Back in May we planted up the vegetable garden in wine barrels. You might remember that post. If not, you can see this post by clicking HERE! The garden is growing beautifully and I wanted to share some photos with you! Now I do need to mention that I am having issues with the birds eating seedlings, and the earwigs doing some nibbling too…How about a preview of some of our tomatoes?
We have tomatoes!
Going back in time…Here is a view of the vegetable garden when we planted. Mother’s Day is when you want to plant a garden here in the Sierra Foothills! Ready?
May 17th
Here is a view from the deck of the garden today!
Looking over the garden today
Quite a difference eh? I have already harvested zucchini! Here is a shot of the zucchini with the acorn squash plants in front.
Zucchini and acorn squash
My corn is now in bloom and is over 6 feet tall!
Corn
We have 3 different varieties of tomatoes. Celebrity, a purple heirloom and a Roma.
Tomatoes
And, this year I am growing fingerling potatoes!
Fingerling potatoes
Also in the garden are wax beans and green beans. Having bird issues with these plants! We also have onions and carrots. The radishes have been eaten by something and same with the cantaloupe. My peppers are just seedlings and the cilantro is starting to get bigger! I will be replacing the melon plants with something else that I might see if I can get today.
I hope you have enjoyed this garden tour! Now go out and have a wonderful Wednesday! Thanks for dropping by!
Be well! ^..^
Life in the Foothills 
I like the wine barrel idea. I wouldn’t mind growing some vegetables, but I don’t want to grow so much I have to give away tons, or learn to can what we grow. Neither one of us like canned anything.
You can mix plants in each barrel. Maybe do a barrel of lettuces. In another barrel, radishes, carrots, and onions. Corn and green beans in another. A barrel of strawberries will give you a nice manageable crop! I am not fond of canned, and my husband for some reason loves canned green beans…ugh!
the garden’s beautiful! tomatoes are one vegetable that’s difficult to grow well down here… many attempt to grow them, but the plants get a blight or nematodes or… whatever!
as for seedlings, the biggest pest is: BIG IGUANAS! they nip the seedlings like a cutworm would, only they will mow down a row before the morning sun has crested the horizon!
Thank you Z! Bad nematodes! Bad, bad, bad iguanas! 🙂 I bought replacement plants for the cantaloupes. I got 4 watermelons. I am going to re-pot these to 4″ pots and let them get bigger before I put them in the barrels. I don’t think anything will mess with the chile plants I bought!
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my friends spotted a volunteer watermelon growing downhill from their house yesterday! and it’s BIG.. one of those striped ones! that’s always fun to spot a surprise in the garden!
Love watermelon! Was trying to grow Tuscan cantaloupe but something keeps pulling up the seedlings!
What fertilizer did you use for your tomatoes?
It’s the soil. We bought an incredible soil from one of the locals here. When it was delivered the driver told my husband that “This is the soil the pot growers buy!” Don’t know about that but the change in one month is huge! And, I have not fertilized yet!
What a difference a couple of months can make. All those good home grown veggies will taste great and probably much better than ‘hot house’ grown plants. Thanks for sharing and good luck with those critters eating your bounty.
Will be sharing bounty photos! And the difference is only 5 weeks!
Nice! Thanks for sharing the progress of your garden. I was wondering how it was going.
Will be featuring development of the veges and harvest photos RoSy so stay tuned!
Even chemo doesn’t keep the Garden Goddess out of her garden. Fabulous! Enjoy the harvest!
Actually chemo has kept me out of the garden. I am not to be in the sun and this garden is mostly in full sun most of the day. This is one reason I cannot keep up with what is invading my garden and munching. It is an amazing garden and I am looking forward to harvesting from it…I will be passing some of this on to you too! 🙂 Nothing like home grown veges Marcybee! 🙂
When is the harvest party?
Coming up! Will have a virtual harvest party, dinner and dessert…sound good?
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It’s exciting to see the leap in garden growth since May 17th photo. Veggies look robust and thriving. Wine barrels was an excellent choice for container gardening and they look good too. Looking forward to seeing the fruits of your labors.
I just need to come up with something to encircle the barrels with moveable pieces that keep whatever it is that is chomping on my zucchini from chewing on them! Have an idea…maybe I should patent it?
Your garden looks beautiful. Is it better to plant everything in pots instead of in the ground?
I am trying to avoid having issues with gophers and voles. Also, ground squirrels and fox.
I see, just being curious. In my opinion though, I think planting anything in pots is better than planting it in the ground because at least you know the soil’s good. Beautiful pictures, by the way.
Thank you! Heat can have an adverse effect to plants because their roots can overheat. You have to be careful!
Beautiful garden. I was just on my way out the door to pull a few thousand weeds from my garden. Yours looks so tidy!! Nice.
Will send you some suggestions on how to keep the weeds down…Picking seeds soon!
Looking forward to it.
You can put down a layer of newspaper where the weeds are, then cover up the paper with decorative bark, or peat moss. Or, in early spring, you might want to try spraying with a per-emergent. The most important part of weeding is getting the roots out. When I do weed, I use a trowel to get under the root. The weed will lift out easily. And loosening the soil when you do that adds air which plants find beneficial! One other option is to cover the area with black plastic. Really cover the ground well. Stake the sheeting in to the ground and let the heat of the sun kill the seeds and the weeds. In essence you sterilize the soil.
Bindweed is ROFL.
Might be where you are but I do not have any of that little devil!
Thank you. That will work in the larger areas. Right now I have weeds growing between my patches of various herbs and I have to get in there with a claw to get that cleared. But for the rest, those are good tips. Thanks.
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