kitch

so how's your garden going this year so far?

At the farm we have 104 tomato plants (just counted em) in one patch, bout 10 cucumber plants, with about 40 other squash plants including pumpkins, summer squash, crook necks, eggplant.

The strawberry bed is doing really well this season especcially considering it got run over by a pick-up truck during the winter (this was actually advantageous as it put 2 empty ruts through the middle of an otherwise densely planted patch, providing space to walk in) The bed is about 10 ftx20 ft with about 20 marble sized, very tasty stawberries per square foot. The strawberry bed is my pride and joy if you couldn't tell

We're working on clearing out some old trees and shrubs in front of the potting shed, and transplanting raspberries into there. They take pretty well but since you can't really put a net over them like you do with strawberries the birds and varmints take most of em. The one apple tree that's big enough just finished flowering and has prolly 200 or so small apples. We're organic so most of those will prolly be worm filled though. If you know any organic treatments for fruit tree worms please let me know. There's 2 other apple trees and a pear tree we put in 2 years ago coming in nicely.

The other 2 main beds have about 40 broccoli, 20 onions, 20 chives, 10 or so each of 4 kinds of lettuce, spinach, garlic, carrots and a pretty wide variety of different kinds of peppers.

The rose garden has been going strong for about a month now, every bush having about 3-4 nice looking roses right now. I dunno their names but we have bright pink ones, red, orange fading into white, pink fading into white and yellow. bout 30 plants total. The forsythia are going strong, so are the tiger lillies, prolly about 20 kinds of flowers in abundance right now.

So what's your garden hold?

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