Peeking Beneath the Leaves

The garden as it looked this evening. Currently I am enjoying a radish sandwich. If you are a fan of radishes, you should be disappointed that you didn't stop by this evening, because I was kindly sharing my radish harvest.

I have also enjoyed lettuce and chives...

For lunch today I had a cucumber

And this evening I even picked a green pepper.

Some other sights among the leaves....

Many Cucumbers to come.

Hungarian Wax Peppers

Tomatoes waiting to turn red.

More Peppers

Brussel Sprout nodes.

Cayenne Pepper

Radishes, Beets, and Swiss Chard

A Quick Tour of My Garden

I was a little creative with my garden layout this year --- but I also got a little carried away purchasing tomatoes (but that is a story for another time, just know that I have more tomatoes than I need.)

I planted my tomatoes in each of the four corners. I have a little rule that since I have a dozen tomato cages, I am allowed to have 12 tomato plants. Well I broke the rules and you will notice that I have some staked tomatoes. Then I have two circles of lettuce and onions, a circle in the middle of beets, radishes, carrots, and swiss chard, and two bean teepees at the other end. Along the edges, I have broccoli, cauliflower, and brussel sprouts on the left and peas and peppers on the right. This pictures was taken a number of weeks ago - the two plants just in front of the lettuce circles are cucumbers and I have already harvested 4 cucumbers and soon will have quite a few more.

Above: One of my staked tomatoes, between two cages.

Below: The peppers - including cayenne, thai hot, whitney, and king arthur, and hungarian wax.

My lettuce circle, with onions planted in the middle.

Weeds, weeds, weeds...

Last evening I weeded my garden, so if you stop by now it will look superb. If you would have come by over the weekend, you may not have known where to look for my plants. I have really been trying to keep it looking nice, but last week it kept raining and never gave the garden a chance to dry out. The one evening it was really nice, I went on a bike ride and didn't get home in time to do much in my garden. Oh well, it looks good now, minus the need to tie up my tomatoes to the stakes again.

Looking back at my posts it doesn't appear that I have shared anything about my garden this year so there is much to share. So here is what I did with my hanging pots.

The plants waiting to be planted. A nice variety of color.

When I emptied my pot from last year, I found a little friend. Perhaps I should buy a toad house...

All potted...

And up on the shepherd's hook...

I later added one pot I got at the greenhouse.

The one I got at the greenhouse is proving to be the most difficult to take care of. If you stop by this evening you may find my garden looking nice, but this pot of yellow not so nice. It needs watered everyday and it didn't like my weekend away, it is looking quite poorly. I watered it well and used some miracle grow on it, hopefully in a couple of days it will revive.