Garden update June 27

Hi dere, and welcome to da garden, eh!
This is just an update on how my garden is doing. I took the pictures yestersay evening, after the rain stopped and the sky cleared out enough for the sun to shine through.

This is a couple of big pots that were given to me by a friend who didn't have a use for them. I thought I'd try growing some beans in them to see how it works. I planted 2 year old bush type yellow wax bean seeds in them. These are an heirloom variety called Cherokee wax. Only about half of them sprouted. Normally I would blame the seeds, but it's been so wet this year that new bean seeds have been failing to sprout. I moved all the sprouts to the one pot and replanted the other yesterday. We'll see how that goes.

This is the end of my row of Yukon Gold potatoes. They've been growing really well, I need to start hilling them. Behind them is my 3 rows of popcorn. Only a couple of those seeds didn't come up, so I'm pretty happy with them. I planted them about 3 weeks ago or so, so they're doing pretty well despite the less than ideal growing conditions lately, cool and rainy days. Behind them is the new raised bed with the bush type green beans. Those are the only beans that I planted that almost all came up the first time. Perhaps it was because of better drainage of the raised bed, but I don't really know.

This is the new compost pile, ant the end of the new raised bed. It gets all the potato and carrot peelings, the coffee grounds, and whatever else seems like a good idea to put in there. I just threw in my pea plants from the greenhouse. They were done blooming and starting to die back.

The carrot patch in the older raised bed. It needs to be thinned out soon...

This is something I forgot about in the last garden post. This is my friend's bean trellis for the dry beans she grows every year. She grows an heirloom pole variety called Hidatsa shield beans. These are left to dry on the vines and picked before it snows, usually. The Hidatsa beans had poor germination the first time also and had to be replanted.
There's also a couple of zucchini squash plants there, and another zucchini in the raised bed that's full of dill plants this year. Dill is one of those plants that if you let it go to seed, you never have to plant it again. You usually have to pull it out of all the places that you don't want it. It can spread it's seeds fairly far. These plants are all from seeds from last year's plants.

The corn patch. We grow hard corn, as I mentioned in my last garden post, not sweet corn. These should average about 10-12 feet tall if they doo as well as they have in past years. I also have 3 hills of squash in with the corn, and I planted a few Hidatsa beans by the corn stalks on the edge of the patch. They'll climb up the corn stalks as they grow.
Behind them in the raised bed are my red onions, and a couple of borage plants that found their way there from seeds from last year's borage.

Well ,that's pretty much it for this garden update. I hope you enjoyed the pictures!

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