Garden Update May 17, 2025

The garden is all planted. Yay! I’ll try to show you the pictures in the same general order each time so you can compare from one post to the next.

First, the planters on the patio are arranged like this:

Radishes:

Two kinds of lettuce:

…and the onions:

You can see the fenced garden beds just off the patio and garden on the hill from here. Here’s a close-up of the garden on the hill:

OK…back to the fenced beds just off the patio. The asparagus crowns we transplanted in the far bed are growing…we won’t cut them until next year, but it will probably do best in another year.

In the front bed, we planted our small tomatoes, called Raindrops. If they are as prolific as our cherry tomatoes last year, the neighbors may find bags of tomatoes on their front porches! We’re leaving the right bay of this bed empty for now. We might plant some flowers just for color!

The garden up on the hill looks good so far. My job this morning was to plant the last three sections with carrots, beans and zucchini.

The lavender is turning green. The rainwater tank is almost full and the rain barrels will top it off this weekend.

Bert planted the tomatoes yesterday! Proof…Bert does most of the heavy lifting in the garden.

The 6 plants on the right are the SuperSauce tomatoes from Burpee. The 6 plants on the left are called “Bodacious” and they are big and meaty!

The next section is planted with carrots. We have found the YaYa variety does well for us. Nothing to see yet!

The next section has green and yellow beans…yellow on the right.

And in the last section, 4 hills of zucchini. I know, we must be nuts to plant so much but last year we put a few plants in the beds where the asparagus is now. They just didn’t do well…and I spent all that energy last year anticipating a bumper crop so I was ready with many recipes to try. This year I’m really ready!

And, finally, my beloved Echinacea bed! I hope the bees are happy this year! I can hardly wait for the color!

So, that’s our garden this year. Each year we modify the choices of seeds, depending on how well it worked out the year before. Some things that we use only a little, like garlic…we buy from the local farmer’s markets. Other produce that I need a whole lot all at one time…I buy from the local Amish market because they usually have a lot at one time…like cucumbers when I make relish.

For the first time I tried to take a selfie up in the garden. My phone case with a cover makes it hard to handle with one hand. However, here’s proof that I actually planted some seeds in the garden today, although I’ll credit Bert with doing all the heavy lifting! Enjoy!