June Garden

As of the beginning of June everything has been planted/transplanted in our garden and so far so good!  I've overcome 2 weeks of bug invasion (cutworms, inch worms, earwigs, and slugs) by hand picking and slaughtering the beasts myself.  Picture an image of me out at 10-11pm with a flashlight carefully inspecting each and every plant... fun stuff.  Now I'm just waiting for our batch of cabbage loopers for me to destroy... we got hit pretty heavy with them last year.  Despite the bugs, our garden is glorious and beautiful (in my eyes).

Curious to see what our garden looks like in June?  Swell!  You know you had no choice in the matter, right?

Front of house... what the passersby see

Lettuce in the flower box next to front door

4x8 raised bed of Broccoli and Cabbage.  2 plants died, but I'm still happy!

4x8 raised bed full of 21 tomatoes- heirlooms and beefsteak. 

4x8 raised bed of 12 tomato plants and 12 pepper plants (I am still trying to find more room for 6 more pepper starters I have)

4x8 raised bed of 10 squash (summer & zucchini), 1 cucumber and 9 blue corn

4x4 potato bin full of, you guessed it, potatoes!

In the front we have finally added landscaping consisting of all our herbs and more.  3 basil, 2 lavender, 2 sage, 5 thyme, 1 mint,  2 chives, 2 oregano, 6 kale, 3 swiss chard,  and 2 rhubarb

Front 4x8 raised bed with 8 Broccoli and hundred (hopefully!) carrots

I pruned these raspberries to a foot high and now they almost cover the window!

Garlic and Onions

2 Blueberry bushes... sadly the blooms keep mysteriously shriveling up so pretty sure we will not be getting any blueberries :(

5 strawberries and 1 blackberry.  Had to pinch of the blooms this first year, but hopefully we'll be rolling in the berries next year

A long row of sweet corn

Our tiny 2x3 strawberry patch where we got about a dozen super sweet juicy strawberries this year.

It's small but growing steadily.  You can't expect much from a June Wisconsin garden, but thanks to seed starting in our basement we are ahead of the game this year. 

How are your gardens coming along?