Everything is in the ground

It's the end of March, and pretty much everything I plan on growing this season is in the ground. This year in the Florida panhandle we had a really mild winter and I probably could have planted a month ago were it not for wanting to get a couple last batches of greens.Ah, forget the small talk, let's get to the pics!

Here's a new plot I just plowed up for this season. All shoveled and hoed up by hand, because I'm a badass. I have blisters to prove it. I moved some onions that haven't grown bulbs for crap into this plot to make room for peppers in another bed. Hopefully these onions do something in the next couple months.

This is the future site of a bean teepee. Planted are cowpeas and Blue Lake greenbeans. 

Some zucchini has been planted in a couple tires. Hopefully there were some kickass shenanigans like racing or running from the cops done with these tires. I think the zucchini would prefer it. 

 This is the pepper bed. I freaking love peppers. How much you ask? So much that I need a full 4 x 12 bed of NOTHING BUT PEPPERS! Apparently, leaf-cutters love peppers as well because, being the buttholes that they are, they decided it would be fun to start knocking a plant over once a night. I'm fighting back by putting straws around the stem of the plants at the ground. The plants that are too small got dixie cups put around them. I learned this trick from some old dude. Hopefully he knows his stuff.

Awww yeeeah! Those are my babies right there. This year the pepper selection includes Godfather, Carmen, and Orange Sicle peppers as well as an assortment of colored bell peppers. To spice things up a bit there's Serrano, mammoth Jalepeno and a couple banana peppers. There's also some flower seeds my wife put in the bed to look pretty and attract bees and stuff. She's all about the LMG if you know what I'm sayin.

Yep, those are tomatoes. I think it's practically illegal to not grow tomatoes in your garden. We've got a whole box of em. Included are Amelia, Whopper, Cherry, Cherokee Purple, and Tomande varieties. I'm really excited to see how the Amelias and Cherokees turn out.

This is the bed for plants that like to get crazy. These plants like to party. Tomatillos, Fairy Tale Hybrid Eggplants, watermelons, and Amelia cantaloupes have been planted. There are some open squares too for whatever the future may bring. I thoroughly expect this bed to look like the hill from the book/movie "The Ruins" in two months. Those poor eggplants are going to feel like a senior couple that thought they were attending an AARP conference only to find that they are slap in the middle of a Lil' Wayne concert.

These tomatillo plants like to hustle! They've only been in the ground a week and they're already forming flowers. Granted, I started them from seed inside about a month ago but still. It's easy to see the buds too because my camera's focus is so awesome.

My wife hooked it up with an herb bed. There's dill, basil, cilantro, and other delicious herb seeds in there. If you're not seasoning your food with fresh herbs, you're really missing out.

So that does that. I hope to update with pics of larger, flowering plants in the near future. Can't wait! LMG

Drew