Hello Friday!
The weather forecast here in Mid-Coast Maine is looking pretty awesome for the next 10 days… Temps in the mid 70’s {and only 1 day forecasted for 80!} so that means the garden will be gaining momentum and growing like it should.
Right now my favorite area in the garden is this little patch of spinach and flowers. Once the spinach has all been harvested the cabbage will have more room to grow, but I think I’ll still have enough room to squeeze in an extra row of basil just in front of the hydrangeas once the spinach is gone.
Fresh basil. You can never have enough in my book.
These are the peppers I started from seed! Don’t they look great?
I think I may have set out the tomatoes I started from seed about a week too early, but they’re hanging in there. I think they’ll be fine but only time will tell.
Our sugar snap peas are just about a day away from starting to cling to their trellis.
And all is well in the land of pole beans too. 🙂
This year, since I’m working with nice long rows, I planted a row each of basil, parsley, cilantro, oregano and thyme. I planted the seeds when Mrs. HB was here and this is a picture of the basil coming up. I’ll give it a about another week and then I’ll go in a thin it out.
I planted my zucchini seeds at the same time I planted the basil and they are just now popping through the soil. When plants are at this stage it always makes me a little nervous because it always seems like the birds wander into the garden about this time and pull up my seedlings. But so far so good.
If I can just make it another week without them wandering into the garden… we should be safe.
A shot of the kitchen garden from the porch. Neat and tidy and weed free. I hope it lasts. Ha. 🙂
I planted packets of sugar pie pumpkins and butternut squash along the white picket fence so hopefully by the end of summer, all the pickets will be covered in vines and they’ll be squash dangling from the fence. It’s kind of a crazy idea, but you know, I think it might just look kind of cool. We’ll see.
So how’s YOUR garden doing these days? Are you harvesting anything yet? Do tell! We want to know.
Have a wonderful weekend,
~Mavis
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Christie says
Looks beautiful! I have kale and garlic scapes so far. My peas just started to flower so it shouldn’t be long now. Tomatoes, peppers, squash and beans are all doing well. I can’t wait to have fresh veggies all summer long!
Sarah says
We are 5a where we live and it has been a cold spring. Our plants similar sizes. Good garden so far.
Margo says
I’ve had to put tule netting over anything small in the garden until the plants were big enough to be bird pull resistant. Trying to grow melons vertically on trellises to keep the possums and skunks away from them, and most of my garden is in square foot raised beds. (Up off the ground about 18inches). All my veggies are in, except my eggplant, which will be transplanted in a week or two.
loriann says
Here in the southwest, its hard to garden. I’m taking the year off while planning whether to move my garden to a shadier area with only half day direct sun,ight. I’ve spent too many summers putting up more and more shade covers.
About the birds who eat your seedlings, my husband made me about 10 chicken wire square cages that I put over my seedlings until they are established. ive had birds come in and eat an entire row of 4 inch tall lettuce in a night!
Kristina says
Lots of tomatoes on, getting pale and ready to turn. Zucchini producing. Melons have blooms. My basil is strangely small, though. Mid-90s here in central CA, after a few days of 100 degree weather feels like a reprieve. haha.
Hawaii Planner says
We’ve had our garden in for a few months now (bay area, very moderate temps) & we have a lot coming up: cilantro, parsley, all kinds of basil, oregano, mint, rosemary, tomatoes, peppers, radishes, kale, spinach, one million zucchinis. Our blueberry bushes look good, but aren’t quite ripe yet. We have watermelon, cantaloupe & cucumbers growing well, but not quite ready to harvest.
Carole says
Picking tomatoes and the lettuce is finished. Everything else is fine except we need to stop with the rain. Very strange here in south TX, so much rain. My okra drowned, planting more later. We just need sun and heat now and dry out. The only thing doing really well is grass and weeds!!
Alli Aplet says
It is amazing how different places can be. Here in northern Ca. we have had hardly any rainfall and we are all dried up!
Mary says
I am in Willamette Valley of Oregon and zone 8. I have finished picking kale, chard and leeks. Still picking wintered over lettuce and spring lettuce. I am on my third planting of radishes. My peas are 3 feet and flowering. Squash, tomatoes, peppers are getting tall. I am excited for a fresh tomato!
Pj Truman says
We have only harvest asparagus so far. Three times and ready for fourth harvest. I love the gift that keeps on giving!
Cindi says
What a beautiful, beautiful garden! We’re about in the same rate of growth as you are. Our tomatoes are starting to flower. It’s all good.
Deborah R says
Southern Illinois, zone 6b. Strawberry time, have put up 23 half pint of jam and think we’ll just eat the rest fresh. Had collard greens tonight with dinner and the kale is ready. My raised bed look very much like what you did this year and my paths are standing in water right now. Pepper and tomatoes have been in for week, but are just now starting to take off. Corn, zucchini, winter squash, cantaloupe and green beans are well established and looking good. Onions are past harvesting for green and will be left to bulb. Cabbage and chard are recovering from early critter munching, maybe bunnies, but may not do much before it gets too hot for them. Radishes are done and carrots are close to harvest. Some volunteer potatoes, from compost pile, might be close to sneaking a few from underneath. Last year’s parsley is going to seed, but leaving it for the butterflies. Sage, chives, thyme, rosemary, oregano, all gangbusters. Lettuce has done well, but look for it to bolt with warmer temps this week.
Julie P says
We are very behind in Norfolk U.K. frosts all of April and in fact we had a frost 11 days ago. So much rain in May but, and I say cautiously, it all seems to be warming up. Planted everything out now just keeping fingers crossed. Harvesting spinach. Everything else about a month behind apart from the grass and weeds as someone else said your patch looks really good!