Late June - It's A Garden!

Finally, finally the garden is looking like a garden! We are harvesting real veggies again. By late June we saw the harvest of radishes, daikon, turnips, and a few herbs. 

Not much but we're on the verge of getting more real soon. July we should be tasting potatoes, cukes, squashes, and more. Can't wait! 

The French Breakfast radishes are real successful for us. 

Above is one seriously crazy daikon! 

We're still digging out rocks and making more beds. 

Here you can see Laurie and Missy raking in the wood ash and coral dust into the next garden beds. 

And we are planting more tomatoes, eggplant, peppers, carrots, taro, broccoli, Chinese kale, lettuce, and herbs. Above, Julia is busy transplanting baby starts into the next bed. 

As we are growing starts, we need more fine soil for the pots. Above, Linda and Carl sifted about a cubic yard of nice compost/soil, getting all the stones out. We then mixed this half and half with promix. It made a nice potting soil for starting seeds. 

Sue J continued setting up trellises. It's a slow job, but an important one. She's our master trellis maker. 

And Doug never runs out of places to dig! Since only half the area had been previously used as a garden, that means that we are finding lots of good sized rocks. By getting to rocks out, we are able to till in soil amendments and grow root crops. 

We made a couple of pallet boxes to make compost and to use for sweet potatoes. We lined the boxes with whatever we had on hand. In this case it was an old tarp and a dogfood bag. 

Out in the garden lots of the seeds we've sown are sprouting. Above is the baby peas. 

The onions that we transplanted are growing again. Not much to look at yet but they are coming along. We don't know how big they will get, but it looks like we will harvest something at least. We've mulched them which should help keep the weeds down. 

The tomato plants are all starting to grow. These are Roma tomatoes. 

And the potatoes are doing great! 

As soon as the beans sprouted we applied some mulch for weed control. We are seeing some weeds starting to sprout and a bit of grass returning in places. The grass was such a major problem in the previous garden there we are taking extra steps to avoid it here. 

The first planting of carrots is coming along. These Matt grew as starts and we transplanted them into the garden. The other bed we direct seeded. 

We've tried direct seeding some onions. Since they will be slow growing, we interplanted some radishes.