These are all my pepper plants. There are 12 jalapeno plants, 3 habanero plants, 5 kung pao pepper plants, 3 purple beauty bell peppers, and two red hot cherry pepper plants. I have them all marked so I know which are which lol. They'll be ready to plant outdoors in roughly 4 weeks.
These are all the garden beds I have set up so far. There are 4 raised beds in the picture, two of them filled with dirt. Today or tomorrow I'll be filling the other two with dirt (with weed fabric at the bottom so grass etc doesn't grow through) and in a couple weeks I'll be building two more beds for a total of six. There are a bunch of flowering plants next to the right hand beds...those are scheduled to go into the front-yard garden as soon as it stops raining!
The plastic bins have lettuce and spinach in them, but they have died and I need to re-seed them. I put them in buckets because each bucket will grow about a dinner or two worth of salad greens (baby greens...much sweeter than full-grown lettuce) for our family, and this helps me accurately gauge how much I'm growing. I did it successfully last year but I started them when it was slightly warmer.
These are my pea plants. The ones in the back are vining peas. I need to get some support structures for them to climb on. The ones in the front are bush varieties and won't need support.
In between the pea plants I seeded carrots. I put two varieties in...thumbelina carrots (which are small and round like a golf ball) and purple carrots on the other side. You can see one of the pea plants to the left, and then if you look closely you'll see what looks almost like tiny grass sprouts...those are the carrot tops. Carrots and peas grow really well next to each other which is why I planted them this way.
One of my sisters has a friend whose parents were literally tearing up all their blackberry bushes along the fence so they could put up a new fence. This friend saved and took home a bunch of the blackberry canes for herself and asked my sister if she wanted some too. My sister is helping me with the garden and knew I wanted blackberry bushes so she jumped at the chance! She brought home six canes which we planted right away. It's a thornless blackberry bush variety that has grown like mad for years at the parents place. We were told to expect the canes that we planted to die back at the top, but that the roots will send out runners that will sprout new canes. There are only two in the picture here but we planted a total of six along the fence line. All these are along the fence to the right of the veggie beds.
I don't have pics of the tomato starts at my sister's place but she has the tomatoes going for the garden here. The other garden bed next to the peas has corn planted in it which should sprout in a couple weeks iirc, and when it sprouts we'll plant bush bean plants in between the three rows of corn. The bed next to that will have cucumbers planted in it within the week. The three beds in the front (one existing and two to be built) will have peppers in one, tomatoes in another, and pumpkins and watermelons in the last one.
Whew! It's a lot of work but worth it
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