Ahhhh, Summer! I can't believe it's June already. We are half done with 2008! I sometimes feel I take for granted the first half of the year and hope it rushes by for the sake of warm weather. I could almost consider it selfish as God gave me so much time and yet I wish half of the year away in order to have some warm summer months. Let's make them worth it, mmkay?
I mentioned in the previous blog that I had been working on a few raised garden beds. Lo' and behold, we have completed them, dirt, plants and all, ready for the rain and shine! This year our crop so far consists of Tomatoes (four varieties), Bell Peppers, Jalapeno Peppers, Broccoli, Spinach, a variety of Lettuce, Radishes Basil and plenty of assorted herbs!
We have already had a few casualties so far. A few of our tomato plants, grown from the seed, fried the first day we planted them and got progressively worse throughout the first week. We picked out the dead / near dead and planted some store-boughts in their place. We managed to save four out of the eight, however. I guess we were supposed to "warm them up" to the outdoors as they were used to the cushy indoor life. The same thing happened to our Egg Plants... It's a definite, "Life and Learn" experience. I've never had luck starting plants indoors, so if we got four of them to stick around, that's a great accomplishment for me.
I'm also thinking we may have another crop of pears this year. I thought the tree was biannual, but I've seen numerous tiny pears behind the flowers already. Time will tell.
I am hoping to have periodic updates throughout the season of how things are progressing, if not for my own knowlege and understanding of my garden, so I will be more prepared next year!