AngelsGarden's Blog

Progress!!!
Apr 12, 2007 | 8:19 AM PST
Tags: veggies , Strawberries , potatoes

We have got sooooooo much done in the last week.  The vegetable garden is much closer to being...well you can't really say done, but just about everything is planted.  The only things left to be planted are the Eggplant, (which I think I will wait another week for it to warm up just a little more at night) and the Melons (cantaloupe and Chantarais melon). 

The strawberries are doing great too.  Berries are ripening just about every day.  The only problem is we haven't been able to enjoy them because the birds keep eating half of each berry.  Yesterday I put some bird netting over them that I folded in half.  I hope that does the trip and keeps them out.

Potatoes are doing awsome, at least from all appearances  that is.  They are plenty tall and the flowers are starting to open as of a couple of days ago.  The flowers on the white potatoes are a white backround with just a slight touch of lavender on each petal and a yellow center.  The red potatoes have a medium purple flower with a yellow center.  I haven't seen any pollinators around them though and I am not sure if they even need it.  I am excited to dig into the mulch and see whats there but I really want to wait until they get bigger until we dig them all out.  So I will try to exercise some self control and wait until the plants start to die back to take a peek.  I have planted white, red and purple.