Sweet Local Farm

The vegetable garden is now about 90% planted out. We need to finish planting one more type of pumpkins and re seed some spinach, arugula, and carrots. Most of the beds are even weeded, but some need to be done.

We are eating rhubarb, herbs, swiss chard, lettuce, radish, and sugar snap peas.

Small peas and many more blossoms:

Crisp red and green lettuce:

Celery:

Tomato plants growing quickly:

These stakes are leftover scrap wood from our pergola project. They are very sturdy.

Strawberry:

First year asparagus:

Corn:

Grape vine clippings just starting to root:

See the growth at the eye?

We broke ground on what will be our main vegetable garden. This is what the field looked like before:

Luke staking out the garden:

After we cleared out all the sod, we brought in 6 wheel barrel loads of composted leaves:

This is what they mean by “black gold”:

Look at all the worms!

Once the beds were made we planted the soaked pea seeds:

We tamped down the seeds and filled the beds with pea brush for the little plants to climb on. Then we watered the beds:

All done!