How Does Your Garden Grow? July 1st

July 1st: We have been short on rain lately, but the garden is coming along alright.  Thing have been busy so I haven't gotten all of what I had hoped planted, but I have gotten the most important things in.

I realize that it is a little hard to read the words on my drawing.  Here's what's in each quadrant.

Quadrant 1: Peas, cucumber, dill, green beans, yellow wax beans, cauliflower, broccoli, cantaloupe,

Quadrant 2: Sweet peppers, green bell peppers, banana peppers, zucchini, summer squash, acorn squash, carrots, onions, lettuce, spinach, slicing and cherry tomatoes, Roma tomatoes, San Marzano tomatoes, onions and carrots

Quadrant 3: Corn with beans

Quadrant 4: Potatoes, sweet potatoes, beans, watermelon.

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BUMMER!   Forgot to take a picture

July 1st: Enjoyed some more strawberries, kids' flowers coming up nicely - my flower plots planted

June 1st: Enjoyed a few strawberries from new transplants. Kids each planted a plot of flower seeds opposite strawberries.  Needint to plant my flower plots. Excited to see experimental direct seeded asparagus up and joining asparagus transplants started indoor from seed.

Quadrant 1

July 1st: harvesting and canning green beans and broccoli, enjoying the first of my late planted peas, cauliflower planted

June 1st: needing to plant herbs, lettuce behind peas, and eventually fall broccoli and cauliflower

Quadrant 2

July 1st - harvesting some carrots and lettuce, onions and carrots planted between tomato plants - needing to plant acorn squash and basil. needing to support tomatoes

June 1st: harvesting lettuce and baby carrots - needing to plant acorn squash and basil

Quadrant 3

July 1st - sunflowers and all corn planted - planted pumpkins and gourds elsewhere on farm

June 1st : needing to plant 3 rows of late sweet corn, sunflowers, pumpkins, and gourds

Quadrant 4

July 1st: all plants planted. volunteer watermelon came up were beans were going so didn't plant beans (will try fall beans in place of potatoes)

June 1st - needing to plant 3rd row of sweet potato slips, watermelon and beans

Blueberries and Vines

July1st: enjoyed many blueberries form smaller bushes, planted second row of blueberries - needing to move grapes over a few feet to the right, plant another planting of sunflowers, and mulch

June 1st: nibbled on some unripe, but nicely tart, blueberries - needing lots of work and planting yet!

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