What did you do in the garden today?

[Smokerbill]

I pruned quite a few of the lower leaves from my zucchini plants. I have one loop of fabric tied around each vine so far, trying to get them trained to grow along the pole. Seems kind of tricky, trying to grow zucchinis vertically. It's difficult to find a way to tie around the vine without crushing a blossom or bud.

 

[Smokerbill]

I have small jalapeno and Hatch peppers on the plants now, but no habaneros yet. The habanero plants are very small for some reason, less than a foot tall. I think my new garden bed soil is somehow deficient, and I'm guessing the pH level is off. All the tomato plants in that bed look weird too, growing more vertically than bushy which is weird for Roma tomatoes.




The Provider bush beans are blooming a lot but the plants are kind of small. The vining rattlesnake beans are over 6 feet up on the trellis now. I'm going to have to add a vertical extension at the upper side of the angled part of the trellis eventually.

 

[Smokerbill]

The Roma tomato plants in the raised bed look much better than the ones in the new garden plot. I'm wrapping electrical wire around the angled posts at the ends of the two rows of 3 plants to support them. If it works out I'll have walls of tomato vines angle toward the sides of the bed. Should make it easy for picking.

 

[Smokerbill]

Pickling cukes are still plugging along, and the dill definitely continued producing new heads after I harvested the first time.

 

[Smokerbill]

Looks like I'll have plenty of Snow Pea seeds for next year if they're viable.



Most of the Blue lake bean plants next to the onions and shallots are doing great, but a few are stunted. Those might be growing in a spot where I pulled a couple onions up to plant the seeds. I read that if beans are planted next to undisturbed onions they do ok, but if the onion are disturbed or damaged they put out that chemical that's hard on bean plants and stunts them.


My "control" Blue lake bean row, growing far from the onions, is doing well too. It was planted a couple weeks after the beans next to the alliums.

 

[Paz]

Picked tons of tomatoes, 13 kg, my mother is making Mat-buha

 

[Smokerbill]

The Black seeded Simpson lettuce I planted rarely gets watered, but it continues growing for some reason.


Baby cabbages are forming on the cabbage stumps.



Butternut squash plants are doing great in the chicken run woodchip compost pile. They definitely won't need any fertilizer. I'm hoping that the amount of nitrogen in the chicken compost doesn't cause the vines to produce only vines and leaves, but no blossoms or squash.

 

[BirdsBeesTrees]

Sorry to hear you’re having a rough time. I’m guessing they didn’t do anything to the thumb much more than a small splint.

 

[OnlySympathy]

I ordered some more seeds. I got round zucchini, gold rush beans, beets, some leaf lettuce, rhubarb Swiss chard, and white radish

 

[OnlySympathy]

This tomato is doing way too well for being in a 1 gallon pot and being less than a month old (started from a cutting). It’s around 4-4.5 feet tall and started at 6 inches