The gardens are coming along

I've actually gotten all four boxes for this section built and planted. The third box pictured here is mostly herbs of various kinds including rosemary,lavender,chocolate mint,and cilantro. In the fourth box in this set which is not pictured yet( forgot to take a pic yesterday) I've planted all of skylar's strawberries. A few of the strawberry plants already had berries started. I have even managed to plant the second bundle of onions.

Being that the temps will be in the thirties tonight and again tomorrow night I will be covering the strawberries later today to protect the plant and the berries from the cold. Strawberries, which are cold hardy, can withstand temps as low as 22 degrees when dormant. However, when the strawberry plants have new leaves,buds, and even berries anything around the low 30's can set the plant back into a dormant state causing the loss of the berries or even the entire plant. 

I have also started on my second 4 set of raised beds. Meaning I built the box and threw in two bags of compost. I seem to need more veggies for the garden so in these next 4 boxes I will plant broccoli, cauliflower, cucumbers, more squash, more bellpeppers, and perhaps maybe even some garlic. I'm saving my seed crops for last and each seed crop will have its own box. The seed crops so far include corn, white potatoes, and water melon so far. 

The new veggie and herb garden

I had a great day for planting yesterday the box on the right has tomatoes on the back row, bellpeppers on the row in front of the tomatoes, and the rest of the right box is sweet onions. I had never attempted to plant onions before and really didn't know how, but I got two bundles of onions anyway not knowing you had to seperate every single onion and plant it. The sweet onions in the right box is only one of the bundles I had bought. The box on the left is the herb box. The herb box has pineapple sage in the back row, cinnamon basil on the row in front of that along with lemon thyme,oregano, there's a  one Rosemary in the corner a sweet basil and some squash right in front. I still have some herbs that I wasn't able to plant today, I didn't have anymore room. Tomorrow I will build a few more boxes and get a few more bags of compost. I may actually end up with about two boxes for herbs. I will also be building a box just for watermelon, one for corn which is going to be huge, one for potatoes,and a small one just for the rest of those onions I bought. I like putting all of my veggies and herbs in boxes because it's easier for me to plant. The ground at the farm is pretty hard and most of it is clay. Being we don't have a tractor and only a hand tiller, right now it's my best option. As I get the next boxes built and more things planted I will post pictures and let all of my wonderful readers know what I've planted. I know I seem to have a ton of tomato plants and onions right now and not much else and still I know I will need way more of everything in order to get the amount of crops I'm hopeing for.