Thursday, June 24, 2010

Another busy week

Well, it has been busy and not so much with the garden. Actually the garden is starting to slow down for the summer. The squash is about done (no help from some kind of sudden wilt disease.) The Roma tomatoes and Razzleberry tomatoes which were both determinate types are finishing up. The cherry and yellow are starting a second try after a bout with leaf foot bugs as well as spider mites. Eggplant is going slow and the 'pumpkin on a stick' is starting to change color. About the only things doing really well right now are the cucumber (it is massive) and the peppers. The bush beans are sort of 'hanging out' not doing too much, I think it is just too hot and the watermelon might actually flower. The last batch of corn is silking and hopefully I will be looking at harvest end of next week. Basil is doing well, dill is seeding out and the lavender is flowering.
So what to do? Start planting seeds for the fall. You start planting mid/end of July for the fall garden so the seeds need to start now. I am also trying corn by transplant to get a better stand for the next three groups.
So far this is what is planted. (I will get variety names later)
6 kinds of summer squash
1 kind of winter squash (and 1 type still to be planted)
6 types of tomatoes (Most are small types, no razzleberries or anything large, mainly grape/cherry types of various colors.)
Corn (when this is transplated then I will start a new batch)
Sunflowers (3 types)

To be planted (some when the seeds get here, some in about a month)
Another type of eggplant
Soybean
3 types of peppers
Pole beans (need to make the trellises)
Other stuff as well (can't remember right now)

Also, the plants do not like the city water, which I think is part of the problem. Oh well, it is either that or nothing. I do have some rain water but I do not have the type to hand water and I use that water to fertilize.

Peach tree is starting to show signs of maturing. And I am down to my last two ornamental pepper plants to sell at farmers.

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