How Does Your Garden Grow??????

So here is my main bed.

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Here is a bed I was going to only use for cuttings (the willow cuttings are doing well, and the redbud tree seedlings are all popping up. Still waiting on the white and purple hibiscus seeds to sprout, and the arborvitae cuttings all roasted I think. But I figured I would plug in a tomato and a watermelon plant in it. Also in the background you can just see a cantalope plant in a smart pot. In the front is a lot of sweet potato plants in the white pots.

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My blueberry patch is looking sad with only one surviving my piss poor potting of them to keep them alive during the lockdown (too cold to plant though). And one tomato where one of the blueberry plants looks way dead. There is a third on the opposite side that is hard to see because it only has a couple small leaves. But it hasn't died yet so I am hopeful it might return next year.

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Spagetti Squash in the rack thing (thyme on top), and a zucchini standing along.

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Basil, a few cuccumbers, a squash that looks like it is going to get seriously powdery mildewy next to the deck, and a collard greens on the deck. I also have a apple tree to plant and a pot of the nasturtiums on the table back towards the door.

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This slice of dirt is the only full sun available on my lot. Just Black Beauty Zucchini, 2 heirloom mater varieties n 1 Burpee hybrid mater variety. Michigan.
 

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More peas. I also got a handful of snow peas. I forgot I planted them. I didn't plant very many and they kind of grew in with some of the shelling peas. I was wondering why they weren't swelling up. Then I ate one and remembered.

Pulled some beets planted early this spring. Second harvest this year thanks to planting last year and overwintering. This winter I'm going to have everything full of overwintering crops that I can harvest early in the spring.

My tomatoes are setting fruit. I have them packed pretty tight so I'm going to side dress them today.


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I’ve got crook neck squash running out of my ears , all we can eat plus freezing also. I cooked up the first batch of crowder peas yesterday and I have several cantaloupe about the size of softballs. I have taken about seventy blueberry cuttings so far , some under a humidity dome, some in nursery pots, some with cloning gel others with rooting powder, we’ll find out in a few months if any of it worked.
 
Yesterday and today were good above ground days. I planted hundreds of citrus seeds in trays again. I only got 3-4 sprouts per 50 seeds from the first round. And some of those got cashed due to grasshoppers and dry weather.

Also planted some purple bush beans, pole beans, sweet corn and flowers in the new raised bed, with the cayenne peppers and cherub tomatoes already there. And another round of acorn squash in trays. Meant to do more cukes today, but ran out of time.
 
Black Beauty Zucchini. Tomatoes include Mortgagelifter, & a couple heirlooms that I’m drawing a blank on right now.
 

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Black Beauty Zucchini. Tomatoes include Mortgagelifter, & a couple heirlooms that I’m drawing a blank on right now.

I've grown Mortgage Lifter. It's a great tomato that produces large yields of big tomatoes. This is the first year in quite a few I haven't grown any. This year I'm growing Siletz, Siberia, Delicious, and just plain Beefsteak from some cheap 20¢ pack of seeds.


A Mortgage Lifter from a couple years ago.

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I've grown Mortgage Lifter. It's a great tomato that produces large yields of big tomatoes. This is the first year in quite a few I haven't grown any. This year I'm growing Siletz, Siberia, Delicious, and just plain Beefsteak from some cheap 20¢ pack of seeds.


A Mortgage Lifter from a couple years ago.

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That’s one damn fine tomato!
 
It was a one slice covers the sandwich tomato. Used it for some BLT's.

Most of these tomatoes are Mortgage Lifter except Roma's and San Marzano's on the right. They didn't all get as big as that one.

It was a good year for tomatoes.

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Excellent! Yeah, I forgot San marzano.
 
Black Beauty Zucchini. Tomatoes include Mortgagelifter, & a couple heirlooms that I’m drawing a blank on right now.

Other ‘maters are Big Daddy & Red Brandywine. Some herbs in a silly effort to mask smell of other plants. Lemon Balm, Lavender. Did NOT plant basil; the one herb I like to keep on hand fresh for cooking. I don’t find the herbs to be so aromatic, unless I crush a leaf. This is actually looking to be my first successful (outdoor) garden, if the wheels don’t fall of.
 
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