Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Today in the Garden

Its amazing how much taller the corn has gotten in just a few weeks. Last year we only got two ears of corn....this year I think we'll get at least 4 or 5.....enough for a meal.

These are the brussel sprout seedlings I started a month or so ago and just transplanted.

Finally! A decent head of lettuce. My last crop got killed by our extreme heat. Its going to be hot again this week so I may need to harvest this one soon, even though its still on the small side.

My butternut squash plant never did much.....just some leaves and a few blooms but no squash.....sad.

Italian Parsley on the left; new lettuce seedlings where I replaced the lettuce that the heat killed on the right; in the middle is the cucumber vine that decided to climb over the fence.

No, its not weeds! Just large herb plants: lavendar, kale, thyme and basil.

About a week ago I almost lost my garden when a car in my neighbor's yard came barreling through the fence. That entire section of fence flattened my herbs, but thankfully they are pretty resilient.

Our first pumpkin! Right now its about the size of an apple. I see more coming, too, that are currently about the size of ping-pong balls.

1 comment:

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