Update On The Gardens

I hope you all had a great Memorial Day weekend...we had beautiful weather here in Iowa! We had a nice, quiet weekend here at home with Cody, Travis, and Kelsey....was nice to have everyone here for a long weekend!

We've definitely been busy around here the past few weeks in the garden. Since Memorial weekend was so nice, we got a good bit planted. We put in cucumbers (both for fresh eating and pickling), more radishes. The green beans and the lima beans were planted. Kevin planted a few ground cherries and the celery. I got in more garlic, hot peppers (jalapeno, ancho, Anaheim, cayenne, and habanero) and some bell peppers, although the bells aren't looking too good yet.

We've also been eating a ton of asparagus, and I made a huge rhubarb strawberry crumble for supper on Sunday night...yum!!

Thought I'd post a few pics of how the garden looks after the weekend...as Kevin says, as soon as we finish hoeing and weeding, we quick take some pics while it looks nice....it definitely doesn't look this way all the time  lol :)

This one shows the potatoes, broccoli, and cauliflower. There's a new rhubarb patch, horseradish, and chives to the left of the cauliflower (out of the picture).

This picture is of the "big garden"...I think it's 75' x 75'. On the far left (out of this picture) are two 75' foot rows of asparagus, green and lima beans (newly planted), garlic and more radishes (newly planted), and hot/green bell peppers. This shows a small portion of the tomatoes we have in plus the cabbage and onions.

Closest garden has lettuce, garlic, kale, brussel sprouts, more onions, carrots, beets, spinach, and 4 tomatoes that we planted way back in April....and 2 of them have on blooms finally :)  The farther small garden patch has peas, kohlrabi, and newly planted radishes. In the black tubs on each end, I have my herb garden....really small this year, but if it turns into anything, maybe I'll convince Kevin to till me up a big patch for next year :)

I also came across a canning inventory sheet on http://www.sbcanning.com/  (fabulous website), and I thought I'd share it with you. I'm going to try to remember to record everything I can and freeze this year just to see exactly how much we do. I did this one other year a long time ago, and I think I used something like 650+ canning lids and forgot to count how many freezer bags we went through. Anyway...here's the link for the inventory sheet:

Canning Inventory Sheet