June 2nd Garden Update

Lots of work and progress in the garden this week; it's only been a week and things start to look very different. The weather is dry in our area, we only had 1 short shower last week. The Shishito peppers love the heat and have gotten so much bigger than last week. I didn't have…

Gardening Progress

I'm still not done planting all my vegetables. I was making a good progress until fellow gardeners gave me more herbs, plants, seeds and it's quiet a challenge to find space for them. This year, I only plant the vegetables that I want to eat, the Purple Perilla came up this year and I got…

Planting in Progress

I didn't get to plant until early May and I'm about 50 % done planting. These are the pepper seedlings, a bit small but I think they will survive. The cucumbers are coming up nicely. The Chayote plants are from last year's fruits. The tomato seedlings are small, we had heavy rainfall yesterday and not…

Seedlings

We had a lot of rainfalls in our area, almost every weekend. This will be the first sunny weekend in a long time and it's time to clean the garden and prepare the planting bed. On the meanwhile, I started the seedlings a few weeks back and it's starting to sprout. I purchased my seed…

Seeds

The best seeds are the ones from the previous year's garden, I have to say that I'm not as disciplined collecting the seeds and something to work on this year. The Chayote fruits are from last year's garden, I keep them in the garage sitting on top of the potting dirt. They are ready to…

Garden 2018 Update

I had a good harvest this year, despite not having as much time to spend in the Garden this Summer. The Chayote harvest was in the middle of November, this plant likes the cool weather and not ideal if we had an early frost. This year was not too bad, I had a good turn…

Garden 6-9-2018 Everything Planted

I was late in planting my garden due to the cold weather and didn't get started until the end of April and just finished planting a few herbs last week. Last week we didn't get any rain, which meant watering the garden every day. I was glad to see that we have some rain this…

Garden 5-29-2018 Rain

I don't know if my garden needed a break from the rain, I know I do. It has been raining for several days now. Everything is growing rapidly, even the straw starts to grow grass.  I would like to be able to go out and work in the garden again, I still have lemongrass to…

Camping on Memorial Day Weekend

This year we decided to camp at my house for Memorial Day Weekend since we have a big enough space to park the camper. My dad and sister bought their RV on Friday and stayed for the weekend. My goal is to make a private campground in the wood but it will take a lot…

Garden 5-15-2018 Ferterized and Straw Mulched the Plants

More colorful decorations in my garden, Bo gave me the two windmills for Mother's Day and Lee gave me the garden rain gauge. The garden rain gauge is a good size and I sure will get a good use out of it. The plants are big enough now to put down the straw mulch. My straw…

Garden 5-10-2018

A few days late in posting, the garden is coming along nicely. The apple and Asian pear trees that I purchased from Stark Bro's last year survived their first winter. The basils seem to adjust well to the inground planting pots. This part of the garden is sloped and the water washes the garden soil downhill.…

Planting the Garden

It was cold up until last week, and so much pollen in the air that I was in no shape to go out and prep the planting bed. It rained most of last week also so I didn't feel as guilty not being such a good gardener. Since the weather is warm enough now to garden, I tried…