April in the garden

Black seeded Simpson loose leaf lettuce



Detroit Red beets. Radishes will go in unplanted portion of the bed.



Kurley Kale 



Asparagus first cutting



Blue Lake green beans



This is season eight. Beds will need to be replaced. I am using the Anchor It system



I will only do the beds that require replacing

Late Spring 2014 to Winter crops

Asparagus just getting started

Green beans in the back ground boxes

Winter Garden

Broccoli heads just cut 

Adding mushroom compost

The planted beds had an application of mushroom compost added and incorporated into the soil at planting

Late frost; April 17, 18,

I used my furniture moving blankets to cover the beds with a section of landscape timber to act as a short tent pole.

Cucs, string beans, and squash; April 16th

Cucumbers popping through the soil

String beans before getting thinned

Squash

Spring Planting 2014

Sugar snap peas, loose leaf lettuce, radishes, spinach

Irish Potatoes

Asparagus Bed

Onions in February

The soil has been prepped for onions. The grid lines have been set for 9 seed boxes per square foot.

Half of the 4ft x 4ft bed has been planted.

The entire bed has been planted. There are 144 onion sets in the bed.

A New Year, 2012

My first posting this year is to put last year away. I did have a very good late / winter garden with great broccoli, cauliflower, beets, and cabbage. I spent most of the 2011 gardening year recovering from a total left knee replacement.

On January 30, 2012, I planted sugar snap peas.

Stay tuned for 2012.

Tommy

Spring Garden

I start this new garden year with lettuce.

Winter has arrived

Starting to clear out the plants that were frozen.

Clearing the beds of the frozen plants. Ace is keeping me company.

Several below freezing days in a row nailed the broccoli and cauliflower.

The beds have been cleaned. The 2010 garden has ended.

Fall Harvest

Broccoli heads ready for harvest just before the snow.

Cauliflower is later this year. Last year I had mature heads at Thanksgiving. This is not a fully matured head.

I am pulling all of the beets that remain from the second crop. The forecast temperatures for the next 6 days shows that the daily high will only be in the mid 30's. Today is December 4, 2010.

Harvest just before the snow. 14 heads of broccoli, 4 cabbage, a bucket of beets, and the 2nd head of cauliflower. I also cut 2 - 5 gallon buckets of curly kale and 2 of turnip greens.

Fall Harvest

Cabbages in the bed.

Broccoli ready to cut.

Fall Harvest

Cutting winter greens. The yield was 3 -5 gallon buckets of curly kale and 2 -5 gallon buckets of Seven Top turnip (less) greens.

Final job of the day was to pick all the tomatoes and peppers. Then take down the support frames, and pull up the old plant stalks.

Fall Harvest

Tomatoes, green-red-yellow peppers, beets, cabbage, and broccoli.

Fall Garden

October 17Th....broccoli, cauliflower, curly kale, and cabbage.

The broccoli heads are growing. It will be the middle of November before there will be cauliflower heads.

A nice bed of beets that are ready to pull.

The Roma tomatoes will cut loose and fall when they just start turning. They have been the best this year.

I am picking my tomatoes as they begin to turn.

This has not been a good tomato year. My big tomatoes have split and run all season. The Roma have done just find.