5/26/2013 Garden and Orchard

Well our 2013 garden is in, and he has been busy!  Here is a list of what's been planted:

6 hills cucumbers

2 40-ft rows okra

3 40-ft rows turnips

6 20-ft rows sweet corn

24 cauliflower

24 broccoli

24 Brussels sprouts

3 hills zucchini

4 hills summer squash

Pole beans on the high tunnel

36 heads cabbage

2 30-ft rows of Danvers half-long carrots

12 jalapeno peppers
6 habanero peppers

12 Marconi peppers

24 California wonder green peppers

72 assorted tomato plants

2 - 4' trellises of sugar snap peas

1-4'x4' bed of carrots

4'x8'bed of carrots

4'x4' bed of lettuce

4'x4' bed of radishes

4'x4'bed of spinach

Orchard:

100-ft row of thornless blackberries

Granny Smith apple

Gala apple

2 Montmorency (homestead) cherry trees

2 Georgia Belle peach trees

Bartlett pear tree

We also ordered some trees from the Arbor Day Foundation.  We are waiting on fall delivery of:

Oriental pear tree

Methley plum tree

2 Pecan trees

Our order came with 2 forsythia bushes, a red maple tree, and another redbud tree for free.

Here are some photos of the new raised beds he built also:

High tunnel for pole beans in back.

raised beds on south and east side of greenhouse

raised beds on south and west side of greenhouse

This does not count any of the "pretties" he has planted this year.  This is all just the food part of his gardens and plantings.

5/5/2013

Well, let's see.  We had a cold front move in along with some rainy weather.  Last Friday May 3rd), we even got some snow.  They were big flakes and really coming down, but it melted pretty much as soon as it hit anything.  I believe that's the latest we've ever had snow here.  We did get our shopping done Friday, though.  We picked up some mulch for the trees and blackberry starts, plus some potting soil to mix in with the raised beds.

We had a fairly quiet weekend, although he still worked on a lot of stuff.  He moved the rest of the dirt into the raised vegetable beds, unloaded feed, and we ended up moving all the flowering baskets inside due to the frost warning.  We were worried about the hummingbirds but looked it up.  Apparently, they're more hardy than we thought.  They must be, as we left the feeders out; and he counted 14 of them on the porch at the feeders that morning.

Today, he moved all the flowering baskets back out to the rail, plus he added his three topsy-turvy tomato planters, and all the cucumber baskets.  He planted broccoli and cauliflower in one of his raised vegetable beds today, plus replaced a few cabbage plants.  He also got both apple trees and both cherry trees planted.

I cleared a bunch of empty boxes out of the guest room and took them over to the mobile to help in finishing packing up that stuff over there.  I brought over a plastic 3-drawer cart and got it cleaned up good to put in the guest room.  Isaiah will be here Tuesday to spend his summer with us.  I moved some toys out of there and put them in the toy area out in the living room, and I went through and organized most of the video games again.  I believe the guest room is ready.

Hoping that the warm-up continues and nicer weather is on it's way to stay!