raised bed with onions 
tomatoes are starting to ripen 
strawberries, beans, and a comfrey that is getting too big 
2 tomato plants, still pretty small, beans, and a few melons 
4 raised beds
Garden Update – May 23, 2019
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Vegetable Garden Update May 3, 2019
snap peas 
comfrey 
raised bed 
raised bed
Sugar snap peas are producing lots of pods, but are also getting eaten by a caterpillars that I haven’t found. I’m debating if I should spray them with BT or now. The comfrey plants are getting huge. Too big for my small raised beds, so I need to make a decision about where to relocate them. My tomatoes, peppers, beans, cantaloupe, and watermelon are all doing OK, but don’t seem to be growing fast.
Snap Peas and Tiny Fruits – April 22, 2019
Plants are growing at a very fast pace right now. I finally have some sugar snap peas to harvest, but just a handful so far. And 2 strawberries! They were delicious. Aiden raced me out to the garden to pick snap peas, he loves them!
Sugar Snap Pea 
Aiden Enthusiastically Picks Fresh Snap Peas 
My 6 raised beds 
Potato plants in stack of tires 
Comfrey Flowers 
Onions are getting fat 
A few tomatoes are forming 
More tomatoes 
Blackberry blooms 
Blackberry blooms 
A few peaches have formed 
More plackberry flowers 
More peaches
Pomegranate Tree Replaced, Mulched Beds 4/20/2019
The Pomegranate Tree I planted last fall didn’t bud or leaf out this spring, so I called Stark Bro’s and they shipped me a new one with zero hassle! (This was tree 16 shown here) It was delivered by FedEx today, so I replaced it.
I also picked up one more pepper plant at the CCMGA Plant Sale this morning, along with a few flowers and a thyme plant. After these were planted, I mulched the beds with leaves. I still left areas un-mulched where I have seeds planted.
Peppers, More Tomatoes, Cucumbers, Melons, and More Planted 4/5/2019
I picked up some pepper plants and another tomato plant from McKinney Feed and Seed yesterday, and planted them today, along with some lime beans and bush beans. Sometime last week, I planted cucumbers, cantaloupe, and watermelon. I took pictures of my new trees also.
Mango Pawpaw 
Sunflower Pawpaw 
Wonderful Pomegranate 
Pennsylvania Golden PawPaw 
Sweet Treat Pluerry 
Cherry w/ 4 grafts 
Santa Rosa Plum 
Fuyu Japanese Persimmon 
AU Roadside Plum 
Texas Redbud 
Tisdale Apricot 
Asian Pear w/ 4 grafts 
Morris Plum 
Thornless Honeylocust 
Moorpark Apricot 
Black Locust 
Blackberries 
Burbank July Elberta Peach 
Methley Plum 
Blackberries 
Kentucky Coffeetree (it looks dead!) 
Belle of Georgia Peach 
3 Blackberries 
2 Blackberries 
Raised Bed 1 
Raised Bed 2 
Redbud 
Raised Bed 3 
Raised Bed 4 
Raised Bed 5 
Raised Bed 6 
Irish Potatoes 
Supersweet 100 Tomato 
Sweet Spot Pepper 
All 6 Raised Beds 
Pepper, Tomato, Snap Peas, Brussles 
Lima Bean 
Big Bertha Sweet Bell Pepper 
Lima Beans Planted Here 
Tam Mild Jalapeno Pepper 
Bush Beans Planted Here 
Bean Garden Bush Beans
Herbs Planted 3/21/2019
Aiden and I planted some Sweet Basil, Lemon Basil, Oregano, and Pollinator Herb mixture.
Tomatoes Planted 3/8/2019
I planted 2 tomato plants today, even though it is a little early according to local vegetable garden planting calendars. I’m hoping to get the grown nice and tall before the summer heat sets in this year. This is the first year to use the Walls o Water / Season Starter covers. They should protect the plants from any low temperatures we have from here on out (I hope!)
Two tomato plants inside Season Extenders
Happy tomato plant inside a wall-o-water
Three New Raised Beds Created 3/2019
With the help from a den of Cub Scouts, we set up 3 new raised beds. They are 4′ x 4′ and made out of treated 2×12 lumber. I filled them with planting mix from Texas Pure, which contains 50% compost, 25% sand and 25% top soil/loam.
Three new raised beds are in the foreground 
Visual divider to show bed in square foot sections 
New soil mix was added to existing bed 
New soil mix was added to existing bed 
New soil mix was added to existing bed
Everything Survived the 17 Degree Low Temperature
All of the vegetable plants made it through the recent low temperatures. This morning just before sunup, it got down to 17.6 degrees F. I didn’t cover anything up, and the plants look like they are all OK this morning. I was most worried about the sugar snap peas that just started popping up from the ground, but they look completely unharmed. Strawberries look completely unharmed. Onions look OK. Brussels and broccoli did get some damage, but they should survive.
