Growing a Garden

Farmer Jimmy, I mean, my husband decided to plant a garden this year so that we could eat healthier. Here are just a couple of things he chose to plant:

• Better Boy Hybrid Tomato
• Red Tumbling Tom Tomatoes
• Contender Green Pod Bush Bean
• Roma 11 Italian Bush Bean
• Detroit Supreme Beet
• Super Blend Hybrid Broccoli
• Bubbles Hybrid Brussels Sprouts
• China Express Hybrid Chinese Cabbage
• Stonehead Hybrid Cabbage
• Red Cored Chantenay Carrot
• Sweetness I I I Hybrid Carrot
• Snow Crown Hybrid Cauliflower
• Giant Pascal Celery
• Silver King Sweet Corn
• Homemade Pickling Cucumbers
• Ashley Cucumber
• Dusky Hybrid Eggplant
• Lincoln Leek
• Sylvesta Lettuce
• Parris Island Romaine Lettuce
• Prizehead Looseleaf Lettuce
• Ambrosia Hybrid Muskmelon
• Athena Hybrid Muskmelon
• Cajun Delight Hybrid Okra
• Ailsa Craig Exhibition Onion
• Evergreen Bunching Onion
• Mars Hybrid Onion
• Goliath Snow Pea
• Sugar Daddy Pea
• Wando Pea
• Early Jalapeno Pepper
• Habanero Pepper
• Hungarian Yellow Hot Wax Pepper
• Bell Boy Hybrid Pepper
• Chinese Giant Pepper
• Rainbow Hybrid Bell Pepper
• Queen Hybrid Pepper
• Dills Atlantic Giant Pumpkin
• Connecticut Field Pumpkin
• Early Sweet Sugar Pie Pumpkin
• Champion Radish
• American Purple Top Rutabaga
• Bloomsdale Long Standing Spinach
• Goldbar Hybrid Squash
• Perfect Pick Hybrid Zucchini
• Purple Top White Globe Turnip
• Crimson Sweet Watermelon
• Solitaire Hybrid Watermelon
• Red Seeded Citron Melon
• Elephant Garlic Cloves
• Potatoes

I think we will need to invest in some new signage out front...Murtaugh's Fresh Market. When he does something he goes all out. The planting beds were built and the soil was mixed and deposited in them. They were sectioned off in square foot sections and we designed a planting diagram. He did a lot of reading. Let's hope it pays off and we are able to harvest something. Looks like we might even have our own pumpkin patch!

Soil, Fertilizer & Compost

Raised Planting Beds

Beds are sectioned with baling twine/Jimmy planting 1st seeds

Our 1st Sprouts-Lettuce

Bean Sprouts

Corn Shoots(where are the cows?...inside joke)

The Boys helping Daddy(well, James at least)

Planting Potatoes in the Tuber Bed