So The Veggies Are Growing…
I’ve been trying to update all week, but things have been blowing around too much. We’ve had 35-40 mph winds all week, with occasional gusts even higher. It’s hard to get decent pics in all that wind. The wind finally “calmed down” to 20-25 mph today, so took quick pics between gusts…
Pics and more
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This is the raised bed from one end. The zucchini is doing what zucchini is supposed to do, as opposed to staying small and puny, then dying, like it did last year. There’s even a baby zucchini already. Cantaloupe is growing up the green pole, while Gold Bar Melons are growing up the tower thingy. Lettuce and spinach are doing great so far under the sun shade. Chard is growing under the cube thingies between the zucchini and the lettuce. Baby hot peppers are under the cubes further down.
Here’s the view from the other end; you can see the Sequoia bush beans and baby jalapenos. The jugs are my “irrigation system.”
View from the other end
I have a few baby tomatoes to put between the two melon towers; just letting them get a good set of roots before I plant them.
The wood container has two patio tomatoes, and some cilantro. On the far side, you can see the volunteer tomatoes, the cucumbers, and the green beans with the mums.
Container Veggies
The volunteer tomatoes are coming along nicely. There’s one that should be ready tomorrow; there might even be enough lettuce and spinach to make a salad for everybody. YUM!
Almost ripe tomato
Actual green beans!
I’ve got a bunch of small green beans, not quite ready to pick yet. Maybe tomorrow. Not sure what’s going on with the green beans; disease or bugs. Think it might be Mexican Bean Beetles. Need to do more research on it. But I’m still getting green beans, which is an improvement over last year.
Fruit Basket Sweet Peppers
The baby Fruit Basket peppers seem to be doing okay so far. They get quite a bit of morning sun, even in the tree, but filtered afternoon sun. Considering the summer heat, I think they’ll probably do better hanging from a tree than the ones exposed to full sun in the garden. Good thing hot peppers like heat!
I noticed yesterday that the same bugs, judging by the chewing patterns, that decimated and killed my melons last year appear to be trying to do it again. No idea what bug it is, but I don’t see any caterpillars, so I’m going with beetles of some kind. I read somewhere that Gold Bond Medicated powder worked for a few people. They said the bugs apparently didn’t like the menthol taste. I went to the Dollar Store tonight and bought a couple containers of the store brand and puffed it all over the leaves after I misted them with water to help it stick. We’ll see in the morning if there are new holes. Made some garlic/hot pepper tea, but it was still too windy tonight to even spray. I would very likely have ended up wearing more of the stuff than the plants; it’s supposed to be less windy tomorrow. I’ll try it tomorrow night if the powder hasn’t helped.
So that’s what’s going on in the veggie garden. All in all, doing much better than they did last year. And now it’s time to say good night, y’all…
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