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.
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.
More
Just from one day
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.