The Vegetable Garden - July 8, 2012

The vegetable garden is doing quite well considering that the weeds are trying to take over.  So far, I am winning the battle, but only time will tell who wins the war.  Another challenge this year is a huge lack of rain.  It is only the first week of July and I am already having to put the sprinklers on the garden ever night, hoping that it will be enough.  The final challenge that has reared it's head since I last posted is woolly aphids on the potatoes.  But I will do a separate post on these little critters.

Take a look at how things are growing!

Zucchini flowers and a baby zucchini!

There are lots of tomato flowers and every plant has little tomatoes!

Pepper flowers and a jalapeno pepper!  No sweet peppers yet, but they were later to start flowering.

Carrots and Onions.

Potato plants and potato flowers!  

Cucumber flowers, but no baby cucumbers yet.

Soon it will be fresh lettuce from the garden for salads!

The Vegetable Garden - June 19, 2012

Despite being full of weeds when we got home from our weekend of camping, the vegetable garden is doing well.

Lettuce and beets are coming a little more slowly than some years, but they are both in the shadier end of the garden.  The shade doesn't seem to be bothering the swiss chard and kale though!

Cucumbers and zucchini are growing like crazy, even the cucumbers that were slow to come up are catching up with the rest.

Tomatoes and peppers all seem to have had a huge growth spurt recently!

Carrots and onions are continuing to grow steadily.

And the potatoes are growing like mad!  I can not believe how big they are getting and how quickly!  I can almost taste fresh fried potatoes! 

Don't look at the weeds, but you can see the little rows of soon to be salad!

Jalapeno Pepper flower!

Roma Tomato.

Tomato Flower.

Potatoes . . . if they keep growing like this they won't be plants, they will be trees!