Here is the garden as taken by Yoel's Blackberry. Fruit/vegetable production is up. We've harvested more green beans, snap peas, lots of spinach (although we've yet to eat any of it), a few fingerling carrots and some basil.
The tomatoes are starting to set! I've counted at least 10 baby Costoluto Genoveses (heirlooms), a few Tumbling Tom (red cherry) tomatoes, a single Chico III (a roma/paste tomato) and tons of blossoms on the other tomatoes: Blondkopfchen (yellow cherry), Green Zebra, Chudo Rinka and what I think is a Ponderosa Pink tomato plant. I also put into the ground: Giant Belgium, Black Cherry and Baby Beefsteak tomatoes.
Cayenne Pepper and Serrano Chili plants look like they are ready to flower soon. Early Jalapeno and Orange Habanero are a bit slower, but catching up.
3 Broccoli heads have started to form. They heads are currently the size of a half dollar. The other 2 plants should be close behind, but if not, that's ok! I'd like to have the harvest spaced out a bit. Next time, I'll plant them a week or two apart.
CANTALOUPE: 1 Cantaloupe has put out several flowers. The other 2 look like they are starting to develop flowers.
CUCUMBERS: We have 6 thriving Cucumber plants. I'm not sure how many cucumbers to expect but perhaps this many is too many for our family. We shall see. They've started to flower and are putting out tendrils, so I've set up a short garden barrier around their squares to encourage them to climb. This should help keep the cukes off the ground.
BEANS: The first planting of beans did not produce nearly enough for our hungry, green bean-loving family so I planted another huge crop of beans a few weeks ago all at the same time. 1 square of Blue Lake Bush Beans were planted about 1 month ago. They have taken off and are starting to crowd out the neighboring squares. I also put in (about 2 weeks later after the single square of Blue Lake Bush Beans):
1 square (9 plants) - Queen Anne Sugar Snaps
2 squares (18 plants) - Contender Bush Beans
2 squares (18 plants) - Legend Bush Beans
2 squares (18 plants) - Purple Podded Pole Beans. I've just added stakes around these squarse so that beans can start climbing up.
2 squares (18 plants) - "Edible Friend" Soybeans. Only about half of these came up so I just replanted the spots where the plants had not emerged with more soybeans.
ZUCCHINI: The zucchini plant looks to be developing at least 3 zucchinis at the moment. I'm curious to find out how this plays out. Does the zuke plant just keeping cranking out the zukes until it gets too cold? Or, does it produce for a few months and then die? I don't know but I suppose I could google it...
I was tired of looking at the empty squares so I decided to fill in the rest of them in with eggplant and peppers. I put 2 Black Beauty Eggplants, 3 Sweet Italian Peppers, and 2 "unknown" eggplants into the open squares. The "unknowns" came from a package of Burpee seeds -- I actually do know what kind they are but they're one of any 4 different varieties that came in that package.
