Garden 2010 Week Nine

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Our garden has made it to week nine. Since we don’t know what we’re doing, I’m fairly happy. So far, the radishes are the only real loss. I didn’t thin them out soon enough. In a couple of weeks, I’ll plant a second batch. Hopefully, I’ll do better the second time.

Today, we reined back the tomatoes. They out grew their cages. Now they lived in a tomato prison which is formed with stakes and twine.

We even have our first red cherry tomatoes.

In a week, we could easily be picking tomatoes on a daily basis, at least cherry tomatoes. The other plants are coming along, but by no means are they as prolific as the cherry tomato plant. I’m glad we only planted one. It also makes we wonder why they are so expensive in the store. Each plant produces a lot of tomatoes.

Also in this box, the leeks are ready for us to start to eat. We have one cucumber that is almost ready and lots of itty bitty cucumbers. The eggplant even has one small eggplant. Next year, I’m planting more than one eggplant. I have too much hope riding on this one.

Over in the second box, it is all about climbing stuff.

The beans are growing tall, but have yet to produce beans. I’m not sure what the hold up is. The butternut squash is taking off. I can even find two small squashes starting to form. On the back side the banana squash it taking over the yard.

When I bought the plant, I had no idea it would get so big. I was looking for a second winter squash plant. All I could find in the nursery was the banana squash. It looked small and innocent in the container. Yesterday, I looked up banana squash on the Internet. Apparently, it is a huge plant that produced huge squash ranging between 10-20 lbs. This is what one looks like:

And it is still growing. I’ve also found several other buds that are forming into squash. By the time December rolls around, we’ll be tired of banana squash. Next year, I’m planting something less prolific.

And it the very back of the yard, we have the potato patch.

As near as we can tell, the plants are doing well. They are growing. They should start to flower soon. We didn’t get these into the ground until the beginning of June. So they are a bit behind the curve.

My next garden update will be about eating all the tasty produce.