Garden Status

I am not sure if I have mentioned this before, unless I talked with you in person, but Jake ordered a lot of seeds this past winter for our garden.  Up to this point, he had only ever had tomatoes, jalapeños, and bell peppers growing.  As of Saturday, our back yard is now 3/5 vegetable garden.  Poor Slate, I foretell a lot of scoldings.  

An attempt at combining 2 pics to show all our veggies...mostly...because I could : )

Jake's orchard is kind of camouflaged but he has 2 apples and 2 pears along the back fence, 2 peaches in the middle of the spinach and peas (an accident), one cherry by the jalapeños and another cherry in the front yard.  Our pineapple plant is out front, still growing, and our basil and cilantro are inside dying.  I MAY have over watered them…  He also brought an ice cream container home from Gpa Joe full of alfalfa and you can see where our test plot is.  Dad thinks the alfalfa is to old and that it might not sprout.  Guess we will see.

We set up drip irrigation to every plant in the 4 rows by Jake (first picture) as well as the trees and then all the other crops have netafim between the rows.  His gardening is pretty hands off from what I am used to… aka what I would have been used to had I ever had a garden before. : )  I am excited to start harvesting!