Garden Overview

It hasn't been too long since we last gave a garden update, but it's surprising to us to see how much the growth of our garden has progressed. There have been a few changes since we last posted, including the planting of some new plants and seeds, and the fact that a lot of our plants are really taking off. (By the way, please ignore the weeds in all of the pictures. It's difficult to stay on top of weeding the garden the majority of the time.)

As you know, Jennifer and I lost a number of tomato seedlings. As a result, we had a big gap in our garden where nothing was growing. We decided to buy two hot banana pepper plants, and two pots of crookneck squash plants. There were about five crookneck squash plants in total.

Jennifer also planted some butternut squash seeds. We had bought a butternut squash at the grocery store for a pizza recipe and Jennifer came up with the idea of planting the seeds from it. Our patty pan squash never came up, so we planted the seeds in their place. Surprisingly, there are many plants coming up. We have two mounds with plants, which I suspect we will be thinning soon.
Our Musquee de Provence plants are doing fantastic. They are growing quite big and really taking off in this summer heat. It looks like they will be blossoming soon, and with that I hope we will have many pumpkins setting soon. The picture below is just one plant of two.

Our tomato plants are kind of small for their varieties, but very sturdy. I'm shocked at how far they've come. I must confess that I had some doubts about whether we would end up with any surviving tomato plants, even when we first started thinking about growing vegetables from seed back in January. All of the plants have blossoms, and some of the Yellow Pear tomato plants already have tomatoes setting. Unfortunately, I didn't manage to get any good-quality pictures to show you, so that will have to wait until another time.

Lastly, we had planted some beets directly into our garden and they are finally beginning to mature. Have a look at what I think might be a Chioggia beet in the picture below.


Megan