One leaf at a time in HMB

Here's the mid-June update from FBF in HMB on how things are looking in the raised box garden. It seems like everything is growing fairly well, though I think I may be over-watering the peas and spinach, so I'm going to cut back by half on those two.

I also finally conceded that my little pepper seedlings were just not going to make it, so I broke down and bought jalapeno, orange, red, and chinese giant pepper starts from the HMB nursery. Of course, the next day, voila!

I haven't figured out exactly what I'm going to do with these, but I suppose I could put them in a pot. We just don't need that many peppers, but then again, I'm very curious to see how they do and how they taste compared to the ones I bought. I'll find room somewhere.

I also started some dill from seed, and it is up and growing.

And now for the rest of the garden:

A mass of wildflowers.

I still don't know if I'll be able to actually grow watermelons, but at least they are up and out of their little hills. I've covered them with black paper in hopes that will help them get the heat they need. Also note the nasturtiums are really happy! Here's a little bug bath I added. In all, I put 4 throughout the garden in hopes of being friendly towards all the little creatures will give me good garden karma, or at least, encourage the good bugs to do good deeds.

Here's my Pruden's Purple tomato. It is growing very well, and appears to be quite happy.

And here are the Moskvich, Sun Gold, and Stupice, plus the new peppers.

The Mosvich has a baby well on the way.

And the Stupice has twins!

The basil sure is taking its time, but I'm hopeful that it will make faster progress soon.

I added some garden tape to the pea cage in hopes that it will give them something to grow up and around. Also, there is a sunflower in the middle of the peas and behind them, which I hope the peas will also use for support...which would be cool!

As to be expected, the zucchini are growing an inch a day, it seems. Here are the zucchini twins:

Only slightly behind them are the butterstick squash.

The beans haven't been growing as fast as I thought they would, but they are certainly putting out nice leaves, so I remain hopeful.

Here's the salad box. The onions are really happy, I replanted the garlic cloves (mistakenly planted the bulbs the first time around) and am curious to see how they do. I also got to "harvest" some of the garlic (basically, just used what I couldn't plant), and it was delicious!

Here's the tallest sunflower so far -- go overachievers!

And though this isn't a picture of my garden, it was just so pretty at sunset on Sunday night, that I had to include this to share.

Fat Bottom Farm, Oregon (FBF)

Long day on the farm & in my garden, too. Here are a few photos from FBF Oregon (Carol's farm).

Tomatoes.

Beans.

Quinoa.

Bachelor buttons.

Two varieties of bumblebees.

The fruit orchard.

Peas N Bubbles

Sun Slays June Gloom!

What do tomatoes, watermelon, and Jen have in common? We love sun! And there has been far too little of it here in Half Moon Bay as we've headed into "June Gloom". Bleck.

Thankfully, the chief executive meteorologists with their spiffy Doppler 3000's have been absolutely wrong in their forecasts of overcast and light showers, and we have had two -- count 'em! -- two whole days of intermittent sun! That's good enough for me and loads of excitement for the lil' ones out there in the garden trying to grow up.

(Of course, now I've gone and tempted the weather gods and probably will get smacked by a hurricane tomorrow...)

Anyway, here are how things are looking:

Can't believe I went from working 80+ hours a week to watching my garden grow. I've gone from Gordon Gekko's right hand gal to Mary-Mary-Quite-Contrary in under a year's time.