We finally harvested our first ripe tomatoes this weekend...makes the whole gardening so satisfying when you finally get to eat the fruits of your labor.
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| Little under a pound. |
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| He's watching the plants grow. |
My son checking out the garden. This is definitely one of the reason's I wanted to grow a garden, to show my kids how food grows, and how they can take a little part in taking care of themselves & the earth.
This is the watermelon plant. Seed was from a seeded watermelon we bought from a local grower.
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| About 2 feet of vine now. |
The birds ate up the other five, bet this sunflower feels lonely.
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| Nearly 6 inches tall. |
Big sigh....the Zucchini just can't take it anymore. It's succumb to another vine borer and all the squash bugs. We've decided to just let it go, leave it as the trap plant. We only got three Zucchini out of it. Next year we'll just have to be better prepared.
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| Wilting away |
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| Vine borer damage |
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| Drying out & dying |
Cantaloupe plant thriving. 
Three melons are maturing. Still waiting on the first large melon to ripen.
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| Still waiting on this melon to ripen. As you can see under the tan netting of the melon, the skin is still green. It'll be ripe & ready when the skin color is greyish. |
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| Second largest melon. |
There are about a dozen peppers on the pepper plant. Aside from adding to a salad what other way can I eat all these peppers?
The pole beans are getting bushier, at the top of the trellis. We still have a few more weeks to go till this plant matures & starts giving us beans. We started this from seeds.
Our Burpless cucumber, our prolific producer.
Finally some ripening on our peppers. A friend who visited the other day was amazed to see the pepper laden plant.
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| Gypsy Pepper |
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| Karma Bell Pepper |
I find a dead one of these every other day now. Hmmm wonder why?
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| Another one bites the dust. |
Oh Sweet Corn, the storm damage hasn't stopped them from growing. So glad because I thought there may have been too much root damage.
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| An ear of corn. |
Even despite being bent at the top, some of the stalks have managed somehow to straighten back up.
The Topsy Tury tomatoes.
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| Roma on the left, Hybrid on the right. |
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| Roma tomato bunches. |
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| Grow bag of Fingerling potatoes. |
We had two containers of potatoes & sad to say we discovered that the other (not pictured) contained NO potatoes despite the foliage already flowering. When we turned the container out and sifted throught the dirt, we discovered very little roots, no potatoes & lots of dissapointment. Here's hoping this container of Fingerling potatoes are actually growing potatoes. We will definitely will be waiting till the foliage has died off.
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| Strawberry pot. |
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| Baby Carrots |
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| Earth Box tomato. | | | |
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So that's our garden this week.
