Our Garden

Since before the last frost...which by the way was the middle of MAY!!! Forrest and I have been growing vegetables. We started by planting seeds in peat pots inside of the house and in May we began to dig our garden outside. We then transplanted some of the peat pots and added a lot of seed to the garden. We have since found that the things we planted directly into the garden as seed did much better than those we transplanted from the peat pots. Go figure. We are also growing everything organically. We purchased all organic seeds and have only use poultry poop as fertilizer.

Here are some of the things growing in our garden.

• Corn
• Green beans
• Squash
• Broccoli
• Cucumbers
• Tomatoes
• Carrots
• Spinach
• Lettuce
• Onions
• Basil
• Cilantro
• Parsley
• Rosemary
• Bell peppers

While there is a lot in the garden, we have only begun to harvest lettuce, spinach, all of the herbs, and cucumbers. Another reason we are so late getting anything is that we planted everything from seed and the growing season in Ohio is much later than NC's. However, we are excited about the veggies we've gotten so far and can't wait for the rest to be ready. Here are some pictures of our garden. These were taken a few weeks ago so everything is much bigger. Especially the cucumber, corn, and squash plants, they nearly take over most of the garden.

Our beans..we thought they would climb but to our surprise they are bush beans!

The cucumbers that have doubled in size and have 4 times as many blooms.

The squash on the left has also doubled in size.

Our corn is to the top of the fence now.

The tomatoes in the right front are also above the top of the fence.

Broccoli, onions, and green pepper