I love when it is time to garden again. I enjoy having a garden, tending the garden, photographing the garden, and best of all harvesting the garden. This is my second season using the two large raised beds my hubby built me last year. We have had so much rain that it has been hard to get things started but we did get the soil turned over and most of the veggies planted. I have a few more to put in and some patio tomatoes to plant since I accidentally bought too many tomato plants. One can never have too many tomatoes so I bought some patio containers and will grow them there.
I also am growing my herbs in containers on the deck. Last year I had my basil, parsley, peppermint, spearmint and oregano in the garden but this year I put it in pots. I am still in the process of transplanting the perennial and spreading mint from the garden to the containers because of the rain thwarting my best efforts. The local nursery did not have the zucchini and yellow squash plants in because of the rain, so I will have to try next weekend for them. I did manage to plant a variety of tomatoes like big boys, beefsteak, early girls, cherry, yellow heirloom, and probably at least another variety I am forgetting. I did not plant any hot peppers this year because I did last year and my husband who they were for did not eat them but ate the sweet peppers. So now I have a great variety of sweet peppers like sweet cherry peppers, sweet banana peppers, and a variety of purple, green and red bell peppers. I have purple and white eggplants, cucumbers, butternut squash, jack be littles, Howden pumpkins, blue lake green beans and sugar snap peas.
In the herb department I planted rosemary, cilantro, oregano, sweet mint, peppermint, spearmint, basil, thyme, dill, lavender, Italian parsley, and probably a couple of others that I am forgetting right now.
I am planting rhubarb for the first time this year, and we are starting a variety of grapes as well. We would have everything planted if the rain would stop but we are doing what we can and we are not that behind.
