Backyard Garden

The newest addition to the gardens....

We have been getting the compost turned, giving the raised beds some extra composted manure and getting everything ready for the seedlings to go out. Hopefully this weekend we will have everything in the backyard garden and will only have the big garden left to work on. Our lettuces are ready, so our first salad from the garden is coming shortly...the kale and spinach have taken a beating though from the squirrels, for some reason they want to dig them up. I added a lovely aluminum pie plate on a stick to scare them a bit and it works until the plate gets free. I hate having what looks like junk hanging in my garden, but I also don't want the groundhog eating my lettuce and the squirrels digging up my other greens! The seedlings are holding on even though I have had some dampening off and the garlic spray seems to be helping some of them. I was glad that we put in grow lights for them because it has been so cloudy and rainy for the past couple weeks, although you can tell we had s

 My seedlings have some dampening off this year which is a real bummer. I sprayed them with a garlic spray and some are coming back and some will not make it regardless. So I may nee another trip tot he nursery before I am done with the garden. My tomatoes are holding on, but the cabbage, basil, cilantro, and some of the flowers were hit hard.  Lilac! so beautiful and covered too bad it's all raining during the full bloom... Everything keeps plodding on even though we have not seen the sun for a whole day in well over a week (Last Saturday afternoon with intermittent thunder showers was the best we can hope for apparently) I think that when the sun finally comes out it will be in true Maine fashion and we will be in the midst of  summer.

Seedlings coming up... Apples from seed, not sure what we are actually going to do with them... Lettuce, Kale, Spinach all coming up nicely despite cool temps... Funny little fairy garden under the Japanese Maple is already flowering... It won't be long until the Lilac blooms, it is covered with buds!