It is week 10 and I’m super excited! We have a tiny eggplant growing! How about that purple variegated little guy!
A little backtracking here. I was very worried about the eggplant since it had been chewed up by, I think, flea beetles…
Zucchini
Veggie Tales
So, more veggies to pick this week! Giant ones at that! We’re picking in week 9 and our very first zucchini was a monster. I put it next to a jar of pasta sauce for reference:
It was 11″ long and weighed almost a pound! …
Pollinators and Pests
A midweek report. Little white butterflies are pollinating the garden. They particularly like the brussel sprouts and the tomatoes.
Still haven’t decided about the squash blossoms, but we surely do have a lot of them! The zucchini are growing really quickly as well. Better get ready for these!…
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.
Above, you can see how well everything is doing….
More Week 2 – Plants!
Now we can plant! But first, we’ve got to decide what to include in the garden. I’d gone to Lowes and bought a bunch of seed packets several weeks ago and I brought those out to figure out the garden plan. Tomatoes and peppers would be purchased as plants to give them a fair head start. Here’s the plan (I even used fancy graph paper!):
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