Today's Garden Update

[SweetMissDaisy]

Hi All! Hope you're enjoying the weekend! We've got real high humidity and warm temps today, so it's in and out, in and out, in and out, trying to keep from overheating.

I snapped some photos of the garden this afternoon, and thought I'd share a few!

You can find more on my blog post about today, here:
http://sweetmissdaisy.typepad.com/sassy_sweet_notes/2011/05/garden-update.html

This is the trellis I built yesterday for my double-yield cucumbers. It wasn't the trellis design I had in mind for this bed, but I think it will work out just fine.

The tomato beds are growing nicely... getting a little crowded in there already! Why oh WHY can't I bring myself to plant them farther apart in the spring!? ... I need more prepared soil, that's for sure!! MORE garden space is NEEDED!!

This is my sorry looking strawberry bed. Sure hope they make it through this year and give us some berries next summer! If anyone has some suggestions on how to improve this bed, or pamper it, let me know... I've never grown strawberries before.

 

[Cats Critters and Garden]

The tomato beds are growing nicely... getting a little crowded in there already! Why oh WHY can't I bring myself to plant them farther apart in the spring!? ... I need more prepared soil, that's for sure!! MORE garden space is NEEDED!!

Isn't there always a need for more garden space? and your garden looks very nice!

 

[digitS']

Very nice trellis - on everything - Daisy!

Your garden is so green. What, from 1 rainstorm . . ?

Here in your old home stomping grounds, it looks like we won't have quite a 60F day - very cool and cloudy. But, it is pleasant and, with all the trees leafing out, just about as green as your garden!

Steve

 

[SweetMissDaisy]

Oops! I meant to include this image, too!


This is the over-all view of the garden, as of this afternoon.
Left to right in the photo:
- Zinnia, sunflower and gourds along the chicken yard fence
- Two 4x8 beds of tomatoes in front of the chicken house
- Then there are the herbs, the sorry strawberry bed, peppers, and an onion bed.
- Behind those beds at the side of the chicken house are two 4x8 beds of cuc's (on the trellises), followed by a currently empty 4x8 bed (had peas).
- The row of four 4x8 beds on the right are zuc's (black & yellow), beans (bush and pole), 8-ball zucs & patty pan, and a "misc" bed at the far back.
- I have a few ocra planted to the right of these beds, but they're out of the photo frame.

 

[Collector]

Daisy, Your gardens are looking great, I really like the cucumber treliss. It will be awhile yet before things start looking nice and green like yours up here in Eastern Wa.

 

[SweetMissDaisy]

You know, I was just up in Newport last weekend visiting my parents. It was chilly! 70 one day, 42 the next...and that was the HIGH! But I loved it .... loved every last bit of it!

 

[4grandbabies]

Loved thoise pics, SweetMissDaisy! I like those trellises, but actually I loved everything. This year, I think your strawberries will just set on runners and make more plants, bet you have plenty of berries next year.

 

[journey11]

That is a really neat cuke trellis. Maybe try growing your tomatoes in 5-gal buckets next year (or pretty planters if you like). Then you can move them wherever you need to. I have trouble wanting to plant a zillion tomatoes and crowding them too. This year I didn't guesstimate--I got out the yardstick and spaced my rows 5' apart with each tomato in the row 3' apart. Surely that'll be enough!

 

[beavis]

Outstanding!

 

[thistlebloom]

I like your cuke trellis too! Your garden is luscious!