Garden - June 30th

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Summer is well on its way now, and we got another shower today. It is so nice when we get these afternoon showers and I don't have to water every day. I am working on my second plantings of the season in most cases and here is an update on where things are.

Here is a bed of Pink Eye Purple Hull Peas.  They are at 50 days and forming pods now


Here is another bed of the same peas, these are at 11 days


I have high hopes for these 4 squash plants. My first planting didn't do well, but these are doing awesome in my raised bed. Super vigorous and healthy. I already have some baby squash buds at 21 days.


My second planting of Peaches and Cream Corn, this batch is also in a raised bed. It is also doing great. I planted 72 seeds in a 4X8 bed. I hope to get the same output from this 32 sq ft bed vs my previous planting in over 100 sq ft. I think with better soil and easier care I will get more plants with two ears per stalk. The 100 sq ft section produced 85 ears out of 110 seeds planted.

Zucchini Frogger - Can you find him?

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The last few times I picked zucchini I thought I heard something moving around. Well tonight I finally found out what it was and the little guy scared me half to death. I was picking zucchini and right as I had my hands on one to cut, this joker jumps out right onto my hand. It is not that I am afraid of frogs, but when you are not expecting something like that it can really scare you. It happened so fast, I initially thought it was a snake, and boy do I hate snakes.

I bet the little guy got a good laugh, and I did too after my heart rate settled down. I left him down there because he is probably the reason that zucchini plant has done so well. I am sure he loves the huge supply of squash bugs to eat.

I said I want Salsa

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One of my favorite shows of all time is Seinfeld.  I have been watching it for more than 20 years, and I can quote almost every episode.  I thought about this clip for this post

In my quest to make some good homemade salsa, I picked up 3 different tomato plants from the nursery today.  I got one Roma, one Big Boy, and one Better Boy variety.  I am hoping between the three, I will have a good mix of texture and taste for some great salsa.  I also picked up three pepper plants.  I wanted a jalapeno pepper plant, but the only thing they had was something called a cowhorn pepper.  They were cheap so I picked up three of those.  

I weeded my jungle area and amended the soil with cow manure and 10-10-10.  This time I laid some of that black weed fabric and pinned it down.  I cut slits for my plantings and watered everything with some compost tea.

It was a rewarding little project and I hope my little plants thrive.

Soil before working in the manure

 

Area all nice and weeded and ready to go

Weed fabric laid out in planting area

Tomato plants: Big Boy, Better Boy, and Roma

Cow Horn Peppers

Final Results