Very nice Will!!

These are about a week or a little more old. I'll take some new ones this weekend after I till the weeds in again.

Heirloom sweet corn. 6 total rows. The first 4 rows from the right of the frame are about 2 1/2 weeks older than the last two rows.


The row just to the right of the sprinkler is Okra...another heirloom. To the left of the Okra begins the tobacco patch. The first plants seen are about 3 weeks behind the taller plants to their left. It is a mixed bed of an ancient rustica, Walker broadleaf, CT broadleaf, and an oriental variety called Bafra. As far as the rustica goes, interesting, at least to me, is the growth habit of this plant. It grows much like a bush, and it's nicotine content is very high. For reference, typical cigar tobacco is roughly 2-5% nicotine content depending on the fermenting processes used, and the rustica is somewhere between 5-9%. Strong, strong, stuff. Might be fun. Or not. We'll see.


In the foreground here are 4 pepper plants. From the left - green sweet peppers / red-yellow sweet peppers / green sweet peppers.....just behind them and not seen well is a jalapeno and a habanero. They all appear to be doing very well and are putting on peppers to beat the band. Behind and just to the left of the peppers, the small green twiggy like things are carrots, 2 varieties, 4 rows. I'm disappointed in them, but it is most likely due to poor planting and watering on my part. Lesson learned. The tee-pee thing is green beans....as it the re-purposed windmill tower. The beans were all planted at 2 week intervals around the "trellises" over an 8 week period. Should have beans well into the summer/fall.


Beyond the carrots and to the left of the beans are 3 tomato plants. 1 early producer hybrid, 1 heirloom grape tomato, 1 heirloom large tomato. The potatoes are behind the tomatos and the peas are to the left of them. Both of these are gone now, potatoes in the basement and the peas have all been eaten. I was very disappointed in the production of the peas, and one of the varieties of potato that I planted. Peas were most likely my fault....potatoes not so much.