How does your garden grow?

[rkold]

Today, I awoke to 4 zucchini flowers. I am really really hoping they don't die in the middle of the night. I have a lot of new pea flowers, which is good as I've eaten all the pods I have. I can't figure out if I have kale or broccoli rabe, though both are tasty. I really need to transplant some of the spices and just re-do some of the beds in the first box. Maybe tomorrow.


The peas, they're doing even better now, though they love the netting.


The tallest are sugar snap peas. I believe the next box is more sugar snap peas and finally British Wonder.


The other box, the giant plant in the back taking over is the zucchini


The zucchini and one of the tomatoes. The tiny little plant between them is my eggplant and there is also one radish that came up.


Important moral, zucchinis need a lot of space.


my 6 tiny tomatoes. I prob won't get fruit from them, but I figure everything i grow is good practice for next year!

Comments

[reynardine.livejournal.com]

I love when you post your gardening pics! Very inspirational for me for next year--although I think I'm going to just do containers first. Good luck with those zucchinis!

[rkold.livejournal.com]

Ohh I'm so glad you appreciate the pictures. I am hoping to get a few new ones today as the peas are really taking off. It's too bad you don't really get enough to live on, since peas I am good at. lol

The flowers need to be weeded, again, but I might put it off until Wed. since a lot of that area I plan to dig up in the fall and try to plant bulbs in. However all of the hydrangeas and the lilac I planted seem to be surviving and the bluebells and impatiens are doing surprisingly well. I think only the lilies of the valley I stole from my mom didn't make it.

[twotone]

Woo, looks like the peas are doing great! I feel guilty because I didn't provide enough support for mine (they were supposed to be self-supporting bush-types!) and they ended up wrapping around each other. :/

Yes, Zucchinis need much space! I think when I was growing zucchini at my parents' house, we used a box about that size for our two or three zucchini plants. Everything else was pretty much blotted out.

[rkold.livejournal.com]

I just had to stake the two tomatoes I still have in pots. (which we got from a neighbor vs. the 6 tiny ones which I just don't think are going to make it to that stage. I am thinking of trying to get some pots this week end)

The peas really really like the netting around the boxes, even more so than the strings they are growing around. This of course makes it hard to open the boxes to water them. ~.~ There is soe wrapping around one another, at this point I just want to try to encourage as many pods and flowers as possible. I would highly recommend the sugar snap, they taste delicious, the only negative is as you can see they grow really tall. The British Wonder is denser and shorter.

Yeah they kept talking about boxes and squares and I got confused. It seems a zucchini wants a middle square and you can plant the 7 outer squares, but hahahaha that is not what we did. Luckily the peppers and marigolds never came up so that is a few boxes near them. The one transplanted tomato is not doing very well and once it's tomato reddens it might come out. The other tomato seems to be doing better and the radish needs to come out soon.

I still want to try potatoes at some point. >>;