Spring garden update

How does it look??? Not bad at all.


We've even gotten something to eat from it!! Two loverly cucumbers! We've also enjoyed lots of cilantro. We have two green tomatoes (and NO nasty green tomato worms!!) And our watermelon, green beans and peppers have blooms.

I didn't know when I bought it that asparagus takes two years to harvest, so it's growing fine, just no fruit. Hmmm, seemed like a good idea at the time!

We're also trying our hand at potatoes. I read about how you can grow them under straw w/ no tilling or digging. So, Jonathan and I worked on a potato garden.

He's watering it after it's done.

I raked up the straw after he used to sickle to cut all the tall grass to use as straw.

Even if the potatoes don't grow, at least we got the weeds "whacked" in that overgrown flower bed. **Perk of living in the country....nobody cares if your flower beds are overgrown! :-)

We also planted potatoes in soil in the middle orange tub. We're trying it both ways.

Here's Jonathan planting the potatoes in the tub. Another country perk, in the woods on our propery it wagons full of beautiful, rich soil. I just send the boys out to fill a bucket or two and voila, rich soil!

So far, the potatoes in the tub are doing well. They're sprouting, which means we had to cover the sprouts w/ more soil so they grow into potatoes. The ones in the straw are...well..rotting under the straw. No sprouting going on. But it's no big deal. Live and learn.

We also have two of our hens who are laying. Goldie for sure and Comet, we think. So we're getting two eggs a day now. We've even had two double-yolked eggs from the girls!! Two eggs/day...two cucumbers...we're well on our way to being self-sustaining! Now if we could just figure out how to get male goats to make milk......