Monday, July 18, 2011

Holy Tomatoes Batman!

Our tomato plant is getting huge! We've counted approximately 30 tomatoes on it. Unfortunately all that extra weight sent two main stalks crashing down. I was able to retie the stalks to our metal fence posts to hold it up. It appears we've managed to escape with no damage. The tomato plant is getting so large it's beginning to overcrowd and slow down the growth of the plants around it. We've harvested our first squash and zucchini this week, and continue to harvest a handful of beans every few days. We have approximately 6 green peppers that are ready to harvest within a week.

Our salad box is now filled and being wetted and mixed up for planting this week!





Sunday, July 3, 2011

Fall Growing Plans

Here is our fall planting and Salad box plans:

Salad Box


Veggie Box




Beans!

We have beans! And lots of em. We have a handful to harvest every day. We have two pencil eraser sized tomatoes now growing. We've harvested the last of our broccoli and cauliflower this week. We harvested our first green pepper today, and have at least 10 growing. We also have a nice sized jalapeno that we'll be harvesting soon to enter into the brother vs. brother hot pepper competition. After a ton of flowering by the zuccini and squash, we now have squash and zuccini just starting to grow as well. We're also slowly getting the salad box setup for the fall.