Some of these sections will be linked back to earlier posts. For example, I planted the broccoli on
July 24 and they have sprouted. I needed to move them around, because watering had moved the seeds to all the weirdest locations possible. But I had 13 come up and hopefully, now that I have moved them back to where I wanted them, they will grow.
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| Tiny Broccoli Sprout #1 of 13 |
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| Tiny Broccoli Sprout #2 of 13 |
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Remember when I talked about the best way to pollinate a cucumber plant when there are not a lot of bees around? On
July 20, I took pix of two female cucumber blossoms. These are the two from that post.
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| One of Two Cukes Pollinated on July 20 |
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| Other cuke pollinated that day |
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| Cucumber Sprawl off deck and over grass |
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Square raised garden bed continues to thrive. The basil are doing well. The thyme is becoming more like bushes but not very tall. The dill continues to get taller. The carrots and radishes are getting ready to pull. I pulled four mature carrots today (no photos of them). The beans are quite long, and I tied them back against the wire fence to keep them up out of the dirt.
July 20 I took photos of the beans when they were about 1 inch long
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| Row of 4 Basil |
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| Row of Radishes |
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| B-F Beans, Dill, Basil, (Thyme is hidden) and Carrots |
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| Green Beans Growing |
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| More Green Beans |
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Bell Peppers are now growing fast. On
July 11, I took photos of the scraggly looking peppers that had started to bloom. Now look at them!
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| Nice Sized Pepper in Orange bucket plant |
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| Two Peppers on another plant. |
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No link backs on this one. The German plant has eight tomatoes as of today. Slow to grow and ripen. This plant was topped at about four feet because it will try to grow to eight feet tall. To help encourage fruit growth a bit faster, we topped it and pruned it. The Sungold is full of cherry tomatoes. No way to truly count. The photos, while out of focus, allow you to see up through the plant at dozens of little tomatoes. The photos were actually taken in two different locations even though they look similar. The Chocolate Cherry tomatoes are more spread out and not as many on the vines. Then the Purple Cherokee also has a lot of full sized tomatoes. It was so heavy that we pruned it back as previously mentioned and tied up a lot of the lower heavy branches.
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| Heirloom German + 8 |
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| Sungold Thick |
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| More Sungold |
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| Chocolate Cherry |
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Find the
Purple Cherokee Tomatoes
Yellow Arrows |
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| Purple Cherokee Tied Up |
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