Moving along...

The vegetable garden is coming along slowly. With new-found intolerance to some vegetables, i have had to rethink my garden. Tomatoes and Peppers are not good for me. So this year i have planted onions, beets, peas and parsley... you can see them in the picture. I also planted squash, beans, carrots and lettuce. I'll be getting some cabbage plants from my father tomorrow.

Seems that with most of my gardening it involves edging and weeding. With the ongoing wet weather the weeds are going crazy. I'm not keeping up with them very well... sigh...

We have Produce...

My vegetable garden has done pretty well so far. The tomatoes are producing like crazy. Both the little pear tomatoes and my heirloom red ones. I harvested the two cabbage heads for halushki a few days ago. I'm patiently waiting for my peppers to start their second round of production. My golden beets are delectable. I'll have one more bunch of them. I have two pumpkins... one already turning orange. The butternut squash will be good in the fall. And i've got to make more pesto because i have so much basil.

My melons started out well but have stopped growing to maturity... :-( One has already rotted on the vine. Dad mentioned that they can be very temperamental to grow. And I really want to try beans again next year.

Veggies!

The vegetable garden is doing really well. The peppers have been giving me a steady crop... not too many to overwhelm me. I'm patiently waiting for my second tomato and i did notice that my pear tomatoes are starting to yellow-up. I'll be harvesting beets in a day or two... special golden ones. I have been thrilled with my columnar basil... it's more like a shrub and it's compact growth is a really nice feature. The cabbage are growing nicely and my Mom's comment about placing mint near them seems to have helped deter any pests... i had to thin out my pineapple mint, so i placed it to dry around the cabbage. I noticed one pumpkin so far, a bunch of butternut squash and a couple melon.

In go the Veggies...

This evening i took some time to finish up the vegetable garden fence configuration. I then proceeded to plant. The peppers and tomatoes from Burpee were looking weary so i really felt it a good idea to get them into the ground. I also planted seeds of melon, squash, pumpkin, beets, and beans... and sunflowers on the outside of the fence. Once my basil grows a bit more, i'll transfer it to the garden. Let the growing begin!

Fences...

I have a small vegetable garden this year. Its about 4 ft x 8 ft. I have the area that is growing lettuce and beets surrounded by a cage. I thought it was adequate protection from the critters. Yesterday I had to fence most of my garden... that was after chasing out an adolescent bunny who had a taste for cabbage. I called it a "hunky bunny". I was more fortunate than my Dad. Deer came in and decimated his garden... especially the tomato plants. Ironically, Dad was close to having his electric fence in place.

Garden bed...

The heat wave that we had been experiencing has broken this evening. So I hurriedly starting creating the vegetable garden bed that i had been planning. We de-turfed it and turned the soil once and added compost. I still need to turn the soil and work the compost in to it before planting my pepper plants that have been waiting. At least the hardest part is out of the way. I hope the weather stays cooler for a little while.