Vertical trellis gardening in summer

Everything is flourishing in the main garden. I have trellis for the squashes, pumpkins, and cucumbers, and put posts around the tomatoes and peppers.

In the first picture you can see I have fencing laying on top of the garden mound  --I'm attempting to prevent my cat from digging in the soil-- specifically because she is peeing and crapping around the plants. Actually, it's not helping as she still finds a way to dig on all the garden mounds.

Pumpkins, cushaw, yellow squash and lettuce 

The potatoes in the grow bags have stalks now. To the right of the potato bags is the polytunnel, and here I suspect the watermelons will be up in a couple of days. We desperately need rain now that our cool spring weather has quickly turned into 90 degree weather.

Potatoes in grow bags + varieties of greens

Here the two garden beds are full of plant diversity. There's  cabbages, broccoli, radishes, carrots, cilantro, beets, kale, spinach, collards, and herbs growing together. The mound to the left has peas blooming as they're climbing the trellis.

Similarly in this mound I have a variety of greens growing together. As these plants get bigger, I can still plant in between them with seeds or transplant veggies.

For instance, I still have a lot of tomatoes left to transplant, so I could plant tomatoes where I need to fill in spaces of the garden. I've transplanted many tomatoes and peppers already, but I probably have 30 tomato plants that I have to figure out what to do with (if I can).

This mound is growing cucumbers but you may notice there isn't any sprouting in the front of the mound-- this is also where my cat is digging. So near this mound I have made a litter box for her to avoid my garden. 

 

As the other gardens begin to flourish, I'll keep ya posted. Have a happy Mother's day to all my motherly gardeners!

Asparagus, lettuce harvest, & putting up garden fencing

The two days of consistent rain made the plants grow, and I was able to pick big lettuce leafs and harvest more Asparagus.

Yesterday while the ground was still wet, I transplanted tomatoes where I put posts, then transplanted basil seedlings with the tomatoes. I may transplant more tomatoes and peppers today as well since I already have holes dug and posts up for them. But the plants aren't big yet so I'm debating still-- I'm sure they'll do better than in the small pots they're growing in.

Additionally I put up the fencing for the cucumbers and peas. I laid down fencing on the squash mound because my cat likes to specifically dig, pee and dookie in this mound, so I'm trying to prevent my cat from doing that around the small squash seedlings. Once they grow big enough, my cat won't get on the mound and I ca then use the fencing for them to grow on.

Cactus blooming (indoor plant garden) + Full Moon

the cats through palm leaf

 I wasn't sure the cacti were ever going to bloom. Sure enough after December they started budding and today one of the blooms opened to reveal its delicate parts.

cactus flower

Days ago, the full moon was much to be hyped about, as it was a blue blood moon. Under the moon, I had a fire that night and was able to burn a lot of brush from around the yard. I'm trying to clean up the weeds and burn the mimosa trees in this spot so I can start working on the cob greenhouse structure. More details to come with the many other garden tasks ahead.

Keeping cats out of houseplants

I have vining plants in hanging pots. If the hanging pots are placed high enough, the plants will be out of the reach of cats. On my kitchen counter I have plants as well to keep away from the cats.

I brought in some of my houseplants because it's getting colder outside and the rain off of the hurricanes is stressing my houseplants that I had outside. In the pictures below show you how I am protecting the houseplants from the cats. So far this is keeping the cats out.
Medium sized potted plants can be put on a platform to keep away from cats. Medium to larger potted plants can be put on a table with a mesh wire around the plants.