Nancy wanted to know what we have in our garden this year besides bumper crops of snap peas and lettuce.
Let's see...
*We're trying corn for the first time, and have staggered two plantings so we'll have a lot of corn, for a long time.
*Tomatoes (cherry and regular)--this is the first time we've grown them exclusively from seed and didn't cheat with seedlings
*Green peppers--these are not looking very good, but then again peppers haven't ever really worked well for us
*Winter squash
*Cucumbers--we had to get some seedlings as our seeds were wiped out
*Okra--this is supposed to be easy to grow, but our plants aren't looking great
*Pole beans
*NO Zucchini!!!
*lots of herbs, including a bunch of basil to dry and to freeze in pesto
It looks like some of the blueberries we planted will yield a little bit of fruit this year and maybe some blackberries or raspberries, but I think that will be about it for our fruit until things mature for at least another year or two (we planted a bunch of different fruit trees last fall).
Later on in the summer we'll be planting pumpkins, fennel, and then starting in on our cool season crops (cabbage, broccoli, kale, collards, brussel sprouts, spinach, arugala etc.). We missed planting potatoes and onions but next year we'll get those in the ground in the spring.
Austin gave me a pressure canner for Christmas, so it will be interesting to try my hand at preserving things later in the season. I'm especially hoping for a bumper crop of tomatoes!
