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| Alee |
Posted - Jul 03 2011 : 06:34:03 AM
I looked at my plants today and I have a couple tomatoes coming on about the size of a grape! I am so excited to see signs of fruit on the vines!! My peppers look like they have little buttons where the flowers were and more flowers coming on. My cabbage is starting to curl into heads and my carrots finally are making an appearance. I might be growing carrots indoors this winter to make up for lost time though!
My corn is a little over "ankle high" maybe 4 inches but putting out those long long leaves. I need to thin the planting. I hate this part of gardening. Maybe I can save the little ones and plant them somewhere else. They aren't quite knee high by fourth of July, but I bet they will be by the middle of the month. They will gain ground pretty quickly once they get going.
I am starting to get a bit optimistic about my harvest this year. This fall I am going to prep the ground and winter sow quite a bit- as much as I can because I am tired of the really delayed harvests because I can't trust greenhouse babies to the wild Montana weather. At least wintersown seedlings will be forced to be hardy and then I can replant any loss.
Alee
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| Alee |
Posted - Jul 09 2011 : 1:40:28 PM
My grape tomatoes are getting ready to turn red I think! They are just a bit smaller than my thumb and the green looked like it was starting to lighten up. I can't wait until they burst out in fruit! I am thinking of transplanting them to a sunnier spot though- they are looking pretty sad.
Alee
Farmgirl Sister #8
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| Heartbroken farmgirl |
Posted - Jul 06 2011 : 8:00:42 PM
Alee, I hate thinning too!! I always feel like I'm murdering a perfectly healthy plant, and it makes me sad!! My carrots had to be thinned and now we are down to three left in the ground! They were good though. First radish planting is eaten up, and second is an inch tall, after resewing only a week ago!! I have maybe 20 grape -golf ball sized tomatoes, and I am having a terrible time deciding if I'm going to let them ripen and eat them, or if I'm going to pick these first green tomatoes soon for my favorite fried food EVER...
I have about 40 huge zucchini, AFTER sharing with neighbours, friends, and family, and my 4 plants show NO sign of slowing down. I'm going to my grandmas on Friday, cuz she loves to can, and we are going to make some sweet zucchini relish.
My bells are finally growing, after four plantings!! No blooms there yet:(, but I'm counting on some soon. My corn is between 3-4' tall now. One corn stalk did something strange though. It grew about 3 1/2' tall, got huge around, and tasseled. It thinks its fully matured, and the highroad of my 5 y/o daughter! I've never had corn do that before. We are curious to see if it produces anything.
Glad your garden is doing so well, let us know how your harvest goes later, k!
The tears I shed then, watered the flowers I harvest now.
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| Alee |
Posted - Jul 03 2011 : 11:28:35 AM
Susan- you are so lucky!! I haven't harvested anything but I think I can get some swiss chard soon!
Alee
Farmgirl Sister #8
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| Cindy Lou |
Posted - Jul 03 2011 : 09:57:39 AM
Alee, I agree its exciting to have the garden making progress. Our tomatoes are just a little bigger than yours. The big garden excitement here is that there was a handful of ripe raspberries yesterday and lots more to come and we now have enough peas to freeze some. Gardening is such a wonderful tie to the earth.
Enjoy your garden!
Susan
"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?"
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