The potatoes, onions and garlic are
growing nicely. At least I think they are since I've never grown any of them before. I dug down deep in the bed to start the potatoes and now the hills are about 2' high and now I am letting the greens grow. The onion greens are more than a foot tall.Meanwhile the carrots have sprouted and the tiny bits of green are about an inch tall. The zuchinni and summer squash have their second set of leaves and I can't wait to see the flowers. On the other hand, the peppers I started from seed are not doing at all well. It took weeks for them to sprout, and weeks later they are still only a couple of inches tall and have only their first leaves. I gave up on them, somewhat, and made a trip to the garden center to buy some more established plants. I lost about half of the tomato plants I started from seed and replaced those with some from the garden center.
So far, this years garden is getting off to a disappointing start. I gave all the plants a fresh start in compost that I have been cultivating since last summer and gave them a little boost with some organic fertilizer.
I still need to plant the corn and winter squash.
beans. I grew these years ago and loved them. I also remember how tall the vines grew, so we built a tall, strong frame for them. The beans I planted only 4 or 5 days ago have already sprouted and are looking strong. My fingers are crossed, perhaps we will have a good crop. In a couple of weeks I plan to start another planting of the beans.Recalling how tall the KW Bean vines grew we built this trellis for them. There are two of these forms, one at each end of the bed, and strung cable across from one end to the other, and then across from cable to cable above each bean row. I still need to suspend netting for the beans to climb up, but it's been raining so that will need to wait a bit.
I have devoted most of the garden to tomatoes, since we use so much throughout the year. All I can do now is wait and watch.
