I Forgot the Corn!

I forgot to post a photo of my corn, this one taken Tuesday.

 

 

There are 33 stalks in my corn patch, along with the three black-eye peas.  The corn really shot up in the past two weeks, but then we've has some rain and warm days.  This is my original bed that I created in 2013 and then expanded in 2015. 

 

Will write more next week, until then, never give up, never surrender, and may all your dreams come true.

Garden Update April 25 2017

What a difference a few weeks makes!  Here are some recent photos of my gardens.

The tomatoes are doing great!  I have a soaker hose in this bed to make watering easier.

You can see three tiny carrots at the bottom of the photo.  I have eight radishes, seven onions, and five cotton plants here, all doing really well.

This is a mixed bed with bell peppers, cucumbers, okra, a jalepeno, dill, and loofah vines.  The small clay pots have marigolds and nasturtium seedlings that I just needed to get into pots.  I'll be out of town for a few days and needed to do something with them before I left.  I'll transplant them into the appropriate beds when I get back.  I also have ten marigold sprouts in 4-inch pots that will be repotted into larger pots when I get back

I moved a few things around in the beds in front of my house.  From Left to Right: blackberry, canna, Mexican Olive, canna, potatoes, canna, Passion vine, and in the small orange pot is a little pecan tree.  This little tree grew from a pecan that fell from the giant pecan tree in my backyard.  It's because of that big tree that I had to put my vegetable gardens in the front yard. I have all of these little trees still in pots because I hope to take them to my farmstead, once I get it.

Here are a few more little plants I had to repot.  The two brown pots at the bottom of the photo and  the two larger orange pots have avocado trees, and the white pot with the cat faces has another Mexican Olive tree.  The orange pot in the white tray at the top of the photo has Goldenrod.  I grow this for the flowers - they make wonderful 'pine trees' for model railroaders!

And, lastly, the two green flowering plants on either side of the caladiums are for attracting pollinators, I don't remember the names... The blue pot and the two pots to the right of it have more potatoes.  The two small pots with bright green leaves at the bottom of the photo are sweet potatoes. I'll put into the ground later.  And the larger orange pot at the top right corner of the photo has an avocado tree (about 24 inches tall).

That's it for now. Until next time, never give up, never surrender, and may all your dreams come true.

Four Beds DONE!

The three veggie beds in the front yard are DONE! 

The last bed completed was the new tomato bed and it went together quicker than I thought it would.  I bought 6 -inch wide cedar fence planks to go inside the border blocks because the blocks were too short for all the soil and mulch I needed to put in the bed.  It looks so good that I'm going to retrofit the other two front yard beds with cedar planks.  And I still need to get five more tomato cages, I have seven now.  Next week.

A friend mentioned to me last week that a lady in his neighborhood was setting up a vegetable garden in her front yard a few weeks ago when Code Compliance came by and told her she couldn't do that.  She had already tilled up the soil and was putting the fence around it.  Considering all the time I've spent on my gardens, and the money, I'd hate for this to happen to me.  So I looked at the City Code to see what it says about this, but I couldn't find anything specific.  I did find an article from June 2012 in the Express News that said there was no restriction on where the beds were, as long as the crops didn't obstruct the view for drivers.  I've printed and put the article in my garden notebook so I don't lose it, plus I've bookmarked it to my Favorites so I can find it again.

My next projects are the narrow beds along the front of the house.  Currently I have lots of large, different style/color pots with various plants, bushes, and vines growing in them.  I need to organize this area and make it look as nice as the veggie beds.  It'll be a couple weeks before I can begin this project, until then, never give up, never surrender, and may all your dreams come true.

Three Down, One To Go

 

It took longer to get this bed done than I expected.  I thought I had gotten all the Bermuda grass and roots out, but I spent most of Monday pulling out more, digging them up one shovel full at a time.  The trellis on the right has the cucumbers, the one on the left has the Loofah gourds.  There are also bell peppers, jalapeños, okra, and dill.  It was really windy this morning so I had to wait until this evening to plant them. 

 

I'm betting on the adage "third time's a charm" for this bed to finally get planted with something!  There are twelve tomato plants just begging to go here.  I already have seven tomato cages so I only need to get five more. 

I should have this one done by Friday.  Until then, never give up, never surrender, and may all your dreams come true.