A Growing Garden

So it's been I guess a little over a month since I posted about the garden. It's really ramping up now and soon will be producing fruits and vegetables.

The whole garden

Strawberries (back), Okra (left), Peppers (right). My new garden beds always seem to straggle behind, the dirt just isn't the best until the worms get in there and process it. Plants will probably do better next year, but we'll see how it goes anyway.

Cantaloupe, Sunflowers, and watermelon. All seem a bit stunted :-/ like the other new bed.

Corn. Growing and thriving. We must have had some pretty heavy wind while we were gone, much of the corn was blown over and I had to  mound up the dirt and re stabilize the plants. I wonder if I'm not planting them deep enough. They seem to do really well otherwise.

Lima beans (front), green beans (back). Green beans are full of flowers. One of the plants snapped in the wind and yet is still flowering and surviving along. Limas seem lanky and struggling, but maybe they are just that way, we'll see how they do in a few more weeks.

Cucumbers (left), and Tomatoes(right). Lots of male and female flowers on the cucumbers already. Tomatoes have a couple green ones already set. Those Jetsetters sure are early! I'm trying a different pruning method this year on the tomatoes to keep the growth in check and perhaps have larger but abundant tomatoes this year. I'll be glad if I can keep the cukes on their side of the trellis, they always end up all wrapped in the tomatoes.

Zucchini (front), eggplant (left), herbs (right). Zuchinni flowers just opened today, they produce fast and we'll probably be eating them by the weekend. Herbs have exploded, already made an awesome egg salad with the dill. I'm dying to make pesto, there's enough basil now. Eggplants are slow but steady, they'll get there.

Fig tree really flourished out with lots of leaves. I wonder if it drops the few fruits it had, I can't find them anymore.

Asparagus seems to be pretty happy here.

Blackberries are coming back strong, starting to flower too!

Pretty sure my orange tree is dying, all the little fruits it had all fell off, the leaves are yellow and curling. I think it's a root problem from too much rain. Maybe fungus or rot. Short of digging the thing up, I don't know what else I can do to help it bounce back :-/

Rosemary always so happy, Stevia happy and strong, gonna try extract this year. Onions are super happy and I think the asparagus like it in this spot too.

Our hiding little friend. The kids love spotting these all over the yard. Lowla too, they drive her mad that she can't ever catch them.

Can't wait to start eating fresh veggies from the garden. Soon soon but not soon enough.