Welcome to my Blog

Hi, my name is Suanne and I am writing this blog to share some of the tips and recipes I have learned or created with our backyard garden. The garden itself is actually my husband John's but we have had a garden for over 25 years so I have picked up some garden knowledge along the way. We live in Austin, Texas so we are blessed with a year long growing season. We always have something to eat from the garden and this pretty much dictates what we eat. All of our meals are planned around what happens to be growing at the time. One of the biggest challenges is what I like to call crop maintenance. What to do with all of the vegetables? Beyond sharing with the neighbors and friends I am always trying creative approaches to preparing the bounty. So the blog seemed like a good way to both keep track of and share my recipes.

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Spring garden 2011 is now planted



We are trying a couple of new things this year. First - we planted corn - two different varieties and about 2 weeks apart. We planted right about the first of March.





Second we decided to grow pole peans instead of bush beans. Well I decided because I am sick of bending over to pick beans and John decided to humor me. So we picked some bamboo from our niece's back yard and created some teepee like structures for the bean to climb up. John nearly slice his arm off while cutting the bamboo so this better be worth it.

Finally we scored some potatoes from Green Corn and even
though we planted way past the recommended time for planting we decided to try anyway. Notice how John dug trenches - the theory is that as the leaves start growing you continue to take dirt and cover as they grow. We will see how it turns out. May not work at all because of the late planting.





We also found a new garden trellis for the cucumbers. Now we have a trellis both both winter squash which you can grow in the spring and fall as well as cucumbers.


The tomatoes are also doing well as you can see some over almost 2 feet tall at the end of march. No tomatoes yet but lots of blossoms.