This Weeks Garden Update

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I haven't been in the garden much the past few days. Friday I had a High School Graduation to go to and Saturday was spent at the Sunset "Celebration Weekend 2009" with my sister. No real highlight at the "Celebration". We had fun checking things out and signing up to win free trips and cars. Oh sis did win a two night stay in Carson City NV on a wheel spin.. I won a pen...Ha!

Today I watered and had a few things to cut back. After that Hubby and I went to the driving range to get some swinging and putting practice in. I haven't played golf yet this year. I didn't do too bad for not picking up my clubs since last Novemeber.

Now for some garden photos taken this week... Click on the photos for a larger view.

Photo Below: June 4th Harvest. The raspberries came in at 8 oz's (106 berries)



Photo Below: June 6th Harvest. The baby carrots were so good!



Not pictured: On June 7th I picked 1 English cucumber, 1 round zucchini and 5 oz's of raspberries.

Photo Below: Yellow bush beans.



Photo Below: The sungold cherry tomatoes are starting to ripen.



Photos Below: The next 4 photos are of the cucumbers. There's about 12 of them right now and more coming.









Photo Below: I have one runt bell pepper that hasn't grown since I planted it. It's trying so hard to put out a few buds. I may pull it and put some more carrots in. My peppers look great and I have lots of buds but I don't have any fruit on the full size peppers and only 4 on the baby peppers.



Photo Below: The pumpkins are getting bigger. Can't wait to make pumpkin pie!



Photo Below: The nasturtium is growing up into the spaghetti squash.



Photo Below: The watermelons are not doing much of anything. I am getting flowers but more male than females. I think they will be a bust.



Photo Below: Ok now this last photo was taken on June 3rd. I was watering the tomatoes and uncovered this with the water. It's organic from what I can tell and the little black pod like things in there look to be seeds but I couldn't tell. At first I thought it was some sort of hive but I didn't see anything crawling or flying out of it. I removed it and see more "growing" in the bed. Has anyone ever seen anythng like this before?

Lots of Photos Not Many Words

Saturday I gave everything a deep watering since we were going to have temps in the upper 80's low 90's this weekend. Before watering I took some photos.

Photos Below: The banana tree puts out a new leaf about every two weeks.



I was pleasantly surprised to see a banana pup poking out of the soil.



Photos Below: Bed 1 Tomatoes.





Photos below: Bed 2



Baby cucumber



Corn



English cucumber



Itty bitty teeny weeny watermelon.



Nasturtiums in bed 2.



Photos Below: bed 3



The basil is doing well.



Canteloupe



Mini Bell Pepper



Photos below: Baby spinach in bed 2.





Photos Below: Bed 4



Photo Below: EG over at Our Engineered Garden asked me how I was going to keep the zucchini from over taking the bush beans... well this is what I came up with... White wrought iron fence.





The butterhead lettuce is just about ready to pick.



Photo Below: Round Zucchini in bed 4.



Photo Below: Onions, lettuce, bush beans and carrots.



Onions and garlic.



Photo Below: The spinach "Oriental Giant" in bed 4 has bolted. I'm going to try this one again in the Fall. It was very good.



Photo Below: The spaghetti squash is getting bigger.



Photo Below: This bush bean thinks it a pole bean...



Photos Below: Bush bean blooms.





Photo Below: Nasturtium bloom.



Photo Below: Slugs like pumpkin on a stick.



Photos Below: Strawberry bed.

Corn

I planted my first square of Bon Jour Early Bicolor Sweet Corn (Renee's Garden seeds) in Bed 2 today. I'll be planting a total of 12 squares with four in each. I have my next set of four started in the greenhouse and should be able to plant them outside in the next few days. I will start four seeds every fews days until I have enough to fill all 12 squares. I hope I have the timing down so we will have 2 to 4 corn ripen a few days apart.

When I picked up one of the pots the roots were growing out of the bottom.



Welcome to your new home.



Row cover to keep pests out.



Random photos in the greenhouse...

The watermelon seems to be struggling a bit.
The nasturtiums is ready to be planted out in the garden.



Cucumber are growing better now that it has warmed up.



The winter squash has just about out grown it's 4 inch pot. I may need to pot up one more time before planting out into Bed 4 which still doesn't have full sun.