Green Thumb?

As you know, we put in raised beds for the garden this year so it would be more likely I have a garden instead of a weed patch crowding out the garden.  It seems to be successful, so far.  We planted carrots, green beans, okra, corn, cucumbers and peas.  Everything is coming up and going for gusto, except the carrots.  My green beans, cucumbers and peas are blooming.


green beans



peas

Impressive, eh?

Whenever it was we built the chicken coop, several years ago anyways, we planted a raspberry bush or two behind it.  They grew, but we didn't much tend to the bushes.  Then the goats pretty much decimated them one summer.  Now they are bushy and lovely and have spread to the side of the chicken coop as well.  This year there's even tiny little immature berries on them right now.  Hopefully we get a handful or two.

on the side of the chicken coop

 We've penned off the side of the coop because that is where the broiler chickens are at the moment and we don't want them eating the bushes....


future raspberries

I also planted a rhubarb and a strawberry plant in a raised bed in front of the house.  The rhubarb is growing like mad...even tho they have me some weeds in the rhubarb pot.  The strawberry looks like a wilted, half dead husk of it's former self.  There still is some hope, as long as I don't forget about it!