Garden Harvests

Today I rounded up some harvest photos. Harvests have been slow this year. Currently the tomatoes are the size of ping-pong balls and I have one cucumber that is ready to harvest. Not to mention the slow growing pumpkins, melons, beans and peppers. It does look like things will pick in August at least. Here are some of this years harvest shots:

Here goes a quick update on the garden: Currently I have two empty beds after harvesting the garlic and clearing the lettuce out. When it cools off this weekend I am going to plant some fall crops. For starters I am going to plant some dry beans and a couple rows of parsnips. Then weather permitting I will start planting some greens/lettuce/kale again, this might have to wait until later in August if it stays hot. 

Happy Gardening Everyone,
Dan

The Garden in June

Today seemed like a good day to update on the veggie patch. The remaining warm season crops were planted between the end of May and Beginning of June.  The last few days all the beans started breaking ground. Things are progressing slowly this year! I do hope everything start growing a little faster soon. Here are a series of photos of the garden:

 Overview, June 14

 Tomatoes, Peppers & Crenshaw Melons under the trellis.

 Lettuce, Snap Peas, Chinese Celery & Cucumbers under the trellis.

 Rutabaga, for fall harvest.

 Peppers, Bush & Pole Beans.

 Broccoli.

 Beans & Garlic.

 Herbs, Tomatilloes, Rhubarb and Pumpkins under the trellis.

In other news: This month I also completed the last section of fence in the yard, all 36" of it. If you have been reading here for a while you may recall I started fencing the yard in the Fall of 2008. Section by section and with a little neglect mixed in it is finally complete!

Quick Update

This evening I wrapped up a bunch of planting. It appears we are in the clear now weather wise. Seems to have been a long time coming this year hasn't it? 

I started by putting in the peas I started at the end of March. They were planted it peat pots so I made sure to plant the pot below ground. They have a tendency to dry out quickly if any of the pot is above ground. This year I am using old chicken wire and bamboo canes for support, both FREE.

Then I planted a whole bed of broccoli, 16 plants in total. These are nursery grown and frankly they aren't the nicest starts. Next year I am growing my own.

The second last task was the greens. This bed contains Red & Green Buttercrunch lettuce (nursery grown) and Winter Density lettuce, Red Deer Tongue lettuce, Tatsoi and Bok Choy (grown by me).

The last thing on the list was starting a bunch of warm season crops in the cold frame. Including Yellow Crookneck squash, Lilly Crenshaw melon, Double Yield cucumber, Autumn Crown pumpkin and Baby Bear pumpkin. They were all started in peat pots and will be planted out near the end of May. I thought I would spare you a picture of dirt filled pots :) 

Seedling Update

It was a beautiful day in the neighborhood! We hit 23c(73f), I'm in shorts and it sure was nice to feel some humidity.  I didn't do much in the way of gardening today but I thought I would share some photos of my veggie seedlings and some spring flowers in the yard.

Chinese Celery

Tomatoes, started about a week ago

Peppers, started in February

Assortment of Greens, I will plant these out next week.

Snap Peas. I also started another 10 pots today.

Scilla

Pansy

Crocus

Himalayan Primula

Iris reticulata. I planted these as a mix and they all came up purple. I already have a bunch of the purple ones.....

Crocus

Fern Leaf Peony

Well that's all for today. Now I am off to grill some chicken for dinner, in partial darkness :)

2013 Sowing Schedule

This year I refreshed my sowing schedule. Previously I had just used the one I didn't in 2010. I made this one a bit more comprehensive with outdoor planting dates. It's also still a work in progress until I get all the fall planting dates inputted. Once my Four Season's Harvest book arrives I will update it with all the fall stuff.