Your new towers look like they should work well for the beans Rita. All your vegetable gardening has made me want to plant more things. I'm working on digging up a huge amount of Dutchman's pipe vine roots that invaded a large area of my back garden and was just going to let it sit empty for the summer to make sure I had them all out, but I've already planted a couple new hydrangeas and some honey dew melon vines. Now I'm thinking it's not too late to plant beans. I'll probably go with the busy ones since I don't have any cages not in use.

Thanks! I am so pleased with my new bean towers and pleased with the little garden bed I made to plant the beans.

Beans grow fast. It is definatly not too late for beans. Not to late to start cucumbers either. The local nurseries around here still have tomato, pepper, squash and eggplant seedlings so I bet you could find some also. Not too late for root crops from seed like beets and turnips. There is a lot you can plant.

Ha! All you garden pea lovers eat your heart out! I picked peas today and had two bowls full. First time in years I have had enough to pick. And I still eat them out of the garden. Sugar snap peas.



And here are todays Zucchinis

So here are those big green pots, all three of them.


I have s spagetti squash in one of them. You can just about see the seedling that I planted in there yesterday.


And two pots have a tiny okra seedling each. I decided to do two pots of okra instead of just the one after my neighbor raved about how she loves okra.


So I had two Bok Choi planter bowls which I harvested the Bok Choi. Yesterday I planted my mustard seedlings in the one bowl and today I planted my Michili cabbage (chinese cabbage) in the other bowl.






I have these tiny, tiny seedling of Wakefield cabbage which I started from seed. So I planted this smaller bowl with the tiny seedlings. I didn't have very many seedlings.

Does Spinosad work on Striped Potato Beetles? I have picked beetles off my Tomatillo and my eggplants. I need to spray the cabbage family stuff like cauliflower and my savoy cabages for those green loopers so I guess I will just spray the tomatillo and see if it works.

So I was able to get more clumps of Tall Bearded Iris dug up and relocated again today. Started afew days ago. Really want to get some root veggies in this bed so need to get a move on. I have gotten that long rectangular bed to about half its size for iris, which means the other half will be my veggies. But I still need to move the dutch iris that are also in the bed before I can do much of anything else. But at least making progress.

The first vegetable I ever planted was okra. I planted about 50 of them and had no idea how much they would produce. I love okra, but think I am the only person in NE that likes it. I couldn't give it away. I need to divide and move some iris too.

I was happily surprised when my neighbor told me she loved okra. I figgured it would be a vegetable that I would never be able to give away around here. 50 okra plants would be an entire farm!

I see some flowers are starting to open on both my Green Machine and Sugar Cube melon plants. Not expecting anything yet though because I think these are all male flowers only so far.

All right! Made terrific progress on the move iris make into root veggie bed project.

I got all the Tall Bearded Iris moved and replanted and I also have moved the dutch iris. Everything is weeded. Well, by everything I mean both the replanted section of the iris bed and the section that will be veggies.

Then I went and measured it. It is 4 feet wide, actually 4 feet 8 inches but the edger pavers that outline each side of the bed are 4 inches wide each. So I end up with a 4 foot wide bed. Then the length turned out to be 8 and a half feet. That measures from the cucumber trellis to just in front of the first iris clump.

Now I need to rake it and neaten it up so that it would be ready to plant. Hurry for new veggie bed. The funny part all this and all the daylily beds you see around it used to be my veggie bed before I converted it to daylilies.




And the iris section looks pretty good.


The reason I am saying root veggies as opposed to oh, trellis with vineing plants or a tomato plant section is that I don't want to ruin the looks of the backyard by blocking the view or going tall. Looking across the backyard is just stunning when things like spring bulbs and then later daylilies are in bloom. So I am planning on lower growing crops and I really want root veggies. I feel root veggies are not so suitable for pots and are best in ground.

I have so many seeds. Golden beets, parsnips, onion seed, rutabaga, kolrabi, baby carrots and four different turnip varieties.

Here is one of the new zucchini seedlings that I had bought at my trip to the nursery afew days ago. Same size pot as my other green zucchini's.



Yellow zuc pots.


Green zuc pots.



Leeks maybe really for hilling.

Yellow zucchini's today!

Picked these yellow zucchini from my garden just a few minutes ago. I think I will broil them in the new convection oven. Slice in half lengthwise, drizzel with some olive oil, sprinkle with some garlic powder and pop in the oven. Nice healthy lunch!

Yummy!

No squash fruits here yet, but the bug covers are off since buds are beginning to form. Broccoli is still producing and a few of the pea vines survived the rabbit attack...only a few, but still, we just might get a few more pods. Picking a couple of bowls of strawberries daily, too! I guess the groundhogs are foraging elsewhere at the moment. Yippee!

My tomatoes that were in danger of drowning are going to be okay, too, so the trenching must have worked well enough. Long beans are thinking about climbing, so I got their wires up today.

Pulled all of the early radishes except for a few seed plants, and the entire row of blue kale. It bolted and we didn't really care all that much for it anyway. Planted more bush beans in their spot.

The long hugelculture bed of melons and pumpkins is beginning to show lots of sprouts! I really get the feeling that it's going to be a rip-roaring success. Here's hoping...

Cooking now.

I have already picked my brocolli and pulled it as I needed the space to plant some greens I had started from seed. I picked so many peas a few days ago, pea harvest was excellent this year and of course it is not over yet. I already seeded my second sowing of radishes. Tried kale last year. Mine never bolted but I hated it so it is not back. I have some blooms on some melons and some of the cukes have been blooming.

Chelle, all sounds excellent at your place. Hope that rabitt fence works as it should!

Newyorkrita said:... Hope that rabitt fence works as it should!

I'm hedging my bets on the rabbit fence. There's a small bean crop planted to mature first outside of the main electric fence, and two crops inside it. I'm hoping that if I don't get the entire perimeter done with electric, they'll only bother the first stand.

Hope that works!

Today was spray the tomatoes with the Daconil Fungicide day. I just finished. I am hoping to stay ahead of the tomato deseases this year as so far they look really good. Also Used some Spinosad on the Cauliflower. Hate those little green cabbage looper worms.

Yellow zucchini lunch was great.

After I sprayed the tomatoes I went and pulled the last of my boston lettuce. Have enough for a salad for tonight. Then I scratched up the ground and planted my Golden Beet seedlings and my Snowball white turnip seedlings in that area that had the lettuce. These I had started from seed but not direct sown as I was trying out growing the seed. But they sprouted and I had no place to put them until now. One short row of each but no matter. I want beets and turnips!

I will be sowing lots more turnips and some beets too in my upstairs new root veggie bed but I have not done any more work on it since yesterday. Have to plan out how many rows of what I can fit in that space.

Oh heck, I am so scatterbrained! I ment to post some pictures.

First my poor tomatillo, which has been bug eattern.


These are two of my eggplants. I think they are doing great and looking good. Now I just need them to bloom but I do see bloom buds coming.

Your tomatillo should be fine, Rita. They get that way here, too. I haven't planted them in years, but there are always volunteers that show up here and there.

I'm preparing a place now for rutabaga and parsnips. I'm thinking they probably should be started soon.

I used to grow Tomatillos years ago also but have not had them until now in a very long time. And yes, for years there were volunteer plants.

Me too on the rutabaga and parsnips. And more beets and more turnips. I actually don't know when they should be planted. But I had better get my new space fixed up for planting.

You know that I had no idea at all what rutabaga was until you mentioned it a while back. I thought it was a type of rhubarb.