May 2020 Homestead Garden
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In the Homestead Garden ~ May 2020

BySamantha

Another year of gardening has begun! Well, I guess it has been going for a while, this is just the first chance I’ve had to write about it and share a garden photo tour.

What a crazy year this has been so far! Let me start by first saying that I feel so very lucky and grateful that we have our large yard/small property to work on during this time of self-isolation. I have been off work since March and been blessed to not get sick, so consequently I have been working a ton in our garden. This is the first year since we moved here 7 years ago that we’ve had the whole garden space utilized! Crazy right?!?!

If you would like to see our garden the first couple of years when it was first being built you can check out those garden tours HERE and HERE(this is on my old blog 🙂

This is the gate to enter our garden.
Stepping into the garden and looking from your left, to right.
In this first row we have cucumbers planted as well as sunflowers that have not yet sprouted.
Next to that, on the left side of the bright pink, is a row containing peppers and beans (again, not sprouted). On the left is a row of indeterminate (climbing) tomatoes with garlic planted on each side.
Next, we have 4 quadrants surrounding a central climbing trellis. In 2 of the 4 quadrants we have interplantings of determinate tomatoes (non-climbing) marigolds, some butter lettuce, and cosmos. I’m working on my potager garden design skills 😉
On the other side of the climbing trellis, we have some sweet potato vines in the bottom left corner, this is an experiment this year(we will call that bottom left quadrant #3) and in the 4th quadrant (#4) we have some patty pan squash and some nasturtiums.
  • Corn, beans and cucumbers
  • celery, leeks, cabbage
  • beets, shallots, lettuce, spinach
  • Peas and carrots 🙂
  • Raised Bed #1
  • Raised Bed #2
  • Raised Bed #3

Above, we have the raised beds on the far side of the garden which, starting with #1 on the left, are planted with strawberries, spinach and squash. Raised bed #2 has walla walla onions, head lettuce, pac choi, leaf lettuce, and kohlrabi.

There are interplantings of the onions between each row of lettuce etc. this is in line with companion planting suggestions. And bed #3 is full of broccoli interplanted with more onions and some beets.

Strawberries!!
You can see on the far side of the raised beds, a dark and light patch of dirt, that is our potato patch!
  • Spinach!
  • lettuce and kohlrabi
  • beautiful Pac choi
  • head lettuce
  • Broccoli
  • onions and some beets with the broccoli
  • new bed on the right
  • new raised bed in bottom right corner
Left photo is looking straight from the entry gate and right photo is standing at the back fence facing the entry gate. Trying our hand at building some Hugelkulter beds and the tops planted in green manures and pollinator flower mixes.

I hope you have enjoyed my first garden tour of 2020. I have some plans already on how to make the next month’s even better!

Another year of gardening has begun! Check out our May garden tour of the year 2020. All sorts of vegetables, some flowers.This years garden will be epic!

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