Garden is almost planted!

Mark is gone for two weeks in London, so I was left planting the last few varietals of herbs and cleaning up our hydroponic bed before it got too warm. I was a little disappointed on Wednesday when I was out at the farm that none of the thyme was coming up, so I counted it as a loss. As much as we use thyme, I knew we were going to have to purchase some. I made a quick stop at Home Depot since both markets I visited and a nursery was out and selected some lemon thyme and regular thyme. I could just smell lemon thyme all day. I cant wait for some summer chicken with some of that lemon thyme!
The garden had plenty of time for weeds this week - lots of rain and lots of quick sunlight. It helped many of our plants grow, but darn those weeds. Four and a half hours later, I finally could tell what I had in each bed. Cleaning out on of the herb beds I started to smell thyme. Looking down in my hand I realized I pulled up a small amount of thyme - of course, after I purchase more, the thyme is actually growing now and has re sprouted in the same spot we planted it last year. We will have plenty of thyme this year.
Garden looks good and I cant wait to post some pictures (when Mark returns with the camera). Here is what we are looking at now:
Tomatoes - 25 plants and about 7-8 varieties
Corn - silver queen
Peppers - from hot to sweet we have a ton of them
okra
cucumbers
green beans
fennel
carrots
radishes
watermelon
cantaloupe
onions
shallots
zucchini
lettuce
broccoli
strawberries
basil
cilantro
parsley
thyme
oregano
rosemary
and if my little brother has his way, he will be planting potatoes this week.

One of these days I will keep up with this... an update!

This summer we continue to work at my parents house most weekends to prepare our garden. When we say garden, most of our friends think a few plants and while that would be nice, we love to get ourselves into some type of huge growing experience. It would be much nicer if it were closer to home, however, its nice to make ourselves get out of the city once a week. We now have planted peppers, tomatoes, squash, cucumbers, bunch beans, cilantro, parsley, radish, carrots, catnip, basil, watermelon, cantaloupe with corn and some other varieties going in later this week. The plants we havent seen growth from as we hoped: onions, chives, fennel, strawberries. Some will be replanted, others will have to just wait until next year.

We have been cooking like crazy this year. I will start posting pics and some short descriptions, since detailing all of the parts would take forever. If you want a recipe or know how we did something, just ask. I will be happy to post.

For now - pics of the garden last year!

Sylvester the cat loves to help Mark in the garden - he also had to get his photo taken!