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2021 Season

Various vegeables harvested recently

Spring Crops That Survived Through the Summer and Into Fall

Right now I still have broccoli and kale which were both planted in the spring still producing leaves and broccoli florets. These are normally planted in the fall, but this is one of those years that I decided to plant them early in the spring to see if they would produce more. Broccoli on the hand was planted to last through the hot summer months while kale just happened to survive this long with some proper care. I did plant some pea seeds a couple of weeks ago and I hope that they will sprout soon. This is the only fall crop I have planted for this year.

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Both red and yellow onions harvested

Following Onions Comes Eggplant and Broccoli Harvesting

It is now prime harvesting time with onions picked out of the totes and now broccoli, eggplants, more tomatoes, and beans are ready. At this moment I probably have picked every vegetable from the garden except for pumpkins which I picked much later and melons that will also come later in the season. I also started picking the second row of corn which is a all white type of corn. They looked very weird, but were actually quite delicious and didn’t taste that much different from any other corn I have grown.

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Just some corn from the first harvest of 2021

Zucchini, Cucumbers, and Even Corn Harvested

Now it is harvest time with several plants that are ripening with many vegetables for hopefully a good continuous harvest. I hope that these plants continue to grow and thrive as long as the weather is good they should produce a good crop for the season. Corn will eventually end much sooner than the rest of my garden, but I am going to enjoy whatever corn is picked. There are some others that are almost ready to pick such as tomatoes and possibly an eggplant real soon. I also have many pepper plants with peppers growing on them and they should start being harvested as well.

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Two cucumbers

Many Vegetable Harvest are on The Way This Year

Right now there are many harvests that are going to be coming very soon now that most of my plants are producing flowers and fruit. I have so far been picking mostly my strawberries and kale. My strawberries are all done for the season and my kale continues to grow and as long as it produces more leaves I will harvest them. Some of the plants started to go to seed, but I was able to catch it time and cut off the bolting part of the plant. Let’s get into what I will be picking in the near future from my garden.

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three large strawberries in my hand.

May: The Busiest Month of the Garden Season

May is probably one of the busiest months of the garden season because this is when most of your plants are transplanted, seeds are sown directly into the garden soil, the rest of the garden is being tilled, and even strawberries are starting to turn red and ripening for a June harvest. Right now all I have left to put into the garden are my pepper plants, eggplant, and hopefully some melon seeds into the soil as long as there is still some room after my transplants are settled into the ground.

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Spinach plant now added to the garden.

Waiting the Right Amount of Time to Transplant Spinach and Kale

April is one of the busiest of months during the springtime where I like to transplant my cold weather plants into the garden and into totes. I always place my onion bulbs in totes and that is what I have been doing for years. At the moment not all my totes have onions and I have only planted a few red onions into three totes so far. I will fill up the totes with enough onions by sometime this week at the latest.

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Using Coconut Husk Pellets for Planting Summer Seed Crop

I tried planting seeds into coconut husks last season, but they didn’t seem to work that well. This was probably due to using old husk pellets that I had for about five years. This year I bought brand new pellets and they expanded like they are supposed to and have planted a variety of summer crop seeds into all 72 plant cells. This particular tray is able to water the soil and seeds automatically with the proper amount of moisture per cell.

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PVC Pipe Sections for Spinach

Spinach, Lettuce, and Kale Getting Ahead for the Spring

It is now 2021 and it is that time of the season when I start planting seeds for the springtime temperatures that will arrive in a couple of months. In the meantime I can get them started in pots so once warmer temperatures are here they will be ready to be transported into the garden. This year I decided to stick to a few seeds of spinach, lettuce, and kale.

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