We harvested our first melon today. It tasted great. We have been harvesting a lot of cucumbers and tomatoes.
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Tomatoes and Peppers – March 27, 2021
I’m several weeks behind and didn’t even have time to plant the onions I bought, but today I did manage to get the raised beds cleared out and a few things planted. I used my tiny chainsaw on the monster okra plants, which worked great.
3 new tomato plants in bed 4 
2 pepper plants in bed 5 
Early Girl Tomato 
Super Fantastic Tomato 
Porter Tomato 
Tam Mild Jalapeno 
Mammoth Jalapeno
No Frost Damage – April 15, 2020
Last week was sunny with the temperature in the 90’s, and 2 days ago a strong cold front came in and this morning at 6:45 am, we got down to 32.0F for a bit.
March 16, 2020 – Greening Up Status
It’s was warm most of last week and has rained all this week. Lots of new green growth in the garden. Most of the fruit trees are flowering.
6 raised beds 
1: peas 
2: onion, radish, carrot, turnip 
3: tomato 
view inside the season extender at a tomato plant 
4: broccoli that has bolted 
5: lettuce, mustard, pea 
6: tomato 
redbud tree 
redbud tree 
blackberries 
buds on a blackberry bush 
Methley Plum tree 
plum tree flowers 
Burbank Peach tree 
peach tree flowers 
Morris Plum Tree 
Tisdale Apricot tree 
apricot flowers 
Dixieland Peach Tree 
peach flowers 
4-in-1 Asian Pear tree 
Santa Rosa Plum 
Sweet Treat Pluerry 
4-in-1 Apple Tree 
2-in-1 Apple Tree
February 28, 2020 – Tomato Plants Transplanted
We are 2 weeks from the average last frost date, but the weather forecast looks like we will be safe so I planted 6 tomatoes. I didn’t have enough of the season starters (aka walls of water) to cover all of the plants, and one did break in the high winds that we had on Saturday.
raised bed 1 w/ peas https://gallistead.com/2020/01/23/onion-and-peas-planted-january-23-2020/ 
raised bed 2 with onion, radish, carrot, and turnips https://gallistead.com/2020/02/08/february-8-2020-planted-carrot-turnip-lettuce-and-more-peas/ 
raised bed 3 with 3 tomato plants in season starters https://amzn.to/2TrX7K8 
raised bed 6 with 3 tomato plants 
tomato plant broke off in the high winds 
raised bed 5 with lettuce, mustard, and peas https://gallistead.com/2020/02/08/february-8-2020-planted-carrot-turnip-lettuce-and-more-peas/ 
6 raised beds
Potatoes and Onion Harvested, Okra and Cowpeas Planted – June 2, 2019
Garden Update – May 23, 2019
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
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
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
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