Monday, July 11, 2011

Garden Progress!

Well, its July and we are finally getting produce from our slow starting garden. We lost our tomato plants a couple times to deer, but after using Liquid Fence we never saw another plant uprooted or eaten down to the soil. Our tomato plants are just now getting tomatoes on them, but we are sure enjoying some of the other items. Our broccoli never did anything thus it was uprooted and we planted another 2 1/2 rows of beets so those are just coming out of the ground(I planted them on June 28th). Figure it will be nice to have a second harvest of those. We have almost eaten all the khalarbi (we have two left) and boy have they been good. We had our first pick of green beans last night and those were put on our lettuce salads and our shrimp packets on the grill. We also picked a zucchini which there will be plenty more of those coming soon!!! We have harvested lettuce(which was a last minute plant cause my mother had left over seeds) and we have cut it twice now. We have all eaten at least one a piece of the banana peppers and Im thinking I might get to pickle them if they keep coming like they are. We also ate one green pepper in our shrimp packets last night....yummm!!! Our rhubarb did NOTHING!!! Didn't even come out of the ground!! Guess I'll replant rhubarb next year. Our 4 cucumbers we planted we thought died and so I replanted 12 seeds and out of those 12 seeds 2 came up!!! REDICULOUS!! Well, those 2 new plants just died again last week, but to our shocking surprise the original plants are still alive and so we have 2 VERY LATE cucumber plants. In fact we have one little tiny cucumber coming and about 4 flowers...so we might be lucky to get a cucumber this fall:). Well, thats my update on the garden front. Here is a picture of our garden as of today:)
(starting at right is where khalarbi was, then its green peppers, green beans, 3.5 rows of beets, banana peppers, okra, lettuce, yellow and green zucchini, tomatoes and cucumbers)