The garden is finally going good, after what seems like an eternity of wondering if the sun and heat would ever show in 2010. Besides everything being about 30 days behind, and almost have reconciled that the pepper yields will be nil, everything is going great.
Here is the beginning of the year:
…and here it is now:
We’ve already been enjoying strawberries, artichokes, cauliflower, squash, radishes, and zucchini. Waiting on the beans, brussel sprouts, cucumbers, and tomatoes. Pumpkins are doing well, 4 softball sized ones on the vine with numerous smaller ones which I’m sure I should have cut off by now. The watermelons everyone said would never grow are 4 inches round and growing every day. Cukes are on the vine, and harvest of first batch is probably a week out at the most. I even planted some decorative gourds that everyone said would flop…and they took over our fenceline. Tomatoes are EVERYWHERE on the vine…when they hit, I’m due for a bit of work storing them all. The pepper plants are budding, but I fear their small size will make for an uneventful yield. No matter, we’ll see what happens.
Fall garden is being planned right now!
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