How does your garden grow?

A beautiful day for gardening!  It was 70+ degrees up here by our house and 46˚ down by the lake.  While we were gone yesterday, our raised beds were magically filled with our new dirt.  Thanks, Billy!

After Leann got them all leveled off, it was my turn to start planting.  In the first one I planted a couple kinds of peppers and eggplant.  That will be a new one for us, but I tried making ratatouille a couple times last winter and we decided to try growing our own eggplant.  I also planted a couple kinds of beets around the edges, so we'll see how that goes.

Tomatoes went into another one, but then I realized I needed one more flat of tomatoes.  A quick trip up to Silver Sage greenhouse and we had tomatoes...and more peppers and herbs!  Her plants are so nice...can't just buy what you came for!

Two kinds of thyme, summer savory, lemon grass, oregano, parsley, rosemary and basil.

A third bed has all the beans--green & wax--and peas.  Peas are best eaten right out of the garden because it takes so many for any kind of a meal.  But they are fun to grow.  

And the final bed has several hills of cucumbers on one side, and carrots and radishes on the other.

At the end of the upper right bed is an old washtub that we have used as a planter the last few years.  It is has cucumbers planted in it.  We put a trellis on the side and they just climb up the trellis.

Today was also the day to transfer compost from the old container to the new.  To our surprise we found we had some kind of melon--probably cantaloupe from last weekend--already growing like crazy in with the rest of the compostables.  Which is crazy, because if you TRIED to do that, it would never work!

Two clumps of melon seeds growing...

After transferring the top 6 inches of compost to the bottom of the new one, we decided that we didn't really have any "black gold" yet.  Needs more time.  Gotta get the red wigglers!

We made one quick trip in Cammie up into our meadow today...without a camera!  Most of the apple trees are beautifully in bloom, and we saw a momma deer and a quick glimpse of her new baby.  Tomorrow I bring the camera!