Garden Update

The garden after less than 2 months!

The garden 2 months ago.

tomato rows in May

 This is the garden as it appeared early this morning.  The squash plants and tomato plants are waist high and thriving.
The pepper plants may not be tall, but they are loaded with peppers!
I started harvesting zucchini and summer squash last week and so far have gotten 34.5 pounds; and there is much more that will be ready today, tomorrow, .....

tomato rows today

tomatoes  vining back and forth through fencing.

The lettuce is long gone.  The dill and Italian parsley have been doing great, the rosemary (the little plants at the left of this photo >  have been transplanted to the herb bed and have tripled in size!  Also the garden sage plant just above the rosemary in the photo.
The second raised bed is full of zucchini and summer squash, about a dozen plants, and they are all thriving.  The second "hooped" bed holds brussel sprouts and musk melon.

Photo on left is the tomato and pepper patch.
There are four tomato rows planted along cattle panels for support.  The green frame at the right front corner supports cucumbers, and those few green plants to the right of the shovel are green peppers.

Among all these are vagabond squash, pumpkin or watermelon plants which grew from the compost.


Photo to the right is the same view as above.
The 4 tomato rows, peppers, cucumbers and vagabond squash, etc.

The tomato plants are heavy with fruit and now I am just waiting on them to ripen.






The tomatoes weaving themselves in and out through the fencing.

This is the best tomato support  I have ever used!  The plants are well supported and it is easy to trim the plants and see the fruit.

The snap green beans are off to a slow start and I have had to restart have the seed (the wild rabbit ate half the seedlings).

I have sliced, blanched and frozen 11 pounds of zucchini and summer squash so far.  Today I will prepare another 10 pounds for dehydration, shred a couple of the very big zucchini for the freezer to use later in zucchini bread and other recipes.  We have also shared a few with the neighbors.  It's the least I can do since everyone has been very good about our new rooster's crowing.