OMG i’m too excited! i have my first bell pepper from my backyard, and i have my first sweet banana pepper from my frontyard! they’re not quite ripe, not gonna pick ‘em yet even tho i want to. but i’m stoked!
i need to get some fertilizer, and i think i need to get something to support the bell pepper and parsley stalks. the parsley flowered… i don’t think i should have let it do that.
but still, a bell pepper and a banana pepper! this is too cool! i can’t wait to eat ‘em and know that i grew ‘em… they came from my garden – i know exactly what went into these veggies lives… what fertlizer, what pesticides… they’re gonna be so yummy!
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Pepper seedlings are in the dirt, tomato seedlings are getting taller. Definitely planted everything much later than I should have, but hopefully I’ll get a few free veggies out of these plants before the growing season is over.
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I took me awhile, but I ripped up more grass and weeds than I care to remember in preparing the space/home for my vegetables. Below is a list of the stuff I planted (except the leaks … that will happen this week … I hope)
5 Tomatoes plants(a variety)
A purple pepper
a Squash – they require ALOT more space than I realized
Yellow zucchini – same as above
3 cucumbers (2 varities)
?? Leaks
and herbs (a variety)
When do I check this done … I when I start eating?
From seed into starter peat pots, I’ve planted snap peas, cucumbers, squash, radishes, and carrots. Will be doing some lettuces as well, and then will have to find space in the yard to plant the seedlings/peat pots. The snap peas and radishes have already started to sprout!
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lets hope I can keep them alive.
We have two rows of corn in our garden. For some reason, the two stalks at the far end of each row have grown twice as much as all of the other corn. Any ideas why? Is that just the way it goes?
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Weeds – and until they release the grip on the patch I want for my veggies, there will be no veggies for winter!
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