Garden Update Two

I haven't posted in awhile, but I have to tell you that I am stunned by the progress our tomatoes have made since being planted in the garden about a week ago. As you know, we've had quite a bit of trouble growing our tomatoes from seed and they were growing so slowly. They weren't even to the recommended size of about six inches tall when they were planted. Well, since then they have all become quite a bit more leafy and grown taller. We planted them all up to the first set of true leaves, so they were each only about an inch off the ground. Now they are all consistently two and three inches off the ground. In just one week! You can see an image of a Yellow Pear tomato plant above. I can't wait to see the progress that they make in the next little bit.



Our Musquee de Provence pumpkins germinated in their mounds. We had three come up in one and one in the other. Yesterday, however, we went outside to notice that two of the squash in the mound of three were gone. I have no idea what would prey on squash plants, but at least we still have two left. Any ideas?



We planted a lot of the lettuce from the trays into the garden too, because they were overcrowding; over fifty plants in fact. I don't really know what we were thinking having so many plants, but we have the room so why not? Anyway, we have lots of people we can give some to if we can't eat it all. The above image is of the deer tongue lettuce (we think).

Our peppers have been in the garden about a week and a half and I fear we have already lost a few. I think they were too small to hold up to the heat perhaps. The good thing though is that I noticed the first hint of new growth on many of them, so hopefully they're becoming more established and we'll still end up with some success.




By the way, our replanting of radishes in the main garden has been a success! Yesterday we harvested our first three French Breakfast of the bunch.

Jennifer