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.