Garden

So...those of you that follow this blog I am sure are shocked, I am finally posting a garden update. Of course I am behind like always but here it is. This should score me some points still!!!

I planted a little differently this year. Instead of straight rows across the garden, I planted in sections.

There are 3 main sections with sub-sections for specific plants within them.

Tomatoes
Peas (lattice for them to grow up - 2 rows that are not up yet to prolong the season)
Cucumbers (Is that a cattle fence - YUP it is! Will show details farther down)

Lettuce (two additional rows not up yet)
3 rows onions (white, yellow, red)
Spinach (two rows not up yet)
3 rows onions (white, yellow, red)
Beans (two additional rows not up yet)

Dill
Broccoli
Kohlrabi
Peppers (Hot Tabasco, Giant Jalapeno, Habanero, Jalapeno, Bell)

Looking into garden from tomato corner

Looking into garden from cucumber corner

Looking into garden from dill corner

Looking into garden from pepper corner

The Cucumber Cage...

Last year Chris helped me a LOT in the garden since I was not living in IA full time yet. And anyone that has had a garden knows that picking cucumbers is not fun. Then throw a horrible year for mosquitoes on top of it and it becomes even less fun. Well I am hoping the cucumber cage makes the picking part easier. On one of the jobs Chris did last year he could see their garden out back and they had taken a cattle fence, cut it a little shorter and welded it in a circle, stuck it in the garden and planted the cucumbers around the outside. The cucumbers grew up the fence making picking easier.

I will keep you posted but so far it seems to be working. They are growing right up the fence, with a little guidance from me every night!

We have had 2 really hot days and this plant is huge now.