It has been a heck of a year for gardening. It started out cold and wet, then super hot and dry, and now it's back to cold and wet. But I am finally getting my seedings planted!
Dill's Atlantic Giant pumpkin plant, all by itself (it needs the space!) and snow peas (to add nitrogen to Mr. Giant's soil)
Mammoth Gold pumpkin and shell peas (scattered throughout the pumpkin and squash section - extra nitrogen in the soil, plus one of my friends REALLY likes shell peas) and Jack Be Little pumpkins (cute tiny pumpkins for the grandkids)
Delica squash (seeds harvested from a squash I ate last fall), wheat plant (from a 2020 lockdown experiment), and vine-type zucchini)
Bush-type zucchini, volunteer kale plant from last year (going to seed), basil
Bunch onions (the blooming ones are from last year, the smaller ones are volunteers), eggplant, parsley (last year's in back)
Leek (from last year), red peppers ("King of the North"), Hungarian hot peppers, jalepeno peppers
Artichoke plant experiment on deck - these guys may end up in the garden
Single surviving okra plant and a super happy hops plant
Tomatoes: My Marglobe plant died from damping off disease and was replaced with a Big Boy tomato plant (gift); the cherry tomato does not look happy, I may need to buy a replacement; the Roma tomatoes are hanging in there
The infant Carolina Reaper is growing slowly, but is still going strong
Happy raspberry patch (second year, growing like crazy!)
Grown up asparagus, storing up energy for next year's crop
That's all for today! I'll post again when the plants have grown up more. 😊
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That is an impressive and beautiful garden 🪴
Thank you, 2015 was a good year - I hope Mother Nature starts behaving herself soon, though, or 2021 will not be a good year in the garden...
Really green and beautiful garden! I didn’t know asparagus got that tall
Thank you, it is my therapy. 😊 That's what happens to asparagus if you don't pick the spears. You can only pick for a few weeks, then you have to let it grow up so it can feed the root system for next year's crop.
Interesting! Very pretty plants
Wow this is a wonderful garden Jeannine! You’ve done a great work 😊 I hope I have a garden like yours one day! 👌🏼
Thank you! It's more therapy than work to me, though. You certainly have a green thumb, so I'm sure you can make anything grow. 🙂
I find it very therapeutic and relaxing as well 😊 thank you dear! Hopefully 👌🏼💚
Wow! Very nice setup!
Thank you, my very nice husband built the raised beds for me. 😊
Beautiful garden. I didn't know how asparagus looked like mature, interesting! I hope the artichokes will keep up growing 😍
Thank you! I'm sure they'll keep growing, the question is whether they grow fast enough to bloom before fall frost hits.