Finally!

After a 6 month winter, my growing season is finally here. This was the weirdest spring we've seen in a long while here in Sacramento. So much so that I had actually thought about not growing a garden at all this year. The poor little tomatoes I dropped in the ground in May struggled with the many wet storms and cold weather. Just when I was ready to give up summer hit us like a brick and in two weeks my garden went from pitiful to plentiful.

I planted corn on a whim this year although I've always believed that it's not worth the garden space that it takes up. I planted white against the back fence and yellow on the side. Yes, the two are way too close together, but what the heck let them cross breed (it's not that serious for me especially for something I planted on a whim.

It seems like I walked outside today and that pitiful garden had blooms all around it. I swear the tomatoes seemed to have grown 3 feet overnight and there are actually tomatoes and squash out there.

Marzanno Paste Tomato

Collard Greens and Tarragon

I decided to shake things up and interplant my herbs amongst the vegetable to up my anti-bad-bug battle. I used cedar bark to mulch this year although my other half says I'm going to regret it. I think it looks good, smells good and I'll worry about it breaking down in December :).

California Bell Pepper

This is the first year the slugs and snails haven't devoured the poor pepper plants before they had time to grow and thrive. Ha...ok thanks to the generous sprinkle of Corey's ( my only deviation from my organic gardening, cause the green friendly stuff just doesn't do it..the snails laugh at it.. believe me I've seen them:))

Lemon Grass

Remember when I said, I walked outside and everything seemed to bloom overnight. Well I wasn't kidding, the squash got a little bigger than they were supposed to.

Eightball and Scallop Squash

I'm seeing a bit of powdery mildew on the squash leaves..hmm going to have to watch the overhead watering.

The eggplant still isn't happy. Hopefully these hot days will help it come around.

I planted horseradish, now I just need to figure out how to harvest it and what to do with it after that.

We planted these artichokes early last year, but this is the first time we've seen any artichokes on it. It's partner plant next to it looks like it's on it's last leg. Survival of the fittest I guess.