Farm Update #16

This morning I decided to snap a few photos of the garden. While we are doing some cleaning of old plants and weeds here are some of the good things growing!

The giant pumpkin vine...



Eggplant finally blossoming...


Bell peppers finally turning colors...


Salad bar... YUMMM!!!

Container Gardening...

When I moved all our herbs, I didn't really have a good place to put them so I threw them in a container. I've never done much container gardening before so this was new to me.


Basil, chives, sage, oregano, and something else

I also wanted to grow some more cucumbers and peas. I had these two long containers that had annuals in them. We chucked all of them and planted more seeds. I've shown photos in the past but here are they today! Cucumbers are already blossoming!!!



So far, so good! Can't wait to see how high they will grow! At the moment we are using twist ties we got from the produce section at the market. seems to be working like a charm! The vines are already 3 times longer than when I had them laying on the ground.

Farm Update #16

Lots of things are still growing in the garden.

Pumpkins




Bell Peppers


Salad Bar


YUM!!!

Farm Update #15

I usually do this weekly but wanted to give a little glimpse of what the garden looks like every morning.



Pumpkin blossoms


Tomato Blossoms


Cucumbers learning to climb


Our mini giant pumpkin

Baby Star Melon




New Pea Seedlings


Radishes from the Salad Bar area

Farm Update #14

If I could pick one color describe the garden, I'd pick yellow. We have lots of blossoms and flowers coming out right now. Too many to photograph, so here are a few highlights!

Giant Pumpkin Vine

Bees doing their thing in one of the many pumpkin blossoms

Pretty Giant Sunflowers

Star Melon Blossoms


Our friend Farmer Bob has a big garden at his ranch. His puts ours to shame to be quite honest. In fact, we went over there on Saturday to "steal" some veggies and fruits. Below are just a FEW of the squash he's growing on top of some corn. We also grabbed 15 lbs of oranges. Oh so juicy! I could feel bad but I did give him a spaghetti squash... ya, just one, but it really was a big one! :) Thanks Farmer Bob!

Farm Update #13

Our little stick is now a grapevine


The hill has been taken over by spaghetti squash! YUMM!


The newest addition to the family... 3 new tomato plants


The original cherry tomato plant has given us well over 14 lbs and lots more to come


Notice anything different? We harvested the corn and cleaned out the area to plant more small tomato plants. We're going to sell them a our local farmers market. Here's hoping they grow like our first one!

Our multi cultural pepper plants in the back, the front row is eggplant


The Giant Pumpkin vine is growing!



Our Super Sunflowers... They are now 7 ft tall.

Our little cucumber seedlings

Farm Update #12

Peppers and eggplants newly planted!


Spaghetti Squash blossom and our first big squash!



our little Cherry Tomatoes are just producing like crazy!


We've picked over 9lbs of tomatoes in the last week. We ended up making spaghetti sauce with it... Oh SOOO good!

Farm Update #11

Only one word to describe the weather now... UCKY! First it is cloudy and cold, then humid, then sunny and hot, now lukewarm and humid. I'm starting to get annoyed by this. How can anything grow with the sun playing hide and seek.

So what is the update on the garden? Well, Here is Mr. Cucumber #1. We found about 5 others growing but this is our first. I give it another week and then he's going straight to the grill! YUM!



We also planted marigolds throughout the hills. Not really picture worthy. Other than that, not much to report (oh we did harvest another lb of salad greens!).

This weekend we are going to finally finish the tier... Hopefully.

Farm Update #10

The Grapes are waking up!!!


Corn is going through another growth spurt, it's going to be taller than me soon!

The garlic looking very chipper




Blooming chili peppers


one of our little cucumbers


Just a few carrots

Radishes are ready to come out!


Then I have to deal with this:



I need to do some research to figure out what is happening. If you know please help!!!

EDIT: I heard this could be leaf miners... I guess it's time to research!