Goodness! I am so far behind on my posts. I have been cheating and creating a post on a day that I have something to post about, so that when I get to posting, it will show as posted on the day it happened. Trouble is, I haven't gotten around to posting those pictures and I want you to see what the garden looks like now, not two weeks ago....
So here are a few pictures of how great the garden is doing. I am SOOOO proud of our garden. This is our first year having our OWN garden and we're learning a lot of lessons as we go. For instance, next year, we won't plant a whole packet of lettuce seeds in a 3x4 area. The lettuce grew like crazy, and we've been eating a lot of salads as well as giving lettuce away, but it was just getting too crowded. The other evening, I dug up about half of the lettuce and thinned out the rest. This weekend I will plant a new crop and this time I will thin it when it is 2 inches tall as the instructions point out. We also cut down a lot of other plants so that they will have more room to grow. We will still have PLENTY of veggies, but I feel bad killing perfectly good plants. We cut down about 6 corn stalks, 9 bean plants, 12 basil plants, and pulled up one bunch of carrots to transplant into rows for, hopefully, better growing. The carrots we planted ended up being in 2 giant clusters from the peat pellets and peat pots we started them in. Next year, the carrots will all be planted in rows, and started 1 seed per peat pot...
The corn and Japanese cucumbers are doing great! We have 2 eggplants growing that will be ready to pick soon! See picture further down...
The (american) cucumber plant is huge and has a bunch of baby cucumbers growing.
Tiny baby cucumbers!
Broccoli! All 4 plants have a baby broccoli. Will each plant only get one head? I have no idea. This is the first time we've grown it...
We picked one cherry tomato last weekend. I cut it in half and we each had half on our salad. Very tasty and fresh! We have several more cherry tomatoes growing and a few romas too. I forgot to snap a picture of the romas.
The gorgeous Japanese eggplant. There is one more about this same size, I'd say these are about 4 inchces long right now. I'm not sure how we'll eat these. Maybe a tempura, maybe pickled. I need to read up on some ways to prepare them...
Your garden looks so wonderful! We are in the same boat - learning as we go as this is only our second year...but even the mistakes are fun. I cant wait to see it in person :)
ReplyDeleteOh and the broccoli plants will each grow one large head from the middle, which you want to pick before the tiny flowers that make up the head turn open and turn yellow. Then for a few weeks after you have cut off the main head, little individual shoots of broccoli will grow on the side of the plant. Its pretty cool really!