You can see in this box below the broccoli had pretty much taken over the entire box. I have never grown broccoli before so I didn’t realize how big they got, I will definitely grow them next year, I will just allocate more space! The onions are getting big, although they did get blown over in a wind storm the other night. I planted them from seed and a bunch didn’t come up, next year I will be either buying starters or planting my own indoors. I have already harvested all the spinach and lettuce out of this box, there is still some chard and a kohlrabi and a little bitty basil plant.
This box has mainly carrots. This is after I pulled that bunch in the above picture, so there is still a lot left. Those two baby cabbages are ready to pick and I have little ones on either side that I planted a few weeks ago when the ones before were picked. In the back of the box I had sweet peas, and they were lovely! However they had passed their prime so I pulled them. I also have some boc choi behind the carrots and some more broccoli, both are cool weather plants and since we can go into November some years with out a hard freeze I thought I would give it a try.
This beauty is one of my potato plants.
This is the potato box. They have done really well, I am hoping that under the big beautiful bushes are some big beautiful potatoes.
These are my beets. We have picked some and they are delicious! I love that you can eat the greens and the beet too. I need to pull them all in the next few days and put them up. I have never canned beets before, so it will be an adventure.
This is another view of the beet box. The other side had beans, but they didn’t do so well. I pulled them up and planted boc choi (Chinese cabbage) they are just starting to come up.
This is my patch of Summer Squash. They have done pretty good, they haven’t been as prolific as I had hoped, we have been battling squash bug all summer. I have gotten quite a bit frozen for the winter time, so I can’t complain.
This is my tomato patch, big beautiful GREEN fruit that won’t turn red…sigh…I just can’t grow tomatoes!
I planted the whole back of my yard with squash and they have been struggling, a few got munched by squash bug and the season was short this year, I did get a few winter squash, and if the fall is warm I might get a couple more.
This is a Queensland Blue pumpkin, I can’t wait until it is all the way ripe and take a picture for all of you to see, it is a beautiful squash.
and last, but not least, my number 1 super duper garden helper! She is always willing to do whatever I need done and she loves cutting my herbs for drying, but that is another post.
Wow your house is better than a store! I love it and I am WAY jealous. I am sure that Katie is a super helper!
I have always wanted to do a boxed garden. The house we’re leasing now has raised garden areas, but also dear and skunks and who knows what else, so I guess I will have to wait a while longer.
Your garden is really, really beautiful! It almost inspires me to go weed mine 🙂
IMPRESSIVE! Those are beautiful!
I have such a black thumb! Do you give lessons? 😉 Kidding. I think I’m doomed to be a farmer’s market groupie forever.
Lovely pictures! I’m suprised the deer haven’t been munching!? We have had a deer (same one?) looking for something to eat 3 times in the last month…during the day and early evening! Last night he (she?) was munching on one of my trees! If I had gotten my garden in, I’m afraid it would be deer bate! I’ve never seen them in the yard while it’s still “summer”…our fire must have burned up their food supply!