While tropical storm Issac is running its course in the Gulf of Mexico, here at the White House on the east coast of Florida we are staying pretty busy.  After spending a great summer in the Amish Country of the Finger Lakes Region of Upstate New York I came home ready to get a garden started in hope that we would be able to not only eat what we grow but possibly can or freeze the harvest. 

Here is the picture taken at the end of July about two weeks after we planted.  We planted everything from seed except for the corn in this picture.

These two pictures are the same area as the picture above from July 31.  These picture were taken today August 27 between storm squalls.  The picture on the left shows the pole beans in between rows of corn.  At the bottom of this picture are the pumpkin and watermelon seeds that my boys planted.  The right picture is more corn with a row of bush beans in between.

The picture above is from the other end of the corn rows.  These plants are squash and cucumbers.  They are looking pretty good so far.  I hope we can keep the pests out.

This is the area of the garden north of the squash.  We planted tomato and pepper seeds but nothing came up.  So I decided to have a try at growing seedlings in a recycled plastic 9 pack container.  I used the burpee seedling dirt and the seeds grew very well.  I have now transplanted them.  The larger plants were bought and the smaller ones are my home grown seedlings. 

 

We are looking forward to have a fruitful harvest that we can enjoy and share fresh vegetables.