The garden

Well, it’s finally done! The garden is in! I can’t believe how late in spring it is?! Usually by Memorial Weekend we're finally putting our tomatoes and peppers out and everything else is already planted. But they actually made it into the greenhouse before most of the other things even got put in!  We’ve just had a cold, rainy spring. Not really conducive to putting in a garden. I’m hoping we’ll start to see a bit warmer weather so the little seeds can start growing. Even after we got things planted, we’ve had more rain. Rain is nice; you don’t have to spend so much time watering, but we don’t want the little seeds rotting in the ground before they have a chance to sprout either! 

So everyone was home over the holiday weekend and pitched in to help get things done. Nice! So if all goes well we’ll have peas, carrots, beans ( adzuki, black, cannellini, & pinto-dry for shelling), cucumbers (3 varieties), crookneck & zucchini, pumpkins, swish chard, onions, beets, garlic, green beans, potatoes, melons, lettuce, spinach, strawberries, tomatoes, peppers, artichoke, grapes and raspberries! Yum! A couple of the raised beds are full of herbs too: sage, oregano, parsley, chives, cilantro, dill, and basil. Oh, I love fresh basil! And if our two little apple trees and two little pears trees cooperate we may even get something from them this fall.

So I snapped a few pictures of the garden as it looks now. It doesn’t really look like much at this point, but if I take some more in a couple months hopefully we’ll see a big difference!

Now where was that hoe? I’m sure the rain has helped the weeds along!