Garden Update

I was finally able to get a few shots of the updated growth in my garden beds. The plants themselves are not only growing but the weeds are also, unfortunately. The onion plants and lettuce are doing very well and I think the cool temps that we have been having have really given them some energy. The cabbage seems to be growing pretty well, but seem to have some signs of pests. I haven't actually seen the critters, but the leaves do have some holes in them. I've never grown cabbage before, so I hope it's nothing to worry about. The small bed that I have some strawberries in seems to be doing rather well. I have always had a problem getting the strawberries to survive the hot summer, but the plants that I have now are about a year old so these made it through the heat last year. I'm trying to do a little experiment this year. I planted some tomato plants among the strawberries. My hope is that by the time the tomatoes have grown full size, the strawberries will have finish producing. Then the tomato plants will shade the strawberries through the summer......in theory. I did realize, however that when I was planting the tomato plants, I realized that my soil in this particular bed is really not good at all. When I created the bed, I really didn't know much about soil preparation and there is a lot of clay and very black dirt. I'm surprised anything has grown in there at all. Anyway, we will see what happens. Enjoy the pictures.

It's hard to see the good stuff for all the weeds, but I hope to clean this up sometime this week.


The lettuce has not started making heads yet, but they look pretty healthy


This is the bed of strawberries and tomatoes. You can barely make out the cages for the tomato plants. You may see some rebar sticking up. I have to use this to keep my cages from blowing away. We have a lot of wind here at our house and last year I really had a problem with my cages blowing over and harming the plants. I hope this fixes it this year.


Here are a few berries poking there heads out looking for sunshine. Yummy!


This is the petunias that made it through the winter. They are going crazy! These are almost 1 year old.