Lucy and I snapped a few pictures of the raised garden beds this morning and I thought I would show you what’s growing in them. 17 heads of cabbage were planted and so far 2 of them are bolting.
I always think it’s weird when you plant something in the same soil and the conditions are the same but one or two of plants decide to do their own thing. It’s kind of weird if you ask me. I mean I get how the whole bolting thing works, but still. I think it’s odd.
This fat head of cabbage looks perfect though.
Remember the two garden beds where I couldn’t get anything to grow? Well knock on wood because after several attempts, we have green beans and beets coming up in one of the beds.
And potatoes and corn in the other. I don’t know if I’ll actually get any corn to harvest since I only planted a few seeds, but the stalks will still look cool on the porch this fall when it comes time to decorate.
A sea of tomato plants.
Artichokes and garlic. I’ve stopped watering my garlic because the leaves are starting to die back a bit. We typically harvest garlic around the end of June or early July. The garlic plants are looking pretty good considering they got a bit of a late start.
The artichoke plants were started from seed in January and for their first year, I think they look great. This was the first time I had ever started artichokes from seed and for being such a large plant, I’m amazed at how well they are doing.
Squash. Finally! I planted some butternut squash seeds up by the pea teepees early last week and they are just now starting to pop through the soil. I LOVE winter squash and I planted a bunch of seeds so we’ll see what happens.
And last but not least, the potato patch. The HH has been laying grass clippings in the potato beds each time he mows. So far so good. I haven’t noticed any additional slugs. Let’s hope it stays that way.
Did you plant potato plants this year? Are you using any type of mulch?
Mavis wants to know.
Bren says
Mavis, just hoping you could give us an update soon on what you have going inside under grow lights currently
and keep us posted on when you start your fall gardening, when you start the seeds indoors so its easy for us
to know when to start the seeds too.
Wynne says
I’d like to know this too, even though I’m on the other coast. I had great luck with winter gardening the past two years and need to branch out beyond chard and arugula … but I’m a newbie to brassicas and most roots.
Mavis says
You bet! I will post about it once I get started on them. 🙂
Debby Timson says
I planted potatoes the past 2 seasons with poor results. They got the blight as well as my tomatoes. I had 6 – 20′ rows of potatoes and appx 16 tomato plants. The first year I did harvest about 15 lbs of potatoes and had tomatoes ripening as the plant had no leaves left. Last year the tomatoes were off to a good start, but the potatoes got the blight early. This year I have planted a potato tower and that is it for potatoes. I expect the blight will hit but I will water from under the plant and attempt to add soil as the potato plant grows. With the tomatoes, I will also water with a soaker hose under the mulch and am concidering to cover the tomato area to protect from rain. My research has indicated that watering with sprinklers and rain contribute to blight. I concidered ‘not’ planting potatoes or tomatoes because the soil is probably contaminated but decided to experiment and restrict rain/top watering to see what difference it makes. Last year I used grass clippings to mulch with. Just didn’t have enough because of drought
Kristina says
I’m just curious about those artichoke plants. Are they a dwarf variety or are you going to transplant them later? Or do they not get too big up where you are? They are grown commercially here where I live in central CA, and the ones we have in our garden (globe variety) are a good 4-5′ high and just as big across. I would love to find a dwarf variety.
Marie says
YES! My HH has “sprinkled” our potato beds witn grass clippings! Clippings can form a type of “sheeting” on top of soil or in the compost pile if dumped en masse , yet loosely sprinkled on top of the potatoes gives us hope. We have tried just about everything else available to build up the potato “toppings” so let’s hope this experiment proves fruitful.
Hang on garden chemists, let’s find a use for everything!
The Prudent Homemaker says
I was coming to say what Christina did. You’re going to want to transplant those artichoke plants somewhere, because they will be 4″ wide each. I grow artichokes as well.
Sakura says
mavis, when did you plant your garlic? I didn’t get any garlic in but I’m not sure if I’m supposed to plant in fall and let it over winter or spring. Thanks.
Brenda says
You can plant garlic in the fall in October she planted in the fall.
jubob says
we don’t mulch our potatoes, my farmerbob runs the rottotillerdown the rows and hills the dirt up around the plants. we have had good luck with this. we have 10 100 foot rows of red Pontiacs. they have pinkish/purple blooms right now and look almost like a flower garden.wonderful.