A Walk Through The Garden

Finding lots of these little caterpillars on my tomato plants.

Caterpillar damage to tomato plants

More caterpillar damage to tomato plants

Heirloom Bush Tomatoes fruiting

Heirloom Tigress tomatoes fruiting

3 oz of fresh green beans.  Cooked them up and they were SWEET and DELICIOUS!

Ghost Pepper and Jalapeno Pepper harvest

Found what I thought were tiny white beetles on many plants.  Turns out they are Aphid Mummies!  Yay!

Bibb Lettuce going to seed

Tall Bibb lettuce plants going to seed

First strawberry flower!

Another picture of Aphid Mummies

Peppers we gave to a friend

Lettuce seeds getting close to harvest

Tomato plant tucked under a christmas palm doing well. 

Head of Bibb Lettuce

Broccoli flowering

Chocolate Mint and Papaya(?) rooting and taking off

The most successful of the MANY cabbage seeds I planted

Tiny cucumber

2nd tiny cucumber

The onions in the right bed growing like crazy!

Variegated Nastrum  

Not everything in the garden goes as planned or hoped for.  This is one sad looking green bean plant. 

Green bean plant with a couple carrot sprouts around it.

Potatoes in the ground doing well.

Potatoes in the container doing better than in ground.

Flowers (marigold and dwarf zinnea) with Seminole Pumpkin and Butternut Squash.

Basil is growing well, but other herbs look pretty sad.

Swiss Chard

Ghost and Jalapeno Pepper plants.

Golden Amaranth FINALLY sprouting.

Possible Borage sprout?  Maybe it's a weed.  Too early to know.

New Zealand Spinach finally sprouting.

Blueberry bushes, Japanese Cucumbers and 2 heirloom tomatoes waiting for their spots in the garden.

Blueberries!

Best looking zucchini plant with it's first female flower.

Random shot of the garden.  Cukes, squashes, onions, cabbage, corn and broccoli can be seen here.

The left side of the garden (herbs, beans, squashes, tomatoes and watermelon)  all doing well.  You can see my little helper was with me this morning.

Topsy Turvy Tomatoes doing well.

Huge Cauliflower and Lettuce plants (they stand about 4' tall!)

Strawberries

Kohlrabi and herbs 

Herbs next to Kohlrabi (Dill, Chives, Basil, Parsley in ground, Apple Mint and a small tomato plant in pot).

Swiss Chard Harvest

I picked a bunch of my container grown swiss chard for dinner.  It weighed in at 6 oz.  I stir fried it and put it over rice, served with a side of sweet potato balls.  Yum!

Planting Potatoes

Last night I picked up some Russet Seed Potatoes at my local garden center (only cost $2.98).  I cut the seed potatoes in half and planted them in a reusable grocery bag this morning.  I can't wait to see how well they grow in the reusable bag.  :)

Potatoes growing in reusable shopping bag - Day 1

Growing Potatoes in Reusable Shopping Bag

• Acquire seed potatoes
• Cut them to "egg size" (if needed), making sure there are at least 2 eyes per piece
• Mix compost and peat moss and put 4" - 6" in bottom of bag
• Lay potatoes in soil, cut side down.  (I planted 4 halves in this bag)
• Barely cover with soil
• Water thoroughly, until water seeps from bottom of bag
• Add more soil (or pine needles) every couple weeks, half way up the plant growth.
• Harvest when tops yellow and die back (but you can begin harvesting as soon as the plant flowers if you can't wait)