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The L-Garden in June

The L-Garden has mixed results. The zucchini is off to a good start, we have been eating some this week. Growing next to the squash is rat tail radishes, the first time I have tried to grow this.

Rat tail radishes and zucchini.

The onions seem to be growing extremely slowly, I’m not sure if it is the heat or that they don’t like the soil. I need to check the PH in these beds.

Onions and more squash.

The tomatoes under my makeshift roof are doing very well, the first tomatoes should start ripening soon. I actually need to thin them out a little bit so they get more air.

Tomatoes.

The cucumbers are also producing, the plant on the right was planted a few weeks before the others.

The first cucumbers.

It is hard to see in the following picture, but the row of tomato plants along the back wall are looking very poorly, this section is shaded most of the day. I am considering moving them into the E-Garden.

An overview.

The small kitchen garden on the side of our house (not shown) is bursting with Rucola and Lollo salad, a variety of herbs, and soon cocktail tomatoes and spinach.

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The E-Garden in June

The garden is starting to burst with fresh produce, this past week we enjoyed the first zucchini, cucumbers, peas and early potatoes of the season.

One of the zucchini beds.

I also harvested the red currents last weekend, here is a “before” picture:

Red currents.

The potatoes are looking good, despite an extremely dry year.

The potato patch.

The early potatoes that I harvested are not shown in the picture above, rather they are wild potatoes that grew in between my squash section:

Wild potatoes in the squash patch.

The area where I had buckwheat is now planted with Hokkaido and Butternut squash. I covered the wood-framed beds with fleece the first couple weeks, as the birds were eating my plants. Shortly after this the neighbors ripening cherry trees lured them away, and they haven’t been back. Now if only the slugs would leave.

Hokkaido and butternut squash.

My minibed test beds are doing really well, we have been eating lettuce and kohlrabi from these beds for several weeks. This weekend we want to pick the first cabbage and pointed cabbage. The chard in the back is also ready to eat. I have started adding shredded leaves as a mulch, the beds have been drying out too fast.

The minibed test beds are doing well.

I planted garlic last fall on some straw, I think this will be ready to harvest soon.

The garlic bed.

I also placed 30 strawberry runners in plant pots, I want to plant them in the bed shown once I have harvested the kohlrabi, brussel sprouts and other vegies.

Stawberry runners in planting pots.
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May Pictures

End of May, Bird Nets Installed
End of May, Potatoes are Growing Well

I also have a “wild” potato patch, from not cleaning out all of the potatoes from last year. These are early potatoes, so I decided to leave them and plant my pumpkins in between, we’ll see what happens.

End of May – Wild Potatoes from Last Year

I also cut the buckwheat and added a row of raspberry shoots. The rest of the area will be used for squash, pumpkins and maybe honeydew melons.

End of May – Buckwheat Patch