Garden Update, April 24th

POTATOES
I think I left out pictures of the potatoes last time. They are loving all the rain we've had and have taken off. Since our wonderful Tennessee ground is rocky and hard and mostly clay, we have to grow backyard potatoes a little differently. The last few years Jeff has built "barrels" out of hardware cloth (wire mesh). As the plant grows he covers it with more dirt. The potatoes grow up along the stem underground. We know they are ready when the plant on top wilts and dies off.  The last few years we have had several very small potatoes. This year looks like we'll get quite a few!


CUCUMBERS & ZUCCHINI
We got five cucumber plants and four zucchini plants in the ground yesterday. We used silver mulch for our zucchini to hopefully keep the bugs off of them this year and the weeds down. I'll post more on that later.

PEPPERS
Last week, Jeff planted four jalapeno and four bell pepper plants. We mainly grow these to make pepper jelly... yum.  They both freeze really well, too.

OTHER
Check out the "What We're Growing" page on the right column to see a list of what we're growing.

  

Garden Update, April 10th

It's been a couple weeks since the last update. The weather here has been all over the place, so we've not been doing tons out there. Our frost date is this Friday, so it's we'll be hitting things pretty hard soon!

As you can see there are quite a few blooms:

I got the herbs in the pots today... at least 2/3rds! For the second year and a row, I haven't found any flat leaf parsley yet. I'll try again tomorrow. We've got Greek Oregano and Cilantro in there now.  The broccoli has also started coming to life. Still not very big though.

Our sugar snap peas have found their way out of the ground (yum!). The strawberries we planted this year seem to be duds, but our strawberries from last year (that we thought wouldn't produce much this year) have flowers all over them. So hopefully we'll have strawberries soon.  We've also gotten tons of asparagus... probably more than 30 spears, which is much more than last year.

We, with the rest of the world, went to Lowe's after church and got jalapeno, bell pepper, and zucchini plants. Hopefully we'll get our tomatoes and cucumbers started soon too!