Booty from my Garden - no, not that kind. I wish.

Quick post today as I oddly feel in the mood to write.  Gotta capture that feeling when you can.  I know I put a post up a couple weeks ago about my square foot garden and wanted to show you guys the fruits of my labor.  Labour for some of you right?  That pic above, the one I had to choose as my featured image which then doesn’t allow you to caption it, fun, shows some peas, if you can see them, and a cucumber growing in harmony in my messy backyard.  I love it.

I planted in mid-April

Lettuce, summer squash, zucchini, & cucumber.

Yep, got the boxes ready to from last year in like a day or two and put seeds in the ground, and mapped it all out of course, at the start of April.  The picture here is just what I’ve harvested within the last, I don’t know, 5 days?  I was able to start pulling stuff like the sugar snap peas and beans from early on, they’re continuous.

Other stuff like the squash had to grow, sprout, flower, and such.  I have learned a bunch.

Both varieties of squash, the green and yello pilgrim kind there, take up a frickin’ ton of space.  No idea how it’s supposed to fit in a square foot garden.

Also, they pretty much grew, flowered, produced and were going for a 2nd production but some bug got into 3 of the 4 plants and ate through most of the main vines, killing the nutrient supply.  It’s cool though, part of nature.

So less than 3 months and I was pulling stuff a couple of weeks ago?  And now is when things are really starting to take off?

Check out these melons!

Come on little fella, grow.

Well it’s just one but you wanted to see it right?  Yummy.  just the kind I like.  I am talking about this watermelon perv.  I’d like this one to be bigger but we’ll see.  Last year I had 2 sweet ones going but again, destroyed by bugs.  The 2 that flowered this year just don’t seem to be growing?  Time for implants maybe?

What would you grow in a garden?

Like I said, I’ve tried to grow broccoli, cauliflower, and onions both years here in the mid-South, they don’t seem to take well to the climate.

Lettuce seems to be awesome because it loves the sun kind of, and you can take outer leaves from all the plants every day.  It tells the plant – crap!  Grow more!

Peas and beans do well, constant harvesting once they start.  I wish I had more fruit though.  And like one of the pics above, my harvest is kind of like Plymouth Rock.  A guy can only eat so much guldanged squash.

I am pretty excited about this next one though.  Would you be?

Oh sweet corn

Cannot wait.

Last year I didn’t know what I was doing with the corn.  Of course I have seen corn.  I rode my bicycle across the state of Iowa for crying out loud.  I just never looked at corn growing before.  In fact, here is a link to the route me and my Grandpa took in 1987.  He was in his 70′s, I was 14.

Last year I tried to grow corn.  Along the way, I grew some spinach and lettuce as well.  When those two were all done, they went to seed, or flowered, don’t know the proper term  , they stopped producing.  That’s what the corn looked like to me last year so I yanked it.  I thought it had gotten pollinated, or not, lol.

This year, I just let it go.  I now see that the ears come out of the side right by the leaf nodes.  Crazy.  Moron.  So now I have some decent stalks growing.  One good one and two runts.  Hope it tastes sweet.

So you have a garden?  Want one?  Dream of having one someday?  What would you grow?  Would it be all fancy like with timers and sprinklers?  Or just you walking around with a tin watering can in the sun?

Oh, if you would like to check out that other post where I try to get you to go to Amazon and buy a square foot gardening book, click here.

Booty from my Garden - no, not that kind. I wish.