The 2014 gardening season is well underway at our place. We decided to scale back this year, just gardening in our main garden area and sticking to only the veggies we eat the most.
That means I didn't plant any pumpkins, cantaloupe, watermelon, zucchini or squash. The pumpkins, cantaloupe and watermelon all need lots of space to spread out. But they also need to be surrounded by chicken wire to protect them from the ladies. Going to all that trouble for this final year of gardening in this space just didn't seem worth it. Plus, I usually spend a lot of time hunting down squash bugs in the pumpkins and with the house well underway we decided that spending lots of time in the garden might not work out very well this year.
We planted lots of potatoes and onions (although only about half of the onions actually came up!). I also planted some lettuce and spinach. The lettuce was ready to cut this week, but the super-hot temps (100 degrees in May? Give me a break!) turned it bitter. I cut it all off tonight and hope that the temps in the coming week will bring a second growth that we can actually enjoy.
The beans have sprouted, so have the cucumbers and we're waiting on the okra to appear.
Ben made me some fantastic (and sturdy!) tomato cages out of cattle panels.
The plants are off to a decent start - now if we'd just get some rain I could stop watering the garden!
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