Garden Update-6/10/13

I am feeling a little bad, the garden plot is getting neglected with all this new home owner stuff going on. Yesterday we were finally able to make a brief pit stop at the garden on the way home from Wal-Mart, I say we because with Charlie in tow it is nearly impossible to get any gardening done since if I set him on the ground he will literally be eating dirt and we have been getting so much rain that he would be a muddy mess (although I am sure he would enjoy it)

Our tomatoes are HUGE, but not a red one in site.. lots of little green guys though. I pulled the remainder of the radishes, I don't think I will grow those anymore, they get big, take up space and I don't even like eating them! They grow so fast that they make me feel like I actually have a green thumb. The onions are about ready to be pulled and the lettuce and spinach's days are numbered.. it is mid-June after all. The peppers are small, not sure why but I just can't grow peppers.. last year I didn't get a single bell pepper, hoping to get some this year!  And that brings us to the green beans, they just aren't doing well.. first we had bugs so I used an organic spray and they still seem to just be hanging in..they have what appear to be blooms but I don't see any beans!  The bed next to ours has tons of beans! What am I doing wrong??





In other happenings Eric built me a raised bed this weekend for me to plant asparagus in, he is going to build another one next weekend for strawberries. I got these plants 75% off at Lowes so I am really hoping they grow!  The beds cost about $15 each and are 6'x2'x17" high.  This was the cheapest way i could figure out to build raised garden beds and I am overall pretty happy with them. Right now they are sitting empty because we need to get dirt hauled in to fill them.

Here is my updated garden harvest, my goal is 200lbs of produce from my gardens in 2013.

What has been harvested
April ?? : 8lb of carrots ( these were a surprise, we planted them in the fall after Charlie was born and never checked on them!! They were huge)
May 4: 8 oz of radishes
May 8: 7oz of radishes & 7oz of lettuce
May 19: 7oz radishes & 1lb lettuce
June 9: 8oz banana peppers
Total: 11lb 5oz
To Go: 188 lbs 11 oz... hope I can make it!

I still need to plant cucumbers and squash and maybe more beans here at the house.. we haven't harvested any heavy produce yet and I am sure the bulk of the weight will come from tomatoes and squash if I can ever get them in the ground.