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Still Growing Compared to my last garden picture -- two weeks makes an incredible difference when it comes to growing vegetables! Our garden is thriving, and we're enjoying it so much! Every day we walk out to pull a few weeds, inspect the plants, and exclaim over the green tomatoes and peppers that are starting to form. :) I just can't believe that this is our 5th summer here at our rental house and the first time we've grown any food. What were we thinking?! This gardening stuff is addicting. Our tomatoes are looking great -- although they are so huge that it may be difficult to get back in there and pick. We'll see. Good thing we re-planted them and didn't leave the as close together as I originally planted them!! We haven't had any horn worms yet this year -- yay! :) The onions aren't doing so well... most likely due to the fact that it was June before we planted them. The peppers are looking great. I'm hoping to use some of our pimento peppers for Bethany's jalapeno poppers recipe. Yum... :) Our yellow squash plants and cucumbers are currently under attack. Small yellow and black striped bugs have been eating the leaves of the plants! We've been going out several times each day and killing as many of the little bugs as we can. Left to their own devices, the bugs could easily wipe out our chances of having a squash or cucumber crop this year... :P Our garden is mostly weeds, as the pictures I recently put up on my blog show. We are getting spinach though. We just don't have the heat for the stuff you're growing. WOW, your garden has REALLY popped out!!! This year has been so good for gardening! Do you use manure to fertilize your garden? It is just amazing to see how much it's grown in such a short time! What do you use to stake your tomatoes? We usually just use flimsy garden stakes(the type made for fencing), but this year, the plants were getting so huge that we broke down and bought some wire to make tomato cages. Since the plants are now seven feet tall, we're pretty glad that we did! Aww, what a perty garden. This is my first year too and I'm addicted! I love it. None of my cucumbers came up though because I think the slugs ate all the seeds but the rest of my garden is growing beautifully! It is such a miracle! God is so good! Melissa http://homeschoolblogger.com/thelordismyshepherd Yes, kill the cucumber beetles! They also transmit bacterial wilt to squash plants, and that is much more deadly than their eating the plants. Eating the leaves won't harm a large, well-established plant like the ones you have, but bacterial wilt will decimate the whole thing. I've lost most of my squash and zucchini plants because I didn't recognize what was happening till it was too late :( Tammy, this is completely off topic, but I wanted to let you know I finally tried homemade bagels! I don't know why I waited so long, they were wonderful! Definitely a hit and I will be trying them again soon! Thank you so much! I posted about it on my blog at www.overthefence-trish.blogspot.com When we had our garden, we would pick off the ends of some of the branches on the tomato plants so that more growth would go into the tomato rather than the greenery. Just a tip you might consider. I'm having fun with our garden this year. I did plan ahead a little planting things that I knew I would preserve. I planted jalepeno's to make poppers. I planted pickling cucumbers for kosher dill pickles.....made those today...it was fun! If your interested I have a yellow squash muffin recipe on my blog. They taste very good.....and good way to preserve all those yellow squash. Your tomatoes are huge! Oh my goodness! The look like trees : ) .....our's don't look so good : ( Saunya  Lovely! It amazes me too, everytime I see our garden at my parents, I can't believe how much it has grown. :) I took garden pictures, but now they are outdated! I have to take some this week and blog about it the same day. LOL :) My dad has killed many of those bugs, they seem to be bad this year... He also sprayed out cucumbers with Rotenone. ~Tanya - mama to 5 :) If you will need it.....I have a yellow squash muffin recipe posted on my blog. Hopefully in the next few days I will be posting pictures/direction for making deli style kosher dill pickles with all of those cucumbers you might have. I can't wait until my jalapeno peppers are ready to make poppers. My husband is gonna be so happy : ) He loves them. I having fun with all this gardening too. Saunya I too have had problems with cucumber beetles in the past, but I got some great advice this year which I put to use, and have to pass on! (I try organic gardening) I was told to plant white radishes with the cucumbers together in the same spot, and I did, and so far my cucumbers look great. I think other radishes would work as well; it seems the bugs hate the radish plants. Last year I had no cucumbers left to make into pickles, but this year I expect too many! Gardening truly *is* addicting. My husband already has plans for more garden beds. Now that the season for fava beans is over we've empied out that bed to make way for some fall/winter plants. It's so much fun having one's own garden! -- Tammy, your garden looks great! I am just in awe of how my own garden is springing up, more and more every day. The squash plants are about ready to take over, and my tomatoes are growing steadily now (after being stunted by the cold weather we had). It's incredible! I can't believe how huge your tomatoes are in such a short time! Wow! You should get a great harvest! Gardening truly is addictive! This is only my second year (but my first year of having my very own garden at my house), and I can't get over how much I love it. I go out every day, just to admire it if nothing else. :) Stephanie Post new comment |
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Spraying a diluted mixture of Dr. Bonner's peppermint soap on the underside of the leaves of plants attacked by bugs (you have to do it every 1-2 days) usually works for me to keep them from devouring the leaves.
Unfortunately, this year slugs ate all of my plants except for the peas and tomatoes. But it's been so cold my tomato plants didn't grow fast enough and I don't think we'll get anything off of them. :(