Whatever this is can’t be good. My summer squash plants look a little off. And in possibly related other news, I’m standing ankle deep in water next to the garden beds.
Category Archives: Growing
Supersteak is right
They weren’t kidding. These tomatoes are huge. I picked them a little green as the chipmunks were eyeing them up.
Monster tomatoes
Gone for a week
I left town for a week and harvested this (plus four extremely large zucchini) when I returned. I think I am going to have to can salsa and pickles this weekend or else give some of it away.
Harvest 8/6/2010
More
Just picked some more, straight from the garden!
Just from one day
Here is everything I harvested in just a few minutes today, and there is plenty more for tomorrow…
This week
I’ve been harvesting something about every other day recently, most of which has been zucchini. I have been updating the Plan page with the yields as they come in, which so far are what I expected. The bean plants still look a little off, but I am harvesting something from them now so I think I will just take what I can get and not worry about it this year. The tomatoes look awesome, and I actually have peppers this year!
The broccoli and pea seeds I planted for the fall have already sprouted which makes me excited for what I might be able to get in the fall.
Started some for the fall
I might be a little late, but I started some broccoli for the fall. I think it was supposed to be started a few weeks ago, but with a little luck, I’ll get something from it. I also planted some cilantro seeds since my other plants disappeared or may not have even germinated. I’m not sure what happened, but I hadn’t been paying attention to them so I am not surprised.
First zucchini
The first of the year. I hadn’t checked the garden in a while since it has been raining for the past five days, and this guy was a surprise! It is a little small (about 4 inches), but I am sure there are many more to come. I noticed a few of the flowers have been cut off just below the base, and am wondering if a cutworm of sorts is the culprit. If I have time tonight, I will try to go out and investigate since I have read they are active in the evening (at least when it is dark). I noticed the same flower-sheer type thing with my potato plants as well.
Onion flowers are bad?
Apparently they are if you are trying to grow onion bulbs. I didn’t know that and just tried to search the interwebs to find out how long after they flower I have to wait for harvest. I also learned that you are supposed to plant the smaller of the sets to produce onion bulbs as larger ones will bolt. I assumed the larger ones were better (obviously?).
Tomatoes
More and more tomatoes. All three types have a ton of blooms. There are beefsteak and cherry tomatoes in the picture below.
