Planting The Summer Garden

I decided to rip out my almost-ready cabbage and cauliflower, and my side-shooting broccoli in order to get my summer garden planted. It was a tough decicion but I couldn't bare the thought of a summer without fresh tomatoes and peppers! The side shoots on the broccoli were not producing as much as usual... so that helped my decicion. (tomatoes and peppers in on March 4th, Squash seeds in on March 15th)

This cabbage was an experiment, I planated it by seed, while I usually do transplants for all broccoli/cabbage & califlower. I think it would have made a lovely head of cabbage if only I could have left it in the garden a little longer.

This was broccoli from seed. As predicted... the plant didn't get large enough before it headed. I guess I will stick to transplants for broccoli.

The soil I have been using is a self-made mix (Mel's mix recipe) of 1/3 vermiculite, 1/3 compost and 1/3 peet moss. I needed to add some more soil this year, so I decided to go the easy route... I bought a couple bags of the pre-made Mel's Mix from Home Depot. Good stuff!

Tomaotes: 2 Pearson , 1 Better Boy, 2 Early Girl, 1 Sweet 100, and 1 Solar Fire. Peppers: 1 jalepeno, 1 golden bell, and 1 red bell.

Lettuce Garden

My lettuce is still going strong, but again I need some space! I realized that I had planted way more lettuce than our family can consume... so I harvested half of it, then prepared the soil for planting. I planted black beauty zucchini, Early Profilific Straightneck, and some Scallop squash.

My peas have made a come-back! They are have been blossoming, yielding pods, and looking healthy again! Yay!

The Girl Garden

My kids, on their own accord, made a plan for a garden, prepared the soil, planted the seeds and made these cute little signs! What cute little gardeners!

I had to put some of the herbs in pots. I will probably transplant them when more space is available.

I still would like to get some corn, beans and green onions and chives in the ground. They will fit nicely in box 3 when the kale and spinach can't handle the heat. I know that corn can be planted late but I'm not sure about the beans!