grow my own vegetables

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!

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.

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!

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?

Weeds – and until they release the grip on the patch I want for my veggies, there will be no veggies for winter!

We picked some of the greenbeans that were ready to go. They look wonderful. I ended up vacuum sealing them and putting them in the freezer. The first round of cilantro has also been ready, and we’ve been using it in salsa. Now if only the tomatoes, jalapenos, and serranos were ready. :)

so far not so good. I have two tomato plants in pots on our deck ( grown from seed and given to me from a friend ). Some celantro and rosemary in pots. A pumpkin growing over at the vineyard. Some old raspberry bushes, ummmmmmmm. A zuchinni plant ready to be planted in something bigger than what it is in :(. And a huge plot , really really big that I have let the 100 acre field take over. Not sure if I can muster up the energy to plant anything!

well scince my last entry ive had no time to spend on my allotment because ive started a new job. and i pulled the radishes up to thin them out and was informed half way through re-planting that they wont grow once they have been removed. well i left the ones i did put back and have eaten the ones that were ready to eat, wich were nice. I have a lot of weeding to do and i cant keep the birds off the broccoli (wich is coming on niceley) but time is not on my side as i only have weekends off and am busy for the next two. everything else is coming on aswell, the plums have started to appear and the blackcurrants are starting. i just need some time from somewhere to get back on track.