Tomatoes!

I haven't posted lately! But here are some cute little baby tomatoes! :)

I will do a more in-depth post when more things start to grow haha. We transplanted a lot from the pots to the ground today and the tomato plants got their cages!

:)

--Seana

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 :)

New Plants!

Yesterday I went to Acme and they had some vegetable plants outside, so I got a couple. Here's a really bad photo haha:

 It was taken with my phone in the dark haha, sorry. But anywho, I got a grape tomato plant, a jalepeno pepper plant, and another tomato plant that doesn't say what kind it is, but it's 'high yielding' which is always a plus to me.

We've always bought tomato plants, never planted them from seeds, and since we couldn't go to our usual plant sale this year, I just went ahead and got the Acme ones.

Well, I suppose that's about it!

-Seana :)

Still not much is happening...

The cucumbers as well as the tomatoes and red peppers are flowing in like no one's business...But everything else is on a halt. I think that those three things might be it for the summer; nothing else seems to want to produce! Except maybe the string beans...But we'll have to see about those!

Here are some pickles me and my mom made: 

They're more on the sweet side, and I don't really like sweet pickles, so we're going to try a dill recipe as well. They're a huge hit in our house though, everyone else who has tried them loves them! 

Here are some of the tomatoes:

A squirrel (or some kind of stinker) keeps going after the roma tomatoes! We've only lost two so far, but they were pretty low on the plant, so I'm hoping we don't lose many more...The roma ones are my favorite. The pear ones are good, but a bit sour for my liking, and the plum tomatoes (the two pictured behind the roma in the front are our first ones!) are a bit bland compared to the roma. They're still good with some salt and pepper though!

And here's a little bug that I found up in the front yard near the flower bed that I thought was cool!:

I've never seen a bug like that before! I especially like it's colors :)

Well that's pretty much it...Sadly I don't have much else to post about. But so I have some material for the fall, what are some good vegetables to grow in the fall in the Pennsylvania area?

Thanks for reading!

--Seana

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

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