Progress

March 25

April 14

Well, a lot of that green is weeds, but there is progress there!

For instance, the grape arbor, which you can barely see as wire arches.  As the grapes grow, it will be more visible.

March garlic.

April garlic.

And today's biggest news:

Yesterday we got 4.5 inches of rain.  I measured, not in this wheelbarrow, but in a non-leaking metal garbage can used to hold weeds.  This wheelbarrow actually has holes in its bottom; stoppered by mulch today.

Horseradish

Planted March 25.  They are big roots (that could have been ground up last fall) with these little green sprouts on them.

Here they are April 14.  Doing pretty well!

Harvest, 2011

So, what happened?  No pictures.  No story.

Well, there WAS a harvest.  Let's see.  I dug some very nice sweet potatoes; the best I've ever grown.  My friend Cindy was kind enough to cure them, and we're eating them still.  They are also providing sprouts for this years planting -- hooray.

There was good crop of peppers.  I sliced and froze many red and green.  The hot ones got picked before the frost, but only one batch got pickled and the rest spoiled.  Oh, well.

The tomatoes never came on.  Of the big table varieties, I had maybe six tomatoes all season.  That was a record for bad, and I've no idea why.  But I am going to stop with planting the peas and tomatoes together.  There's too much competition going on with a narrow bed.

The melons mostly, I'm sad to say, went to the chickens.  Owen picked some early good ones, but then the chickens were out on a regular basis.

The raspberries were grand.  The grapes made leaves  (too young for grapes).  The potato crop was good -- some quite big, many small.

And so it goes.