Peppers!

Potatoes! - Yukon Gold

We harvested two plants for a potato salad.  It may have been a little early.  We will check back in a week.  These will be used in a potato salad.  We are having a sort of harvest supper cook out tomorrow, from our lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers, and potatoes.  The corn is still a couple of weeks away.

Beans! and Peas

Yesterday, we picked 7 lbs, and today another 2.8 lbs.  That is a lot of beans.  Next year I will stagger the plantings.  

And we had a few peas that survived (most did not come up due to the cold wet spring.  They were very juicy and tasty.

Raised bed greens

About 4 weeks ago I planted this raised bed.  We have enjoyed eating the red and green oak leaf over the past few days.

Super Chili Peppers

I got this super chili pepper plant at a local greenhouse in the beginning of June.   It's "fruit" seem to grow upwards.  I'll have to keep an eye on it.

Blueberries (minus the s)

The first ripe (non-bird acquired, savored by a human), blueberry of the season.  Many many more coming very soon.

Corn - Knee high by 4th of July

I don't know where the saying came from, but knee-high by the fourth of July is where you want your corn to  be at least in Vermont.  This the best our corn crop has ever been.   I should also mention this is also the first time we have planted corn :-)

Tomato!

This is our first tomato sitting in a a bowl of red oak and green oak leaf lettuce. The only thing that will make this a perfect salad is when the cucumbers are ready.  Just a couple more weeks...

Corn

The stalks are actually less than a foot tall, but I liked this photo.

Awesome progress

This row of potatoes is doing extremely well. They were planted in early May. They survived a couple of weeks on again off again flooding.  I think what may have saved them is tilling between rows which left the rows somewhat raised as this is a new garden bed.  This was after a 20 year pause in gardening in that location.  I feel very fortunate given that some farms just 20 miles north in Burlington Vermont faced flooding five times this spring. 

Future Expansion

More garden space for next year.  I will add lots of compost, till that under, plant a cover crop, and till that under next spring.

Tomatoes - first ones

These tomato plants were started as seeds indoors on March 5. I started them way too early. They were indoors until late May.  Next year I will do an April 1st start so they will not be so overgrown in their pots before transplanting for the last time outside.

Potatoes

The potatoes are growing like weeds.

And so are the bugs.  (This one stopped growing soon after.)

Frost in June?

Yep, it can happen. It only got down to 37f (43 under cover).

Flood waters have receeded

...and it looks like a garden too.

Wet start

I think this picture says it all. Atleast they are still standing.

Wet, wet, wet

After 2 inches of rain.  Drained fairly well considering.

Greens (and red) Harvest

This was oh so good. Red, green oak leaf type, and a little bit of spinach mixed in. From the greenhouse. 

They're Alive!

Potatoes are up!

Refugees

We had to put them somewhere. These were March 5 seeded, and I did not have the heart to compost them before they produce a tomato or 2. These were transplanted into the original 4x10 garden (tilled out to about 5x15 to take the early spring refugees).  Frost is still possible   likely.

The eyes have it

The potatoes are in.

Stevia - Hard to Grow?

They say Stevia is hard to grow from seed, and the germination rate is low.  Looking good from my point of view. 

Plan B

What to do if the first (too early) crop fails? Go to plan B. These micro blocks were created with a 20 block 3/4 inch soil blocker.  You only have to transplant those that don't germinate.  They save a lot of space - initially. 

New Garden

Freshly tilled. The bottom half (left) was tilled for the first time last fall (after 20 years of no garden, planted with Winter rye last fall). The top half was tilled for the first time today.

Overflow parking

Spring needs to arrive early... Running out of space