Summer's getting near

Everything's growing and some more are beginning to bloom, like the pumpkin. The peas have already begun producing and are getting plumper and I have a couple small green tomatoes. The blueberries and strawberries are doing great.

I'm also very excited that my canary bird vine is blooming.

I do, however have a couple problems. Problem 1 is some cat using the raised beds as litter boxes. Pretty sure it caused the death of my only two cucumbers. This sent me over the edge. I already don't like cats. I have put sticks in the open spaces it is using in an attempt to deter it. Hope it works!

Problem 2 is either caterpillars or beetles. Haven't been able to quite determine which, but I'm leaning towards beetles. They are eating my artichokes, beans, and have ever so lightly touched my potatoes. I am in process of creating a plan of attack.

Replacements

I planted five of my ten peanuts today in place of my pollinator watermelon seedlings. They should be fine between my bush peas and potatoes.

Wish me luck!

Expanding

More tomatoes courtesy of my grandma!

Thinking of replacing my watermelon plot with some peanuts.

My mom brought me a packet of large peanut seeds with plaster. I had never really paid that much attention to peanut plants, but they seem like an interesting plant. However, they take 130-150 days and need very warm temperarures so I will only plant half the packet. But that should yield about 250 peanuts!

First Harvest!

If you can really call it that. (:

Growing

Some good and some bad. Let's do the bad first...

I finally had hot enough weather and enough seedlings to plant my watermelons. I was able to germinate 4 out of 6 pollinator seeds and 2 out of 6 "regular" ones. Not as great as I would have hoped for, and I was very glad to have planted so many seeds. At the time I planted the 12 seeds I had a feeling I should, even though it may seem insane for the small patch of garden I had for watermelons. (: I planted them and watered with care and they did very well for the first 5 days getting taller, more leaves were coming.... then BAM! I went out to check on them on the 6th day and found this: