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May 4, 2015 By lpilewski

May Day!!

We celebrated May Day on Friday with glorious spring weather. The garden is coming along very well at this point. So now it is time to add supports for the peppers and eggplants and get the tomatoes trimmed up. I also weeded the beds a few times this week, which took about 10 minutes total! Once again, we had a lot of rain this week, so only a few cups of water were needed on Saturday.

Garden-0217Above, you can see how well everything is doing. Here is the other bed:

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Look at that zucchini in the upper right corner! Growing like crazy. Also showing well are the arugula (bottom, 2nd from left) and the radishes (top, second from left). We’re harvesting radishes in about 10 days!

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Now to trim up the tomato plants. I’ve been told to allow them to grow up, not out, and to trim the lower branches. A clean pair of kitchen shears took care of this quickly. Trimmed plants below.

Garden-0241 Garden-0242

 

I’ve also been worried about supporting the peppers and eggplant, so went ahead and bought some pepper and eggplant stakes (really clever name, right?) from Gardeners.com $29.95/3. They’re so shiny and red and look really cheerful in the garden. Assembly was non-existant. Unwrap and pop the little plugs into the tops, then push down into the soil.

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I also used one of these to train the wandering zucchini vine back to the trellis. Hope this works!

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Next week – harvesting baby arugula and full grown radishes. Yay!

 

 

 

Filed Under: Garden Components, Week by Week Tagged With: ladder, pepper and eggplant stake, tomato trim, Zucchini

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In the Beginning

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Welcome! Follow along with me as I try gardening for the first time! My grandfather and mother are both amazing gardeners who could grow anything. Grapefruit, oranges, lemons, tomatoes, peppers, avocados, flowers, figs, mangoes, papayas – nothing seemed to wither on the vine.

Then there is me.  I’ve never had success with plants, but that is going to change this summer!  The picture above is what I see in my mind. I’m hoping that my kitchen counter will look like this. (OK, not the mushrooms, but you get the idea).

I intend to detail the journey here on a weekly basis. We’ll have to wait to see how my garden grows. Hope you stick around!

In the Garden

  • Pineapple Tomato x2
  • Hillbilly Tomato
  • Mortgage Lifter Tomato
  • Sweet Million Cherry Tomato
  • Bush Cucumber
  • Fooled You (no-heat jalapeno)
  • Sweet Sunset Banana Pepper
  • Orange Bell Pepper
  • Marconi Red Peppers
  • Mad Hatter Pepper
  • Garlic Chives
  • Wandering Onions
  • Hot and Spicy Oregano
  • Spice Island Rosemary
  • Silver Thyme
  • Julep Spearmint
  • Sweet Basil
  • Sage
  • Lavender
  • Carrots
  • Orange and Yellow Marigolds
  • Firepot Dahlias
  • Heliotrope

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Square Foot Gardener in Taylors, SC

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