Better late than never...that's what they say.
June was a busy month...full with swimming, pizza nights (at the pool), homemade popsicles and more swimming. You'd think the kids would be water-logged...but we still have a lot of Summer to go!
June started out with a bang in the garden and then ended with some complications, mostly of the buggy and hot kind.
This being my first year of having a REAL garden means there is quite the learning curve. Being a newbie coupled with my almost visceral reaction to researching anything before doing it means we are learning on the fly y'all.
That being said...Lessons learned in June:
Plant your zucchini in mid-July to try and avoid vine borers that will suck the life right out of your plants and leave you with wilting, sad shells of zucchini plants and if you manage to get ONE zucchini it will have a gross grub in it. :(
Also, make sure your soil has enough of the right minerals and such to avoid blossom end rot. (Gotta get a soil testing kit)
Peas don't like it when it gets too hot and will start to brown and die. Replant in Fall for more pea goodness!
Cucumbers don't typically like it when you transplant them. I got lucky with one batch but the ones I moved to the pumpkin patch...no dice.
DON'T plant your carrots too close together or you will end up with something more like microscopic carrots...not even on the baby scale.
Plant your onions sooner after you purchase them than later...poor babies didn't make it.
This month I tried to wrangle the cucumbers that have taken over everything, keep all plants watered as best I can, planted more carrots where the failed onions lived and did lot of looking up ways to control bugs naturally in the garden. We ordered neem oil to try and get rid of all the pests eating my sunflowers and peppers and our Fall seeds and a good ground cover for Winter.
Here are some pics (only from the front of the house...no backyard pics yet):
The sincere pumpkin patch with failed transplanted cukes in the middle
Struggling jalapenos, basil, rosemary, strawberries, sunflowers and greens
Box #2: Sunflowers, marigolds, cosmos, newly planted carrots, cuckes, dying zucchini and dill
Box #1: Jalapenos, carrots, zucchini, cukes, marigolds, peas
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Will be back with pics of the tomatoes and backyard zucchinis. Looks like we may get to harvest potatoes this weekend!
Total food grown this year:
2.93 lbs
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