Pickle Patch Gardens

Summer is officially here and the garden is well on its way. Today we are going to take you on a quick (ish) tour of how things are progressing in the garden. In the next few days we will hi-light each section and go more in depth in regards to varieties. This is going to be a picture heavy post so sit back and enjoy. The island garden as you may recall is a first for us this year. In here we have planted (amongst the weeds) watermelon 🍉 white pumpkin 🎃, butter nut squash and spaghetti squash. The soil is a bit hard and lacking in nutrients so growing isn't progressing as quick as we would have hoped. However, nothing has died yet so there's hope!  We also have two crabapple trees, two rhubarb plants and asparagus in this section. The asparagus had a rough year and the crabapple trees never bloomed. It has been a strange growing year for sure. Let move onto what we call the main garden. This garden is just over 3000 sq ft and contains the majority of our crop. Chi...

Hello and welcome to our blog!  We are just in the beginning stages of getting this all together so please bear with us as we set everything up. Here are the answers to  few questions you may or may not have. Why a blog ?  Don't get us wrong Facebook it great, however unless you pay for adds or have a 10,000 plus likes it is hard to get noticed in people's feeds.  In addition to that Facebook is now trying to revamp after their data breech. One of their new algorithms will show friends and family over businesses. Which is great, but not for a small business looking to keep its followers in the loop. So we are turning to blogging. It will not replace our other social media account, but hopefully complement it. The added bonus with blogger is that you can sign up to follow us via email. It likely a little newsletter from us and hey it's free! What will you post about? Our blog posts will complement our Facebook or instagram posts. However, once we start ...