My Utah Garden 2011

This is my second post today for my garden. I felt like the good and bad could not be on the same post.
So besides the nightmare. I am crossing my fingers we don't lose anything. I have done everything beside sing to it to help it along.

I planted 25 tomato plants, 13 peppers plants, 1 egg plant, 8 cucumbers, 1 watermelon, 1 cantaloupe, small row of Swiss chard, 3 small rows of corn, 3 small rows of beats, 4 pole beans, 2 zucchini, 1 yellow squash, 4x4 box of peas, 2x4 box of carrots and a 4x4 box of white onions.  I also have 2 4x4 boxes of  established raspberries, 1 4x4 box that has asparagus growing in it (this will be year 3).  I also have two 4x4 boxes of strawberries. That is all in my back yard. I have a huge rhubarb plant, a huge bed of strawberries and 7 fruit trees in my front yard.  I also have random herbs planted all over the place. 

Matt finished my new raised bed. The tall supports down the center are for my grapes and blackberries.

My peas are looking good! My kids favorite.

 

All my pepper plants look really good. I planted 3 yolo wonder green bells ( 2 out of the three have peppers on them already), I also planted two banana peppers , 6 jalapeno (I want to can them this year) and 2 red bell peppers.

This is one of my banana peppers. I have never had peppers this early.

This is the average size of my tomato plants. I have a few that are much bigger, but not as healthy.

  

My front bed is so full of strawberries. They look better this year than they ever have. I thinned them out so much last year I was worried I would not get much. It made them thicker and bigger.  I hear Strawberries are really hard to grow in Utah, but I tried to kill these before I decided to baby them.

Picture before I removed my covers.

I bought most all my plants about 7 weeks ago. I have kept them in my wagon in my garage and pulled them in and out everyday if the weather permitted. I got all excited and planted them almost 2 weeks ago. I was so glad I missed the big hail storm but then it got all rainy and cold. That first night I could not sleep and worried all my work and money was outside freezing. So the next night I came up with 33...Yes 33 buckets, flower pots and garbage cans. I even used my kids Easter buckets.  I have gone out and covered everything without a cage or support most every night since. I go back out in the morning and uncover them.  I covered my caged supports with a big furniture cover. I read that the tender plants will survive in the cooler temperatures but anything below 50 they put all their energy into just staying alive. In other words they won't grow much.  I am hoping I will have a record produce garden this year. A big come back from not growing one last year.