Potato Plants, A Puppy, Spinach, Onions and Flowers

April 23, 2009

It's Almost Time

We uploaded a few pictures for everyone to see our seed progress. Also, Heartland Nursery looks like they are full of plants and flowers again. We will be visiting them soon.

Here are the pics.

Preparing the Garden and Herb Garden

Monday March 16, 2009
Well, it is that time of year. We purchased 1 yard of compost/top soil from Randy's Lakeview Nursery on Friday and went back for another yard on Monday and we were told that they were unable to sell it because it was too wet. So we traveled out to American Topsoil and picked up a yard and a 1/2 (their bucket was a little more full than Randy's) for $10 more. Jill went to tilling on Monday afternoon, and sadly, cut the cable line ;0(

Sometimes it good to have no cable and no access to the internet.

Anyway, we planted potatoes and onions.

The new herb garden we added is coming along nicely. We still need to put up edging to keep the soil from washing away, but we will do that on Friday. Here are a few pics that might show the scope of our amazing garden.

560 sq ft main garden --------105 sq ft herb garden

Seeds That Have Been Planted So Far

Alright, here is the list of seeds that we planted. Mostly tomato seeds and they are all heirlooms. We have others ordered from Park Seeds and Henry Fields, but are still waiting.

Heirlooms from TomatoFest that received a place to grow.
Argentina
Aussie
Black Zebra
Blue Ridge Mountain
Bull's Heart
Church
Cuostralee
Church (personal favorite)
Grandfather Ashlock
Carol Chyko's Big Paste
Dixie Golden Giant
Giant 11
Giant Belgium
Giant Oxheart
Green Giant
Ultimate Giant

Don't all of those sound just amazingly strange and beautiful? Well, the seeds are planted and now we are closely watching for that first sprig of green to pop through the soil.
Hope you have a wonderful day and of course we planted way too many of these so there might be a few plants to give away.

Seeds and the Garden

We planted seeds on Friday. We are starting Tomatoes from seed. It should be a very interesting year in our garden. Right now we have 24 different varieties of heirlooms planted. Many of those plants will be given away because we are also planting regular tomato plants. Here we are planting the seeds and prepping the garden to be planted in early May.

August 10 Harvest Report

Giant Belgiums- 22, Black Brandwhine-16, Old German-8, Pink Oxheart-23, Red Brandywhine-7, Jetstar-9, Valencia-13, Celebrity-19, 1st Lady-24, Whopper-26, Jet Setter-13, Better Boy-12
For a wonderful total of 192 Tomatoes!!!
240 Sweet Baby Girl
166 Yellow Pear

Other veggies of note-
47 Okra
18 Squash

We wonder if Toby Tobin or Paul Harvey would be impressed with our small but bountiful effort? We feel very blessed and still continue to enjoy our garden. What a blessing.

Pickles Anyone?

It started this week at the Vickers household...canning. Yes, by August we are already canning. With two huge bumper crops of cucs, we just had to try it. So we are canning dill and sweet pickles. Dill pickles are rather easy, it's the sweet pickles that will take several weeks. With over 80 large and small cucs picked already, it might be a busy fall ;0)

July 25th Harvest Report

Crop Report- 1:31 pm, July 25, 2008

Wheat- $8.18-----Corn-$5.98-----Soybeans- $13.88-------Tomato prices are drastically down today due to one of the largest backyard harvest reports in history!!!!

Giant Belgium- 2, Black Brandywhine- 1, Pink Oxheart- 2, Jetstar-3, Celebrity-5, 1st Lady-4, Whopper-4, Jetsetter-4, Better Boy-3

Total Tom Harvest as of Today- 74!

Sweet Baby Girl Cherry- 25, Yellow Pear-9, Cucumbers-34, Red Onion- 5, Jalepeno-3, Ancho-1, Squash-3, Zuccinni-3, Okra-4

Oh yeah, thanks for the help Rheau!