I think this is the first time that I've posted specifically about my backyard garden. I usually post about the greenhouse.
So, my garden this year is a little weirder than it has been in the past. It's been a wet year so far, and that has affected the garden somewhat. Some things are growing well, some things, not so much.
This is the corn patch this year. This patch of ground hadn't been used for several years, but we decided to plant it again this year. I buried a lot of maple leaves in this plot last fall to boost the fertility, but I think I may have made it attractive to root pests such as grub worms. Several of the corn plants started out good and then shriveled up. I pulled a couple of them up to see what was going on, and there were no roots on the plant.
We plant heirloom hard corn instead of sweet corn. We use it to make hominy. This year's crop is a red corn variety called "Bloody Butcher". We planted seeds from last year's crop.
The raised bed behind the corn has red onions growing in it.
I have 1 long row of potatoes growing in the garden. These are all Yukon Gold yellow potatoes. To the right is the white clover that we planted as a cover crop 2 years ago to help rebuild the soil. I didn't till that part up because I thought I wasn't going to be able to use that part of the garden. We were planning on having some roof work done, and they would have had to bring the trailer through there to get to the house, to haul away the old shingles.
The raised bed on the left is the carrot patch this year. The trellis next to the raised bed is where the pole beans have failed to sprout, twice. Very irritating!
This is the popcorn patch. I planted this about a week and a half ago, way late. I think almost every seed sprouted, which I thought was pretty good because it's all seeds saved from last year's crop. This is a short season variety called "Tom Thumb". The plants only get about 3 to 4 feet tall and usually have 2-3 ears that are 5 to 6 inches long. Everything about this corn is small. This is the same popcorn that I'm growing in my greenhouse as an experiment.
To the left are the potatoes, in the raised bed are bush green beans.
The bush green beans. At least these came up the first time I planted them. These are pretty small because I planted them about 2 weeks ago, later than I should have. In the background, to the right of the carrots, are bunching onions. They've been growing there for probably 4 years now. The plants come back every year, they're tougher than the winters here.
These are my sad outdoor tomato plants. They're finally growing now, the transplant shock was hard on them this year. I think they're starting to have problems from too much rain.
The strawberries are getting ripe! Yay! These things are soo good!
This is some of the grapes that we have growing. It looks like it could be a good year for the grapes, if they don't get the blight again.
I forgot to take pictures of the zucchini plants, hopefully I'll remember next time...
Thanks for stopping by and checking out my garden pictures, eh!
I hope you enjoyed them!
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