This gardening season hasn't been the best we have had but we are thankful the vegetables are beginning to grow. Here you can see the onions that we have been enjoying. We didn't plant as many this year as in past years. This bed also contains carrots but, as you can see, they aren't doing well. Too many seeds didn't germinate. The seeds were fresh but the weather may have played a part in the problem. Next week we will plant more carrots seeds in another garden bed. Homegrown carrots are so much better than the store bought variety.
In the second bed you can see the watermelon plants. This year we are growing the round, smaller variety. Can't wait to try one to see if they are as tasty as the old fashioned ones we grew last year.
One of the two beds where we are growing green peppers. Next week these plants will be ready to be staked up. While they are young and in danger from storms and high winds we cover them with greenhouse buckets.
These five gallon size buckets are the best invention we know about for successful gardening. If you close the rotating ventilation wheel the temperature inside the bucket is substantially higher which makes the buckets ideal for early spring planting when frost is possible. The buckets are made by a veteran in the USA which is an added reason to buy them.
The tomato plants began their life under greenhouse buckets but are now happily heading toward adulthood. We lost one plant to a varmint who nibbled it to death but we still have these four. Yesterday Terry noticed the first tiny green tomato. We sprinkled calcium around each plant last evening and it rained this morning so they should be protected from blossom end rot. The calcium treatment will be repeated about every two weeks.
Last week we trapped a huge groundhog and took him to the mountain to a new home. Yesterday we saw a rabbit hopping around the edge of our yard so the trap will be set again.
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