This top photo is of one lonely basil sprout. I am hoping it survives and that others pop up soon. I tried to get a photo of the dill, but those are so tiny, and my lens is not strong enough to show them yet. I don't know if the thyme are sprouting. I don't know their sprouts from weeds, yet. Carrots are also sprouting, but, like the dill, are too small to photograph.
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| Tiny Basil Sprout 6-14-19 |
This is the one lettuce pot, of the three, with the most seeds that germinated. I have since thinned it out to two sprouts per location (5), so that they don't crowd each other. Each pot has a different type of leaf lettuce.
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| Leaf Lettuce in Pot 6-14-19 |
This is a group of potato blossoms. This barrel has the most blossoms and most foliage.
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| White Potato Blossoms 6-14-19 |
Radish. While I did not plant a lot of these seeds, only half have popped up. I will replant this weekend to fill in the empty space.
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| One of a few Radishes 6-14-19 |
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| Strawberries Galore 6-14-19 |
My beans are looking good. Like the Basil and Radishes, the beans are also in my square garden bed. The past few years, I have planted the beans on the East side of the garden, but last year's crop was slim. I only ended up with two bean plants that survived. This year, I planted them on the south side of the garden. Eight popped up this week. Two were mowed down by slugs. I have put slug bait around the outside of the garden and then, over the weekend, two more beans popped up. I have thinned it down to five solid starts.
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| Bush Bean sprouts 6-14-19 |
These are some of the largest of the strawberries that are almost ready for picking. You can see that I layered the soil with leaves to keep the berries out of the wet dirt. I like to use leaves because they don't contain any weed seeds, like straw/grass contains, and there are no splinters like bark shavings have.
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| Large Strawberries 6-17-19 |
I think I mentioned that I had four cucumbers starts. Then suddenly poof, over the weekend, one vanished into thin air. No roots, no stem, no nothing! I have never had that happen before. I have replanted in an attempt to get one or two more seeds to pop back up. In the meantime, these three are getting larger and seem very happy.
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| Three Cukes 6-17-19 |
I added blood meal to the tomatoes again. This will be the last time for adding blood meal, and from here on out I will use a "fruit" fertilizer every other week to help with the actual tomatoes which should be starting soon. I have lots of blossoms on the SunGold cherry tomato plant, and we may actually have some cherry tomatoes to eat by July. (Fingers Crossed.)
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| The Four Tomato Plants 6-17-19 |
The potatoes are continuing to look healthy. No more fertilizer. Just a good watering once or twice a week and pull them under the shade of the maple tree on the really hot days to protect them from burning.
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| Close Up on Potatoe Blossoms |
That's my garden update for the middle of June.
