... 😀
Staying busy keeps us oldtimers sharp.
True enough, or at least less dull...LOL
This reply made me LOL. 😁