The garden is starting to take off. Recently had some nice warm sunny weather and now we have rain for a couple of days before more sun and warmth.
The vineyard. Needs shoot thinning and some weed control around the bases. We have 200 plants.
My garden patch which is on the south side of the house. My small 8 x 10 ft greenhouse and my glorious stand of garlic. A couple of zucchini plants behind the compost bins.
My herb garden is tucked away against the west side of the house. That enormous plant is lovage. I harvested most of the sorrel yesterday and still pondering what the heck to do with it.
The garlic and onion patch with the rest of the potatoes at the end.
I do square foot gardening and I have TEN squares.....way too many for just the two of us so I feed the neighbours. The wire frames are for my peas to climb up.
This is my shade box where I plant my greens. Already harvested a square of arugula which is one foot by one foot...the boxes are 4 feet x 4 feet. I have regular spinach and New Zealand spinach which gives my leaves all year long. Also some mixed greens and bok choy.
This box has mainly beets which get bugs in the leaves every year. The local plant guys said put out some sticky paper to catch them before they burrow into the leaves. We'll see. So far I caught a little finch...had a little square stuck on it's back. Managed to get if off and then I put up the netting to keep the birds out. There are four empty squares...not sure what to put in there.
A really good year for mint. Some green onions, parsley from last year, Vietnamese cilantro, more parsley and cucumbers which will grow up the lattice. It's a busy square.
These are my peppers and carrots.
Fava beans....hopefully we can keep the mildew off them this year. Radish and more carrots.
Peas and tomatoes. Not growing as many tomato plants this year...only about 12...still have tons of tomatoes in the freezer from last year.
The potato patch. We'll see how they do here. It's quite hot being against the house so we'll have to water them twice a day.
And finally the strawberry patch. The wire is to keep the quails off.
That's it.
