Hello People!!!  It’s been a few weeks since I showed you our gardening endeavors, and I’ve got some new photos for you to see.  Actually, I’ve taken photos before, but never could seem to get here to post them for you.  I hope the wait will have been worth it!  Now, without further ado, heeeeeeere’s veggies!!!

First, we have Greg’s potato box. We are using a suggestion from Mel (the Square Foot Gardening guy), and will be stacking a few layers of boxes. Kind of hard to imagine, but I’ll take pics when it’s time to add a new one! His potatoes are starting to come through pretty good. The soil that he used was sandy and has packed down some, so they are a bit slower than they probably would be in the Mel’s Mix (By volume, one part each of compost, peat, and vermiculite).

Now, here are “my” taters! This is one of my regular square foot beds, but I wanted to see how New Potatoes would do in a shallow one. They are really growing like crazy! I can’t wait till they bloom, so I can dig in and find the small potatoes!

You also see how well the catnip is doing. I haven’t done anything to it this year, but it’s really getting bushy! They are too small to see, but my basil is starting to pop through the ground, too!

This is a close up view of my taters! Aren’t they gorgeous!!!

This bed has parsley to the right, cilantro to the left (it’s just starting up), and zucchini on the other side of the fence. The large parsley started up from what was there last year, but I also put seeds in a couple weeks ago in the six squares to the right. The six squares to the left has cilantro seeds starting, and a few little plants popped up from last year. I hope I can get some salsa made with fresh tomatoes, cilantro, and onions from our garden!!!

My peas are looking fantastic! I can’t wait to have fresh peas!!! There were a few bare spots, so I put in some more seeds a couple weeks ago. They are just barely starting to push through!

This is our modest corn patch. It’s actually a little larger than what we had last year, when we first tried it. Last year, it grew really well, in spite of the mini tornado (or possibly aliens ) that felled several stalks. We still got several small messes to enjoy! Can you believe we fit seven rows in that little space this year? Yesterday, actually. And we planted Silver Queen, cause apparently, that’s the only kind worth having, so says the hubby. LOL And, since we didn’t plant corn all the way down, we had enough room to put in a row of lima beans at the far end!

I think Greg made someone (in the most plural sense of the word) a bit upset when he tilled yesterday. LOL

This is the main garden. We’ve had the onions in for a while, but we just put in tomatoes, cucumbers, yellow squash, and lima beans! We didn’t do green beans this year, but we’ve never had limas, so we did that instead. We are NOT, however, growing maples, as it might appear. LOL

I put eight strawberry plants on the bank. I haven’t had any for a few years, so this will be a treat! That is, if the deer don’t eat them all.

And, last, but not least, we put in some cantaloupe! We’ve had some in this spot before, and they did very well, so we hope we have the same luck again this year!

That’s it for this installment of our square foot gardening updates!