SPRING INTO SUMMER GARDEN!

PLANTING 300 STRAWBERRIES!!!

Lets explain first off we are crazy and this really wasn't planned.
We ordered some from a company. Wasn't pleased with their service. It was well into strawberries planting season. Our family really enjoys strawberries! Anyways, I went to a nursery and bought a little under the amount we originally ordered from a company online. I called the company several times to find out a shipping date. I called and cancelled my order 2 times and asked to email them too. Thinking this was a done deal. So, buying 100 strawberry plants wasn't that big of a deal from a local nursery.

So they are in the ground and we are ready for them to grow and produce.

Strawberry plants are started to grow.

The girls are in charge of pulling out all of the weeds and keeping the straw down around them.

Then the 200 strawberry plants, yes 200 live plants finally showed up in the mail.

No, they didn't cancel the order. UGH!

So, Skylar was off to plant the strawberries in our strawberry patch!!

Bless her heart she did it all by herself and didn't complain.

We are praying that we get some kind of harvest.

Guess what we got strawberries!!!!!!!

We canned homemade strawberry jam and have eaten so many fresh ones. All that hard work has finally paid off.
So growing 300 strawberries was a wonderful idea.

Winter is gone and spring is in the air. This is while everything is calm. No leaves on the trees and grass just starting to sprout.

The calm before spring turns into a busy summer.

We planted some grassy grasses up at the top of our driveway.

Tim getting the holes dug and adding mulch around them.

Now we wait for them to grow.

Right now they are so tiny.

Our first asparagus!!

Looks like this year will be a good year for them.

I planted them last year. So I have been waiting a whole year for them and this is so exciting.


Tim is making a few of these raised beds to put in the garden.

The asparagus got new raised boxes.

Don't mind the weeds.

This is the garlic we planted last fall.

It's coming up beautifully. We did lose a row and a half with our early spring rain we had.

We planted our potato buds and they are showing signs of life.

This year we are going to try something different. We plan on making shorter rows and bigger walkways. Last year we had rows but they were long. We got a ton of straw bales for free. Our plans are to use them for weed control.

We got the straw bales moved out of the way.

We ordered a trailer load of mulch.

Got our load and let the work begin.

We kept laying down cardboard or feed bags and straw in the walkways.

Add a thick layer of mulch in the beds and ready to plant.

In this picture you can see rows are forming.

On the left side you we are still moving the dark rich compost and laying them in the rows. The huge pile of mulch is coming down.

Work has been enforced until the garden is in.

Day by day and week by week it was starting to come together.

The vision we had at the beginning of this year. The talks and the planning. It wasn't done and not much planted but it sure was looking great to us.

Week by week plants and seeds were being put in the ground.

Watering nightly was becoming a chore until the first seed starts to sprout. The excitement begins and anticipation for the first harvest.

Cabbages, kale, cauliflower and broccoli growing here.

Planted horseradish in this raised bed Tim made.

He is so talented on what he can do.

It might not look like much to y'all but to us we have carrots, spinach, beets and radishes growing. Along side the rows we have onions. Yep another one of those we ordered online things and then bought at the nursery. Only planted 200 of them things.

We got one side planted and things are growing.

Been working in the rain in the garden just trying to get it in.

We planted swiss chard and 4 different types of lettuces.

That's all coming up and we got our green peppers and tomatoes in.

Red cabbage and onions

Broccoli

Cauliflower

Cauliflower and swiss chard

Lettuces

This year we are trying cattle panels for our tomatoes.

Also for the tomatoes this year we put in soaker hoses.

Not sure if we will need them this year and we have more than enough rain. Someday a rain catchment closer to the garden. 

Baby steps!

Been putting mulch around the tomatoes too.

Kaitlin got the blackberries trimmed back.

We even found a few small baby plants.

Growing some snap peas and peas.

We did lose 9 blueberry bushes.

At some point I will replace them.

*** Yes the plant right behind the sign is a grape vine***

Things in the Vineyard Garden is in full swing.

Companion planting with corn, squash and zucchini.

We did plant this area twice do to the rain washing everything out.

So we wait and see what will grow.

The corn, zucchini and squash are growing well.

So far not being washed out.

Grapes are getting big and starting to produce.

Blackberries are growing and flowering.

Raspberries are looking good this year.

I wonder if we will have enough to harvest?

Thanks for coming along on our journey.