Progress - The plants are growing

The potatoes are doing great! There is something green coming up from every location I planted. However, I talked to someone at church and he said his plants are HUGE! Not sure I left enough room between plants or that my planter box is big enough.

Strawberries aren't doing well. I'm trying to water them more but I think by using dirt from my yard I may have used soil that is too "heavy". Picked that up from a friend who has been gardening for a few years.

I transplanted my corn, cucumbers, and zucchini into planter boxes for my second "shock" per ZamZows. The problem is I don't know how to move them from the boxes to the garden. I'm afraid all of their little root systems with get entangled. I probably should have done two sizes of small shock pots (thats my terminology) instead. Oh well, I'll figure something out.

My husband is getting the fence posts today to do the garden so we should hopefully be planting into the ground and have some automatic irrigation system in place soon.

I got two blueberry bushes and two raspberry bushes and got those planted. I had to add support sticks to them as they were blowing around in the a fierce wind last night. I've got them replanted into large pots on the deck. I wanted them in the ground but my husband wanted to try them in pots first, we can always move them to the ground later if its not working on the deck.

It's nice that he participates.

The shock pots don't seem to be reusable as I had to push the bottoms in to get the plants out and they were wet so they fell apart. I may have to invest in plastic ones so I can use them year after year. I won't be able to buy shock pots when the world ends! The other option is one a friend of ours does where they have a sun room attachment to their house and it extends over their garden. We don't have a place for that as we have a 360 deck around our mountain cabin but we could do something just off the deck, just build a little enclosure. I'll have to think about that after we get the garden, the cow fence, the chicken coop, and the horse fence built maybe we can do a green house.

Have a great and blessed day!