My Life Monday - How Does Your Garden Grow?

I recently mentioned that we were restarting our garden this year.  Well, it is almost finished!  This post is mostly pictures, but let me just tell you that we are using organic gardening methods.  Most of the plants you see I started as seeds, and some seeds I just planted today so we will not see the sprouts for a few weeks.  Other crops (like beets, carrots, onions and spinach) I will plant every two weeks in order to have a rotating/continuous crop.  Our back yard is very small, so we decided to do a total of 5 small raised beds along the fence. 

Here is the 1.5 yards of gardening dirt we moved to the beds...my son had a blast helping with this.



One side of our yard...yes, our yard is not level.

The other side of our yard.  Eventually there will be some type of trellis on that back bed.

Cucumber, peas, strawberries, carrots, beets and onion bed.  We are using the square foot gardening method.  You get a much higher yield of produce this way.  Most everything is still seeds here, but you can see our strawberry and cucumber plants.  This bed will have a trellis along the back.

Mixed greens bed.  Various lettuces, arugula, Swiss Chard, Spinach, Kale.

See, here are two of the lettuces sprouting, one is red leaf and the other is butter bowl.

And here is a kale plant.  Tiny now, but in a few weeks it will be big.

Here is the eggplant, squash, zucchini bed.  The Zucchini will be staked to grow tall instead of trailing along the ground.  Everything else is bush variety and still seeds or seedlings.

 

 

Here is the melon bed with 2 watermelon sections and 2 cantaloupe sections.  Cabbage is planted along the front.  The melons will be trellised to grow up instead of along the ground.

 

See, this cantaloupe already has a flower!

This is the tomato, bell pepper bed (with some basil).  Some are still seedlings.

Our blueberry bush has flowers all over it! 

Our little Satsuma mandarin also has tiny flower buds.

That is it so far.  I will post pictures when everything really gets growing, and I hope to keep track of how much we produce this spring/summer season and again in the fall/winter season to see which crops do better when.  I'll keep you posted.

Do you have a garden?  What do you grow?  Any tips?