Our Victory Garden

Jim looking over the garden plot

We decided to plant a small garden in our back yard in a flower bed.  Last year we planted tomatoes, peppers and squash in about 1/3 of the flower bed.  This year we have enlarged it to almost 2/3 of the flower bed.  I relocated many of the bulbs, day lilies, and perennials to other places in the yard.  You can see some of the day lilies in the photo here, on the left side.

We started our veggies from seed in the greenhouse this winter.  Seeds are very expensive and the packets only contain a few seeds.  Last Monday when it was warm outside, we planted 12 tomato plants next to the greenhouse, and put pine straw around them to protect them until they get bigger and stronger.  We left space to plant some more tomatoes in a few weeks.  They are growing in the potting shed right now (greenhouse is too hot now).

Set out some hot pepper plants, 2 zuchinni squash plants and 4 mounds (4 plants in each group) of cucumbers.   Earlier I set out sweet GA onions around the perimeter of the garden.

Most people wait until Good Friday to plant their gardens.  But that is so late this year - April 22nd.  Last night we had to cover out plants since the temperature dropped to almost freezing.  Maybe we should have waited until Good Friday.

This garden will supply us with a lot of good vegetables, or at least it did last year and was much smaller.  I only wish we had room for some row crops, i.e., sweet corn, peas and butterbeans.  I'll just keep buying those at the farmer's market.   I can't wait for the first ripe tomato to appear in the garden.