I could post so many pics of the gardens as they’ve grown this season, but I’ll start with orientation then move to fun things hubs has been harvesting.
Side note: I planted so many seeds this winter with the intention of growing all the things this season, then got a work contract on the other side of the country. Now hubs is tending all the things as best he can while I merely look on longingly from afar.
A lot of the seeds were direct sown: corn, squash, melons, beans, peas, flowers, greens, artichokes, asparagus. Some veggies/greens/fruits were seeded ahead of time - tomatoes, tomatillos, peppers, aubergines, onions, culinary herbs (mint, basil, klip dagga, lavender, cilantro, etc.), tobacco, goldenberry.
I also include some video walkthroughs of the beds/areas. There may be some random swearing, so just glide on past that if it bothers you. I’ve been hanging around too many roughnecks. 
If you want to see crop specific where I post more particularly about some things:
Tomatoes
Potatoes
Bulbing Onions
Onward!
Eastern Beds
Sometime in March the snow melted off, and I couldn’t control myself. I planted an asparagus bed and a greens bed - mache, chard, kale, shiso, lettuce, and artichokes. Mind you, I don’t really like greens, so this was all for the love of my hubs… who hasn’t eaten any of them and who only eats the wild lamb’s quarters growing everywhere. 
Asparagus bed has Mary Washington seeds, and we later bought some MW and (some purple variety) crowns to add to this bed. I think he also later added garlic in here as well.:
The greens bed:
These two beds were a bit of a turning point in my head. I’d like to believe that I can plant seeds that will figure out when they want to sprout. Obviously some seeds won’t handle this kind of STUN, but I’m playing around to see how many of our typical “annuals” will transition to this style of growing. Or to see which ones I can seed in the fall and will come up on their own in the spring. The goal being to reduce the number of things I have to coddle inside (our house is small and we are off-grid) and reduce the number of things we have to seed/plant in the spring. 
These are the four eastern beds. Far left (north/east) mostly garlic + lamb’s quarters, next closest is the asparagus + garlic/lamb’s quarters, one perpendicular to that is the greens bed, then the far right (south/east) bed is sun roots and heeled in baby trees (black cherry, pecan, red mulberry, shellbark hickory, hickory mix, and persimmons).
Greens + garlic, cilantro, and a couple potatoes:
Video walkthrough of this bed:
Asparagus bed in the foreground, garlic/cilantro bed in the background:
Video of this bed:
Sun roots + trees:
Video:
In June I came home for a break and planted the remaining seed snail plants that hadn’t been put in the ground yet. This group of random tomatoes + lettuce leaf basil got planted on the forest floor. The basil hates this decision. It hasn’t grown well at all. It hasn’t died, but it also hasn’t thrived. You won’t be seeing pictures of any of these again… 
Though I think hubs said he was able to harvest a couple cherry tomatoes from these plants.
Video:
More in the next post…
Things to try again…
