Off to a good start.

Well, the garden is off to a good start. We have both white and yellow sweet corn in, cukes, green beans, spinach, five types of tomatoes (beefsteak, cherry, romas, lemon boy and golden hybrids), sweet basil, onions, garlic, carrots, bib lettuce, broccoli, green peppers, banana peppers, Anaheim chilis, and large sweet peppers, beets and of course, Pontiac Red potatoes. We also have watermelon, cantaloupe and pumpkins. We still have to put in the sunflowers, although we have some seeds in peat pots along with the zucchini, yellow squash, more corn for the three sisters gardens and more bib lettuce because I'm sure we'll go through it pretty fast. I started some Blue Lake pole beans for the three sisters gardens as well. I also installed a beehive just outside the wire fence of the garden in hopes that the bees will be happy to help us pollinate the garden. That is a story all to itself. Beekeeping is an awesome past time and super beneficial to both agricultural and natural plants. Not to mention, you get honey out of it.

We are using our companion planting charts to keep our tire beds full. The lettuce shares with carlic, the tomatoes share with basil, peppers, carrots and garlic and the three sisters gardens share corn, beans and squash types including watermelon, cukes, cantaloupe, pumpkins as well as zucchini and yellow squash. Eventually, I'll put some pictures on here, but for now everything still looks pretty small, although we did have our first garden salad of bib lettuce, spinach, green onion and boiled egg. Hard to beat that, at least until the tomatoes are ready.