Monday, July 3, 2017

GARDEN IS GROWING WITH ALL THIS RAIN

Here it is July and the garden is really growing.  We have had 5-6 inches of rain in the last few days so now the garden is happy.  Blueberries are just about done and blackberries are slowing down.  Now it is green beans, cucumbers, tomatoes and garlic.  I am in process of digging Garlic as well as beets.  I am also redoing strawberry beds as some of the plants are pretty old.


 We picked a nice bucket of green beans this morning.  It should be enough for a canner full.  The pic below is our picking for today.  Berries, tomatoes and cucumbers and beans.  Mostly is what we had for lunch.  The beans are rattlesnake climbing beans and believe me they do climb.  Some of my trellises are 8 ft high and they quickly climb over the top and hang down 3-4 ft.  As you can see a days picking is generous.

I have included more pics below and will put labels on them.  One will show a Bean trellis and another grapes, blueberries and raspberries.
This spring the National Forest drained our local lake and cleaned out the bottom.  They hauled out 2800 dump truck loads and we got a couple of loads (approx 44 ton),  I have mixed a lot of this soil into the garden beds and it has been a good addition.
Muscadine Grapes (lt)  Blueberries  (ctr)  Raspberries (rt)




8 foot x 10 ft of green beens




      













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