May Garden Status

I am so far behind. The garden is bare compared to last year.

I picked up a couple more plants from the garden center. I bought a couple japanese eggplants, a black beauty eggplant, a couple tomato plants and a couple jalapeno plants. You can see that I haven't transplanted the eggplant and jalapenos yet.

I dug up this space to try a new crop this year. I am going to plant asparagus here.

Seeds sprouting

I planted zuccini and squash plants at the end of March and they are now sprouting.

I had picked up some bell pepper plants and a habanero plant from the home improvement store.

Spring Crop Planting Started

I finished setting the posts for the fence and I have the gate up so the fence is complete for now.

I built a new garden bed behind a shed I have on the side of the garden and added a lattice. Around the end of March, I had planted some pickle cucumbers seeds from last year.

On the opposite side of the shed, I planted green beans from seeds at the end of March too.

Late start planting in garden.

I am off to a terrible start this year. We are planning on getting some dogs this year so I am building a fence around my garden. The fence is still in work as shown below. Last year, I didn't have much luck with transplanting after I started plants from seed. I tried again to grow a few things from seed but the died again when I started trying aclimate them to the outside weather. I figure since I have a small garden, it is less headache to just by the plants from lowes/home depot. In the photos below, I have some brussel sprouts that I bought at lowes in Feb and had planted some onion seeds around the same time. I have a big bush of parsely growing too that I had planted last year.

Getting Garden ready for Spring

We were on vacation during the end of december and half of january. This year I have a slightly different mindset in that my goal is to get things planted by the end of March. At that time, morning sun will hit my garden from a different angle which will provide more sun. Some of the things I had planted early last year, were in complete shade up until around March/April. Some things didn't even sprout. I have re-arranged some garden beds based on how much sunlight they got last year. I am also rotating the crop this year to see if some things grow better in other locations.

The Garden is Dying

I am not sure what happened to this habanero plant. It was good one day and dead the next. I think it got root rot.

The powdery mildew killed the cantaloupe plant right away.

Powdery mildew has killed most of the garden now, including the tomatoes and peppers. Lessons learned about the type of support system used for the tomatoes. This is good to keep the tomatoes from falling forward or backward but they will fall downward or sideways. I also had five plants in this 5 foot rectangle box which made it too crowded. I suspect overcrowding helped to kill them.

August Garden Bed

The garden is not doing so good. The squash and zucchini plants started off with powdery mildew. I ordered every product I could fine and tried every remedy online and nothing would get rid of it. It then quickly spread to the cucumbers, green beans, watermelon, and cantaloupe.

Damn powdery mildew. The watermelon and cantaloupe did not even get to full size before the mildew got them.