As mentioned in other threads, I had some early issues and replanted the entire garden over the past 3 weeks or so. The following is where I am as of today.
Snow Peas. I planted these about 5 days ago. They seem to be coming on strong! There are 12 plants that have broken ground thus far, some are more apparent in the picture than others.
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And this is my Snow Pea trellis. Just some poly coated aluminum stakes with plastic poultry fence zip tied to it.
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Radish in the closest square foot and beets in the next square foot towards the top of the page. Will be thinning them out in a week or so. Want to see which ones suffer the minimum bug attack. The radishes are planted on a 2x2" grid within their square foot and the beets on a 3x3" grid in their square foot.
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This is actually two summer squash plants growing, will be thinning one out shortly.
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One butternut, I think. I didn't check the tag. The one above may be the butternut and this one might be the summer...
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This the the tomato bed. 4 varieties and 10 plants. Chocolate cherry (2) were replanted last (about 5 days ago) because I thought the originals might make it - but no. The replants are just peeking out of the soil in the back (you can't see them). I also have Jubilee (2), Super Beefsteak (2) and Roma (4).
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This is a closer shot of one of them. I'll be thinning these to one plant also as they get a little more established. Might even consider transplanting a few of the extras that are doing well into a container or two.
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These are my cucumbers, planted about 7 days ago. There are three varieties but they escape me at the moment.
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This is my cucumber trellis. I grew these suckers two years ago and they grew off the top of a 5 ft trellis in a couple weeks. Hopefully this 7' one will provide room. If not, I'll cap it with perpendicular beams or arc them over the top and back down the other side. It'll be a game time decision.
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This is just a wider shot of the cucumber trellis and cucumbers.
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This is a row of Lima Beans (Fordhook No. 242). I destroyed the last batch. I have 5 that were planted about 10 days ago and another 2 (closer to the bottom) that were planted about 5 days ago. I don't think they are visible in this photo, but they have just broken ground in the past 24 hrs and are about 2" tall.
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I have to thank "The Waterbug" for the cage idea I'm using to keep the squirrels at bay in my garden.
I've made about 20 of them so far and I imagine there will be a few more. Note the picture of the Lima Beans above was inspired by the same varmint cages. However, since this cage covers the entire row of Lima Beans, which are more closely spaced, I didn't want to use a single cage per plant. Therefore, I made a PVC frame that spans the row (about 44") and is about 12" wide. I drove a larger PVC pipe into the bed and slipped the frame with poultry fence into the ground pipes. 100% removable! I'm considering making a shorter but wider one for the ground veggies but I'm going to wait and see if the squirrels or other varmints start nipping off entire leaves. It may sound more like a pipe dream, no pun intended, but it really seems that caging the plants has also dampened the bug invasion.And, finally, this is my entire layout. The beds are in a 2 x 2 layout, not linear as depicted below. This just shows what is in each bed.
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