Garden Update

Here's a rundown of what we've got growing in our garden:

1. Tomatoes (three different varieties)
2. Mixed salad greens
3. Broccoli
4. Green beans
5. Ancho and jalapeno peppers
6. Shallots
7. Radishes
8. Onions and leeks from seed (they're not doing well so I may plant something else in that spot)
9. Spinach
10. A row of red onions
11. Three different kinds of tomatoes
12. Egg plant
13. Watermelon
14. Fingerling and red potatoes
15. Carrots

We've also got some sweet peppers and giant red bell pepper planted in a plot in that garden space but they haven't come up yet.

In garden space #2, which used to be a rose and daffodil bed until I pulled out the rose bushes (sorry Tengrain) and the daffodils, we've got:

1. Two different varieties of peas
2. Three or four different varieties of hot peppers
3. Butternut squash
4. Green beans
5. Radishes
6. Cauliflower
7. Cucumbers

There's still a smidgen or two of space left so I may put in some Brussels sprouts and some other stuff. I'm hoping we have a bumper crop of tomatoes so we can can some and make some salsa to can as well. I'm also hoping we get a bunch of butternut squash and potatoes that we can set aside for the fall and winter.

If it was up to me, I'd turn the whole backyard into an urban homestead and grow as much food as we could. I rather have food than grass growing back there because I don't trust that produce that's sold in grocery stores, even some of the organic stuff. I'm sure there some right winger out there who is horrified that we're growing this much stuff, they'll complain that I'm taking the profit out of the corporate farms pockets. And they're right, for every piece of produce that we produce in our back yard, that's money that is not going into the coffers of irresponsible corporations who don't farm organically and who treat their employees like shit. Every tomato we grow, every herb, every potato and pepper, each and every piece of produce in our back yard is pesticide free and fertilizer free. Monsanto and Dow and the rest of the chemical and petro chemical companies can kiss my ass, they're not getting in our garden.

Hopefully, by the end of June we should be eating bunches of stuff out of our garden. Yay!