in the garden a' weedin'
June 10 pictures of the garden are here. See how everything has grown!
Update! July 4, 2007: This is an exciting time of year. Sousa marches, fireworks, parades... But the best part of all is going to the garden and finding little veggie babies!
My fellow gardeners at work are totally baffling me-- they never harvest their vegetables (last year or this year). One of them has a zucchini the size of a baseball bat out there right now. And the tomatoes that rot on the vine! It takes everything in my power not to take them and eat them myself. Anyway, here's my lineup:
TA-DAH! It's the zebra tomato. There are others in the works, but this guy's my favorite so far!
Babies having babies! I was really tempted to pinch off the flowers so that this plant would grow a bit more before putting on fruit. But I didn't have the heart to do it, and now it has this redonkulous eggplant nearly as tall as itself.
Sunflower! These grow SO fast! I should have put some in my yard.
Zucchini. In a month, this plant has grown from a wee sprout to about 4 feet in diameter!
Chard! So pretty. So chomp-able.
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On the left: beets. Only a few of them germinated. I'm no Mose Schrute.
On the right: The most sincere pumpin patch around.
Problem Plants
OK, here's a plant that overwintered from last year. It was from my former co-worker's garden, so I'm not sure what it is. It looks like kale, but I don't remember her planting any kale. Anyone recognize it?
Sweet banana pepper. Don't know if you can see this, but this plant is PACKED with leaves coming directly off of the stem. There are no flowers. Too much nitrogen, or totally normal? Don't know.
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Here's my gold nugget and "health kick" tomato plants. These two are not really growing, but not dying either. It's odd because the other tomatoes are doing well, and the health kick has the (theoretically) best spot in the whole garden (sunniest, away from other plants' roots).
So it goes...