From Seeds to Harvest Weekly Update-Freebie
May 28, 2009
This looks like a fantastic freebie for those of you gardening with your children. Make the most of all the work! Skip past the advertisements and go to the free printables. Don’t you just love FREE?! You do have to sign up for their website, but that is free too!
Our garden is still doing very well, Emma brought in some green beans and is anxious to make some stir fry with them. Our herbs are doing amazingly well.
Be sure to log in at least once during the month of June (starting a bit early today) and let us know about your gardening progress, the good the bad, and the ugly, and you get your name put in for this month’s prize:
Blueberry Jam and a Hanging Dishtowel
Go HERE for the other post in this series for tips and video clips to help you out.
How is everyone else doing?
Topics: From Seeds to Harvest/Gardening Challenge, Home Education | 11 Comments »
Comments (11)
Mr. Linky seems to not be working for me. I’m trying again and hoping it doesn’t end up being a double post. If so, can you delete the extra one?
Just in case it never works, here is my post:
http://bluebarnbulletin.blogspot.com/2009/05/potato-lasagna-gardening-update.html
Kathy,
You are welcome to use photos from this week’s link for your gardening slideshow.
Hello Mrs. Brodock!
I think that the blueberry jam looks good. Please enter me in the drawing. I did have some good and bad things happen. The good is most of the plants are growing, and the bad is called ANTS!!
Thank you for doing another month of the challenge!
I can relate to the ant problem. They seem to be beating us to our strawberries more often than not. The rest of our garden is growing magnificently. This is our fifth year of gardening and…so far…the best. We’ve been blessed with nearly a month of low 80′s, perfect growing weather. This is also the first year the kids are old enough to really help with watering. Watering regularly is my biggest challenge. Karen…keep it up with the potatoes in the lasagna garden. My friend and I tried it a few years back. I had no success thanks to bugs eating up all my potatoes, but my friend’s potato patch did great. I love lasagna gardening and have a lot of success with it.
You may want to try Diatomaceous Earth: http://www.ghorganics.com/DiatomaceousEarth.htmlearth
Buy it from your co-op or farm supply store. It doesn’t cost much.
My garden did not prosper very well.I lost almost everything due to bugs,birds,and either to little or to much water.Our soil was not good in the first place all sand even though we added cow manure,ash,potting soil and fertilizer.We did get a huge amount of cabbage and I think the carrots are doing well.I am getting little buddha hand fruit too even though the ducks ate most the leaves off of the plant.We do have a really bad problem with ants too,but we do not use pesticides.So we will start over next month and see what happens!
Hi Everyone! Sorry I haven’t posted in a bit. My garden, however has been very happy. It’s rained a lot this spring. I’m on my second harvest of lettuce. The strawberries are sending out their daughter plants which is great but, the slugs have kept us from having many berries.
I need to be harvesting my green beans right now
The broccoli has had problems. Of 4 plants, I’ll be lucky to get one head and it’s tiny. I had to learn about imported cabbageworms and what to do with them!
I have 2 heirloom tomatoe plants and they’re very happy. The rosemary, stevia, and elephant garlic planted in the straw bales are all happy. I’ve been using the stevia in the coffee pot and it works great!
I also need to harvest blueberries from my yet unplanted bush.
my first set of herb seeds didn’t germinate in the straw bales, so I tried again in a pot and all are coming along well.
Oh! On the cabbageworm problem:
1st- I picked them off but saw a lot of tiny black ball-shaped items all over my plants. I couldn’t find info on that, so I gave the garden a shampoo.
2nd- In a hose-end sprayer, put dish soap and spray the entire garden well. Well, no more critters but, also no broccoli heads. ;-(
I have yet to figure out Mr. Linky…..
I will put up a few more pictures later today, but here are a few from Saturday with the 4 kids weeding the garden. http://weshallmountupwithwings.blogspot.com/2009/06/our-garden-update.html We’ve only gotten one banana pepper so far – but tons of stuff flowering and small green veggies. We have tomatoes, pepper, squash, and cucumbers doing well. We are hoping to get some watermelon and cantelope – but we’ve had so much rain! It’s keeping things too wet, so some things are still very small. We still are not sure why the 2 yellow squash plants are so small and so yellow.
Hi! Thanks for the chance to be in this challenge! Our garden plot is doing fabulously, praise God!
My garden post and photos are at http://ladyinthelamb.wordpress.com/2009/06/12/lush-garden-days/
One thing I’m sure helped a lot is that we put a little bit of micorrhizae spores in with each seedling when I transplanted them into the bed. First make a hole for the seedling, then pour about a 1/2 teaspoon of mycorrhizae spores in the hole, then put the seedling into the hole and allow it to gently fill. Or you could put it in if you just put seeds directly into your plot.
My cherry tomato plants look as big and gangly as regular tomato plants. On just one stem, I counted 17 tomato sprouts (down to the newest flower), and it’s still growing, so that one branch could end up with more than 17 cherry tomatoes on it!
I haven’t been in my garden the last couple of weeks. I injured my ankle and didn’t want to chance the trip up there since I was having so much trouble walking in the house. The Father has been so awesome to water it for me while I wasn’t able to get up there! I finally got up there a couple of days ago and was just blown away by how much it has grown! I went back up today and took some pictures. I can’t wait until my hubby gets home to show him!! Very excited!!
Be blessed!
Sorry about your foot Valerie. That’s wonderful about your garden!