Plant Update

Hiiii :)

Yesterday we planted some stuff in the ground. Also, a lot of stuff is coming up from the pots! Here are some pictures:

 Here's the corn, there's a lot more today!!

And these are the peas. There are also a lot more of these!

We didn't want to plant corn in a pot, we wanted to do it directly in the ground, but when we planted them in the pots, we didn't have a place for them in the ground yet. But we do now, so they'll have a nice home when they outgrow the pot! :)

 Tomatoes!

 And more tomatoes...

Peppers!

 The little patch on the left is onions, and there's also some onions in between the tomatoes.

 Tomatoes again!

Annnddd there's everything together. Yesterday was generally a productive day in the garden! :)

--Seana :)

A bunch of progress :)

I've been away from my garden for two days and I feel like I've been away for weeks! My mom has been watering it and everything, but usually I'm the one to keep track on progress of the plants so when I went out this morning, I was very happy and surprised with all the progress I found!

First of all, four more of the watermelon seeds are up (only two new ones pictured; the others are in different pots):

The one to the far right is the one I posted about a couple days ago. It's gotten really big already so that's exciting.

The iceberg lettuce has already sprouted:

Along with a bunch of new weeds that you can see in the bottom right corner =/ But the lettuce is exciting!

As well as that, the leaf lettuce is not only getting bigger, but there's a TON of it now:

So that's always fun :)

Also, VERY excitingly, in the two days I was gone, one of the bell pepper plants grew a flower AND lost it, and now the first bell pepper is growing!:

Maybe I should go away more often ;)

There are a whole bunch of red hot chili peppers now:

I can't wait to taste these guys :)

And last but not least:

This cucumber has gotten huge. Probably about the size of an average dill pickle.There's another one about this size on the same plant, and then the rest of them are about the size that this one was when I first posted about it, which is still pretty big! I'm really excited for these, and I cannot WAIT to taste this cucumber as soon as it's ready to be pulled! (Which should be soon, judging by how fast it's grown already!)

The tomatoes also have a bunch of new flowers. No tomatoes yet though :( That's okay though. They'll be here soon enough. I saw a couple little sprouts starting to come up in the peas and string beans but they aren't all the way out yet! Well, I think that's it for now!

--Seana

New seeds planted & a pepper update!

Hello, hello :)

We planted some new seeds/roots today, so I figured I'd share!

First of all, we planted three strawberry roots in this window pot:

We have a few more to plant but we're not sure where were putting them yet.

We also planted peas: 

Green beans:

And Iceberg Lettuce:

They should all be germinated within the next two weeks, so we'll definitely be looking out for that. Also, we're going to look into mulching to stop the weeds. (Thanks for that suggestion, Robin!)

On another quick little note; look at all the baby peppers! (They're kind of hard to see...):

I'm so excited for these :)

The tomatoes have flowers and the bell peppers have blossoms, but sadly, they haven't been doing much lately. I know a lot of tomatoes don't come out until later in the summer, but does anyone know how long bell peppers are supposed to take?

Well, that's all for today :)

--Seana

Introduction to my garden :)

Like I've stated, we don't have much room in our yard. But here's a little look into what we've come up with.

We have three cages of tomatoes; Roma, Pear, and Beef Steak:


We bought these at a plant sale when they were teeny tiny. They've gotten pretty big since then. You can't tell in this picture, but there are flowers on all three plants. They probably aren't spaced far enough, but like I said, we don't have much room, and they're doing fine :)


Next is our one lonely Red Hot Chili Pepper plant:




I found this little tiny pathetic looking plant at Walmart while looking for garden fences...I wasn't planning on buying any plants there, but this was about the only one there that wasn't dead and I kind of felt bad for it. It's bigger now, with two peppers already growing and plenty of little flowers blooming :) If anyone knows how big they should be before I pull them, let me know :)


These are some onions that we planted from bulbs:

There weren't a lot, so we just placed them around in the garden. We realize now that this probably wasn't the best idea because while some are doing pretty good, there are some that are looking pretty sad :( Next time we plant them, we're going to plant them all in one section with equal amounts of sun.


We also bought three bell pepper plants from that plant sale I mentioned:


Here's one of them. They haven't made a ton of progress but there are a couple buds on them. As you can probably tell, the garden needs to be weeded in that area pretty badly so I'm going to get to that shortly. (Even though I did it just a few days ago!) You can also see a few onions that aren't doing too well :( Not far enough in the ground is my guess.


And last but not least (that's made enough progress to post about), cucumbers!:

These guys are the most exciting to me because we planted them from seed. Now they have little baby cucumbers on them! And they're so cute :)

The flowers are really pretty too:


This is the only thing I'm worried about:


Is it a cucumber disease? It's only on some of the leaves...Could it possibly just be too much water or something? I don't know, but it's worrying me. It's not like, fuzzy or anything, it's just discoloration. There aren't any holes. I'm really hoping they're okay :(

Other than that, they're training up the fence nicely:


There are about half of the plants pictured, there are more to the right. (You can also see the onions! Sadly they aren't the very good ones and it probably wasn't very smart to plant them so close to the cucumbers...) The first cucumber plant is especially tall, but the rest of them are coming along nicely too! Mostly all of them have flowers by now. It's very exciting :)

We have some mild jalepenos in pots, as well as some kiwis from a fruit that may not actually bear fruit, but we figured it's worth a shot to try. We planted some watermelons yesterday and they should be visible in about a week :) We also have plenty more seeds to plant, even though it's a little bit late in the season.

Well, that's our garden so far!

--Seana