Happy Saturday

 Hi Everyone!

Well it's a happy day! 

Yeah, I'm addicted to gardening.

This evening I was checking the garden when I came across 3 plants with.... are you ready? Cauliflower!!!! OMG!!! This is the best year for brassicas. I will stop complaining about the cold nights because the broccoli, cabbage, and cauli are giving me so much food. Seriously, how cute is this very baby cauli?

The garden is thriving, even through the cold nights and strong windy days. I take photos every week for my records and today I will show you the best of the best.

click on any photo to enlarge it. 

This photo shows only the front of all the peas. This plant is loaded.	All of the potato plants are doing great. This one is starting to wilt and fall so I say another month and I can harvest this one.
Cucumbers, onions, carrots	and the new beets are already coming up. Darn shadow.
Cabbage, brussels, onions, and carrots.	These are radicchio. I've never grown this before so we will see how it goes.
More onions in the brassica area.	I'm so happy with my squash since I sprayed it with milk.
Squash is coming. Plant 1	This is the plant that I sprayed the milk on. Plant 2

Every year I try something new to see if plants grow better. This year, instead of planting all of the onions in one big onion patch, I have them growing in 6 different places with companion plants. They seem to be doing just fine. The other thing is I have staggered my growing. Since I have to grow mostly in containers, space is at a premium now. Plus, I don't want everything ready to pick at the same time. For the squash, I have the two big ones in the photos, behind them are 2 more plants that are much smaller and I have several seedlings in the art room. I'm hopping this will give me a better harvest.  

One not so fun thing is that something, raccoon I think, at some red cabbage.

2 to be exact.  

I've got it fixed with my special hot spray and a live trap, and a noise maker. Nothing has been eaten since. This is the first time any of my plants have been eaten on. However, I'm the only one with a garden this year. The other two that used to garden across the street from me have moved and so I am up for grabs I guess. LOL

 

A few of my flowers are starting to bloom too.

I love these fuchsia.

 

and these just keep on giving. 

 

Well, that's it for garden day. I would love to see what you are growing, leave a comment so I can check it out.

Nicole