New seeds planted!

Me and my mom did quite a bit in the garden today! We still have more to do but we're saving that for tomorrow. Unfortunately, we had to plant a lot of seeds really late because we had no where to put them, but today, we planted corn, broccoli, carrots and we moved some mild jalepenos that we have growing in pots into the ground.

Here is the corn:

And here are the peppers we moved:

The other stuff we planted was too small to photograph.

But aside from that, we also weeded (is that a word?) EVERYTHING. There are now tomatoes on all three plants, which I didn't get to take pictures of because I didn't have my phone of my camera on me at the time. The bell peppers are moving slowly but surely. There are two little tiny babies on there. The red hot chili peppers are going crazy. They're big enough now, we're just waiting for them to turn red. 

The leaf lettuce is ready to be thinned out, which is going to be done tomorrow, along with planting cauliflower, some more onions, strawberries, and asparagus. We're also putting the watermelon plants in the ground tomorrow. The green beans and peas seem to be doing fine. The remaining iceberg is doing okay too, but we're going to plant some more tomorrow to make up for the ones we lost from the rain. 

The cucumbers are growing like crazy. We've already pulled four and eaten them in the last three days, and we pulled quite a few to make pickles with last night. We're going to be making them tomorrow, also. So we've still got plenty to do, but the garden is coming along nicely! I guess that's all for now!

--Seana

Rain Rain Go Away :(

Hi everyone. Yesterday we had some really bad storms here. They ended up flooding the iceberg lettuce and quite a bit of it died :( I'm hoping the rest will be okay the next time it rains. It didn't hurt much else though. They were the smallest things in the garden; they'd just began to sprout. 

On a happier note though, I have a bunch to update on. Pretty much everything in the garden has made progress since the last time I posted. The bell pepper hasn't done much, but there is another flower:

But none of the other plants have flowers yet =/

The cucumbers are getting big still:

I'm guessing in just a couple more days, it will be the size I want! :) For the last week or so, we've been noticing that our cucumber plants are growing into our neighbors yard. She said she wouldn't mind but the guy who does her lawn might cut them off, so I figured we should probably move them back so they were only up against our fence. I did about half of them, but sadly I accidentally broke quite a few tendrils that were wrapped around the fence. I hope I didn't do too much damage =/ 

I also found this really weird bug on one of the stems:

It looks like one of those wishy flowers! It was so fuzzy that I couldn't even believe it was a bug...I'm thinking it's some kind of caterpillar because of they way it moved. I didn't move it, which was probably a terrible idea, but I HATE caterpillars. Just taking this picture made me cringe. I definitely didn't want to touch it. I'm going to do some research and if it's harmful to the plants, I'll find someone else to remove it. Does anyone else know what it could be?

The leaf lettuce is really shaping up! It's actually starting to look like lettuce:

So that's exciting.

The peas are all up too:

They're doing well. 

As well as the green beans:

I'm actually surprised at how big they are by now!

The red hot chili peppers are also doing well. These are the two biggest ones:

 But there are a bunch of those all over :)

And last but not least!:

3 little baby tomatoes! I was so worried that these weren't going to do anything and then these little guys showed up! These are the beefsteak; the others don't have any tomatoes yet. But they DO have flowers! 

Well, I think that's it. I need to work on making these posts a little shorter :) Sorry!

--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