Things are growing!

This is the harvest for today. We have spinach (harvest weekly, squash (already frozen 4 casseroles),a few green beans (first harvest), and cucumbers (first harvest).

tunnel view

Although the weather has been really different and weird, but still are having a lot of growth on our plants and we have started to get some small harvest.

These were sautéed to go with dinner. I honestly think that the wind blew off the tails before they could actually reach any size!

I am excited that a couple of sunflowers are keeping up with the cosmos!

All the Amish paste tomatoes are showing above the bed. We have pruned off the bottom leaves but plan to just let them grow at this point.

German Johnson tomatoes (slicing)

This bed will be the most work in the next couple of weeks. Broccli does not like heat and as you can see is starting to wilt. I will also need to pull out the snap peas and plant some green beans in their place.

The zucchini bed with sone lots of blooms this week!

The squash are huge and they taste wonderful!

I am concerned about this bed as it is just not doing as well as the one on the opposite side. I have been using Epsom salt on the peppers to try and help.

My prettiest bed EVER! It is so full and makes me happy!

The tunnel is starting to fill in!

Okra, dill , marigold . it also is staring to expand!

The banana peppers that I purchased are looking great, only one of these cantaloupe plants germinated in the front bed.

Excited that the Waxman peppers are looking much more alive!

Officially 6 watermelon plants I want to see this area full! You can also see a couple of volunteer tomato plants.

Watching for the potato plants to get taller than the sign!

The most exciting news is that we are harvesting spinach and snap peas! I also finished harvesting the radishes so that we can purchase some banana peppers to plant in the next week or so. Things are growing!

We are filled the potato’s containers to the brink so we will just let them grow from this point on!

These are the German Johnson tomato’s that are for slicing. You can see some very small cantaloupe staring in front of this bed.

This bed is Amish paste tomatoes; they are also doing well but this bed is a bit deeper so they should be visible in the next week. The front of this bed is cosmos with sunflowers in the back.

This bed is in front of the house. You can see all the snap peas along the back. The broccoli in the second picture does not have head developing however we have cooler (70) temps in the next week so I am hopefully to get some broccoli if not the chickens can enjoy. The every end is a gum drop tomato. It is small but has a long time to develop.

The zucchini smells like squash which is exciting and the garlic appears to be thriving.

3 HUGE squash plants that are taking up a whole bed!  We decided to plant mint under this bed in two containers in an attempt to keep the squash bugs away!  I have planted 2 additional seeds in this bed but no germination yet.

The marigold is huge!  I transplanted the dill on the left yesterday as well. I think that we have 4 orka plants in still alive out of the 11 that we planted. I am truely not upset but thankful for the poor survival rate of these.

Asparagus plants that are only a year old, one onion plant and 4 wax man pepper plants have survived.

Green beans and pepper plants in this bed are doing well.

4 of the loofa plants have taken off!

Another view of the green beans!

Despite the yellowing these cucumber plants do have blooms.

These plants look the worst, I am hoping to add some Epsom salt to help them later in the week.

Watermelon plants and 3 volunteer tomato plants that we have provided cages to.

Blueberries

Apples! If we pick more than  5 this will be our largest harvest!

Pears that we did not expect due to the loss of one of our trees this winter and the significant pruning that we did on it this year!