A couple of days of heavy rain followed by high temps and bright sunshine has the gardens popping.
I thought y’all might be interested to know what’s coming in here now, and what’s on the way.
Picking now:
Asparagus
Lettuce Mix (raised beds)
Tatsoi (raised beds)
Arugula
Siberian kale
Curly Scotch kale
Red Russian kale
Collards
Mustard greens
Radishes
Spinach
Bok choy
Almost ready to start picking:
Beets
Broccoli
Swiss Chard
Romaine lettuce
Chinese cabbage
Broccoli
Turnips
Planted and ready for harvest this summer:
Onions
Garlic
Potatoes
Growing now in the hoop house:
Green Beans
Tomatoes
Delicata Squash
Zucchini
October Beans
Next week we’ll begin planting our summer gardens. We’re anticipating planting:
Winter Squash (Butternut and Spaghetti)
Summer Squash
Zucchini
Okra
Tomatoes
October Beans
Green Beans
Black Beans
Bell peppers
Cucumbers
Sweet Corn
Eggplant (Asian and Italian)
Acorn Squash
Hubbard Squash
Cantaloupes
Watermelons
It’s a great, busy, delicious time of year.
Oh, my gosh. The photo’s gorgeous, and the list is making my mouth water. I’d love to be able to be one of your customers — it all looks so good.
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If you’re ever out our way you know where you can get a good meal or two. 🙂
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Wow look at those gardens! It is a wonderful sight.
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And it wasn’t so long ago that everything was dreary and brown. I love to see nature come alive this time of year.
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Wow -sounds wonderful Bill! ♡
Diana xo
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I admit that it sounds good to me too. 🙂 We’re off to a good start and hoping for a good summer too.
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Beautiful photo and everything sounds great I think my asparagus is about done but it sure has been good . My broccoli is a bit late but it won’t be long. For having a early spring I’m behind but it will be ok.
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Our broccoli is just starting to form heads now. The asparagus should be good for another month. We’ve already put up a lot for winter. Love this time of year.
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Bill, your garden looks amazing. Does the fence keep the deer out of the garden? It doesn’t look high enough for that. I’m glad to hear that the tunnel is doing good. Some time in the future I may look into having a small tunnel portable tunnel that can be erected over a couple raised beds but that’s a few years away after the rest of the garden is developed.
My thrust this year is to get started on developing the irrigation system that will eventually be automated. The experiment will be with the tomatoes and green peppers this year. Do you have irrigation inside your tunnel? If so, what kind is it? I’ve been researching many different kinds which can be useful for my application.
Have a great garden day on the White Flint Farm.
Nebraska Dave
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The electrified net fences work well, until they don’t. But seriously the deer respect them most of the time. Usually they don’t start jumping them until fall, when they’re getting hungrier. This year we’re using double fences, which helps. My understanding is that deer don’t have good depth perception so don’t like to jump something if there is an obstruction behind it.
We use drip tape to irrigate in the hoop house. One thing I’m appreciating is the huge reduction in weeds that comes from excluding rain and doing no overhead irrigation.
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Wow. Would love to spend a growing season with you learning the ropes.
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Would love to have you DM but you shouldn’t expect much. I don’t follow what the experts would call best practices. Works for us though. 🙂
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the proof is in the pudding…the pictures of your crops speak for themselves….
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Amazing! Still cold and wet here, no chance of working any soil for awhile 😦
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We were lucky to have good weather at planting time. It’s rained 7.5 inches here in the last week so the soil is way too wet to work now. Will probably delay our summer planting, which would normally begin on Monday.
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Wow, Bill! Plentiful and, no doubt, delicious too. Send some over here!
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Sorry, but you’re going to have to come here and get it. 🙂
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Gee whiz: first I have to come there and get the veggies, then Julie in New Zealand just invited me to come for quince jelly. What’s wrong with you people? Never heard of beaming up stuff to friends in galaxies far away?
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Impressive list of delectables!
My asparagus is popping up—much too early for here, but I’m guess the extra warmth from being in a double raised bed might be what’s doing it. Who am I to complain?? YUM!
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It’s always good to see those first spears of spring. 🙂
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“Great, busy, and delicious…” Sounds wonderful. I know the “busy” means a lot of work, though, Bill. –Curt
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Fortunately it’s work I enjoy doing. I truly love growing food.
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I know… It’s obvious, Bill. A wonderful passion. –Curt
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We only have things either growing inside the greenhouse or outside under fleece due to an unseasonal warm spell earlier that is now well and truly over. At least the mizuna has come through and radishes, but most certainly we will not be harvesting much soon. As for putting much more in the greenhouse, unlikely, because the chickens and the caravan are stiil in there due to the cold and the fact that there are avian flu restrictions which means poultry inside till July (no the chickens will not be in there that long, they will be going to where the sheep are when they move out, which will be when the grass grows! Phew!)
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One reason is posted the list is because I thought readers around the country/world would like to compare where we are vs. where they are. I see fellow gardeners in the south who are about to begin harvesting summer veggies, when we haven’t even planted ours yet. I think our climate is probably ideal for food production, but I’m biased.
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I like the idea of growing veg over the winter, even if it is in hoop houses, but I also like the idea of a winter off. Everything is slow this year, despite it’s early start as the nights are still so cold.
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