Showing posts with label Garden Updates. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Garden Updates. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

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).

Friday, February 3, 2012

Onion Bulb Update

One week ago I planted several onion bulbs.  This evening while playing in the garden with my toddler I saw 6 or 7 little onion sprouts popping up through the soil!  So far the bulbs are promising!

Saturday, January 28, 2012

A Walk Through My Garden (Week 10)

Today marks the 10 week mark since I planted my first seeds.  The garden sure has changed!  Here is a virtual walk through my garden. 

The whole garden bed

Swiss Chard

Ghost Pepper Plant.  Looks bad because the frost got it, but it's still productive

Radishes ready to harvest?

Turnip peeking through

Onions

Beets

Broccoli

Salad greens (Bottom to top: Bibb lettuce, Grand Rapids Lettuce, Mesclun Mix, Spinach & carrots above)

Carrots intercropped with Bibb lettuce

Carrots

Garlic

Kohlrabi

Sarah's Radish bed

Broccoli

Flat leaf parsley.  I'm harvesting quicker than it's growing.  Must plant more.

Little Ghost Pepper

Strawberry planter the girls bought me for Christmas