It’s official. All 8 of our backyard garden boxes have been planted. 🙂 We’ve still got plenty of seeds left to plant, {cucumbers, beans and pumpkins to mind} but pretty soon we’ll be done planting for the summer season.
Our pallet garden is full of lettuce and strawberries and it shouldn’t be to much longer before we are harvesting lettuce {we usually get our first strawberries around the end of June}.
We’ve got winter and spring carrots in the first garden box and broccoli and peas planted in the box behind them. 
Red onions and French breakfast radishes up front with red, white and blue potatoes growing in the back.
We also have white onions, and Brussel sprouts and tomatoes planted and it won’t be too long before the Brussel sprouts are taller than the onions.
Beets and one lone Swiss chard plant that survived the deep freeze this winter are up front with kale and celery in the garden bed behind them. 
And last but not least, cabbage, leeks and a big ole’ Â bed of garlic round out the garden boxes.
The greenhouse garden is coming along nicely as well. We have a bed of cabbage growing in the raised garden bed alongside the greenhouse and lots of fresh herbs too.
Ahh the weeds. For the last 2 years we’ve grown pumpkins in this area but this year we decided to leave it empty to give the soil a rest. Over the past few weeks the weeds have been popping up like gangbusters so I need to get our there and pull them all up before it becomes a huge mess.
Finally, a picture of our raspberry jungle. 🙂 I noticed a few raspberry flowers are ready beginning to form on a couple of the canes and I’m keeping my fingers crossed for a bumper crop this year.
How is YOUR garden doing lately?
Have you planted all your seeds yet?
Mavis wants to know.
This years garden is being sponsored by the folks at Botanical Interests Seed Company. You can check out their website HERE, order their new 2014 Garden Seed Catalog HERE.
PattyB says
Mavis, why not a cover crop? It will kill the weeds and improve your soil.
Wynne says
That’s what I was going to say. I haven’t tried it yet but I have buckwheat seeds waiting (the Weekend Homesteader wrote they are super-easy to remove after they do their overwintering job–maybe it’s the same all year?).
Cheryl says
So what is going on with that tree to the far right in the second to last photo? It looks like a flock of mean woodpeckers moved in and set up a tree felling contest.
Mavis Butterfield says
Yep. We have woodpeckers in our backyard. 🙂
The Couch Potato says
You should try to save the seed from that Swiss Chard, since it was more cold hardy than the others
Emily says
So… May 10 (yesterday) was our first frost free date (our guaranteed, get-the-plants-in-the-ground date). Today, May 11, it’s snowing. 5-10 inches. :o( Needless to say, I haven’t planted anything. Just venting.
Emily says
When you grow your strawberries and lettuce together, are both in there all season or do you have to harvest the lettuce to give the strawberries room to mature. I am planning to grow lettuce in window boxes this year and thought trailing strawberry plants would make a nice addition.
Janet W. says
Use a hoe to clean up those weeds. Do it twice a week and it saves a lot of time pulling by hand and is much easier.
Brandie says
Your garden is beautiful!
Kellie J says
Looking great, Mavis! That’s so strange, I have one lone overwintered Swiss chard too. I live south of you; Olympia. I am soooo late getting my starts done. But I have loads of tomato starts I need to acclimate to the greenhouse and loads of brassica starts waiting patiently for me to plant. The beds need just a little more work.
lindaharper says
Instead of weeding that area all summer to give the ground a rest, how about planting some rye, buckwheat, clover, etc for a green manure to improve the soil and smother out weeds at the same time!? You can chop and drop it back into the soil next spring and supercharge the nutrients!