I thought it would be fun if we had a forum thread to share what we are doing in the garden.

Yesterday we put down rolls of landscape fabric for our tomatoes.  I’ve planted out all the tomatoes except one flat.  I hope to get that in today.  Most of the rows have been covered with a white floating row cover.  These make great frost protection and also act like a mini greenhouse.  I also soaked and planted our sweet corn and green beans.

Today I’ve watered the corn, strawberries and brought my remaining seedlings out to enjoy the hot day we are having!  We need to get more landscape fabric then I can finish putting in the tomatoes and peppers.  I hope to get the beets and carrots into day as well.

So what are you all up to?

We finally got the new manure in the food garden yesterday. We have a raccoon (I think, the boys used their animal prints book) tearing up our yard right now. I’m glad I hadn’t but one pumpkin in so far. We set the trap and the food was gone this am, trap empty. arg!

We are planting beets, cucumbers, lettuce, cabbage, pumpkin, peas and tomatoes. I’m going to put potatoes in the raised bed.

Meanwhile, we put in a planter the boys are made in the front yard and loaded it with plants. There are foxglove, african daisies, lavender and some other little plants. I only put annuals in the very front so I can change the look every year.  I post pictures of the food garden soon! We plant rather late in Colorado.

@Theresajh Your raised bed looks great!!

Thanks ladies! Yes, our trap was sprung too. Tonight the boys wrapped the food. I’ll let you know tomorrow if we got it!

We’ve been working in the gardens most of the weekend.  But boy it’s been hot, about 30C over the weekend.  Thankfully it’s cooled off a little bit.  I’ve finished planting the tomatoes, peppers, egg plants and cape goose berries.  My Wisconsin pickling cucumbers and streight eights.  Oh and my bush beans are starting to come up!

The kids and I also planted their giant max pumpkins and their cherry tomatoes, cucumbers and lettuce.  I’m hoping to finish their garden tomorrow.

Most of the potatoes are in as well.  We left one row for the purple and all red ones.

We had thunderstorms pass by us last night.  Just close enough to see the lightning and hear the thunder, but not much rain here.  I heard one down pour that lasted maybe 2 minutes.  So I was out watering again this morning.  I water half the gardens in the evening and half in the mornings.  Then I fertilized the sweet corn.  Tonight I hope to do the other plants.  But we need rain SO bad!

Bonide has a product that works for potato bugs and beetles.  Saw it today when I was at Stein’s.  It is Captain Jack’s Deadbug Brew.  For organic gardening.  Also the EcoSmart organic pesticide that you can get at Walmart is good for plant eating beetles too.  This is what I sprayed the potato plants with last year, and I only got a handful of potato bugs.