The photo above shows our potato crop as of today, 2 May 2010. We planted these potatoes from seed potatoes on the 20th of March. We mounded them for the final time and will wait until harvest time. We also planted one extra row of Kennebec potatoes today. These will be harvested after these plants flower. These will be new potatoes, fresh from the garden.
Besides planting another row of potatoes, we had another busy day in the garden. Of course, we did some weed control, but we also did some more planting.
One of the lessons we learned from last year was the need to stagger our plantings so that everything did not come in at once. We planted two more rows of cucumbers for pickling. If you have never had Lynne's Dill Pickles, you just don't know what you are missing. These are so tart they about water your eyes and pucker your lips. And yes, I had one o her pickles from last year with lunch today.
Next we moved on to the Heritage Old Fashioned brown beans--3 more rows. Planted 2 more rows of spinach. We plan on adding more garden fresh salads to our daily menus.
Transplanted 9 Celebrity tomato plants. It will be a couple of more weeks before we can transplant the Early Girls and Romas.
For those of you following this blog and are wanting to begin in vegetable gardening, we highly recommend you pick up some gardening books. Our favorite veggie book is " The Vegetable Gardener's Bible". We refer to this book on a daily basis. I have provided the link for this book below.
Again, please feel free to ask questions or leave comments.
Sounds like you two are having a good time with your garden.
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