Wednesday Post Not Lupus

 Hi Everyone!

I've only been gardening since 2014.

It started on my deck.

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And later that year evolved to this.

The next year I got this green house.

and then this

and my yard went from this.

to now this.

Far end pallet garden with 5 gallon buckets and 10 gallon grow bags. In the middle is the 8x4' big garden Mr. M. built for me some years ago and the little raised bed that has 2 4x2 beds.	Following the row is another pallet garden with 5 gallon bucks and 10 gallon grow bags. Then another raised bed. All of these have PVC pipe framing with poly for protection from the wind and torrential rains.
On the very far part of the  year I have started another pallet garden with 5 gallon bucket. In the dark corner is a cloche over strawberries and onions. You can just see marigolds growing too.	I cannot forget the potatoes that grow by the side of the house. They do so well here.

I can't believe 14 years have gone by with gardening and I can as much as possible from the garden. Every year the growing is different due to the crappy weather we have. Short growing time, horrible wind all summer, marine layers and cold. This year is doubly cold at night. We have only had a few sunny days each month since March. The cold is good for the brassicas and we have already eaten broccoli and beets. However, I have sweet potato slips ready to be planted but it is still too cold at night and doesn't warm up enough during the day.

Here is some nice growth.

This got big and we ate it last week.	This is not very big but it was great in tonight's dinner.
This is the broccoli growing on one side of the big garden.	Look at this nice cabbage growing with other brassicas on the end pallet garden.
Peas always do well here. There are some string beans planted with these too.	There are a lot of peas growing too. They don't mind the cold at all.
Slavia is new and doing well.	This is radishes, marigold and Italian oregano.
This is the other side of the big garden. beets, onions, carrots, radish, and cucumbers. There are some marigolds, and rosemary.	Close up of beets. We've eaten some of these and they are OMG good.
I got this plant last year. It made it though the winter	and now I have beautiful Night Sky Petunias. They are truly pretty.

 

 Here are the sweet potato slips really ready to plant, if it would only warm up. I cut the slips from a single potato set in soil. Then the potato grew more slips. It's a wild plant. I need at a minimum of 120 growing days. I don't think it's going to happen. We will see.

 That's a bit of my garden for now.

Are you growing anything this year?

 

Nicole