Weekly Update: July Week 2

I already mentioned in my previous post that the eggplants have started to ripen like crazy. I started picking them before they get too big so we can spread out the harvest in a consumable fashion and also to keep the plants from being overloaded. They are literally PACKED.My big discovery this week is that the plants have very SHARP thorns at the top on the stems. When in bloom they look like little brown hairs all over the base of the bud. As the...

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New This Week: July week 2

This weekend was extremely busy, so just a really quick garden update! The harvest continues to roll in with the first ripe tomatoes, a cucumber, jalapenos, a ton of eggplant, more beans, and soybeans. The big pile on the right side is soy beans. There's just over a pound of them there. That will be our one and only crop for this year. You harvest the entire plant at one time. They don't keep bearing like the bush beans and peas. In the center of...

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Weekly Update: July Week 1

The cherry tomatoes are beginning to ripen... and there are other encouraging signs of good things to come! I spent some time trying to reign in both the cherry tomatoes and the cucumbers, both have gone just absolutely CRAZY in their prospective locations.I seem to have a minor aphid/white fly attach underway on the bush tomatoes, so I spent some time trying to spray them down with some natural deterrent. I'm hoping that takes care of it for the...

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New This Week: July week 1

This week was marked by the BIGGEST harvest yet. So big in fact that I'm just going to post one large photo rather than individual snapshots:Clockwise from the top left:Peas - Some of them got a bit too big... hiding out in behind the eggplants.Bell Pepper - First one of the season! A very big and lovely looking pepperTomatoes - First of the season! Two are ripe... the third one isn't (obviously) but I accidentally knocked it off while trying to...

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Weekly Update: June Week 5

I really enjoyed being able to spend time out in the garden this week since I took the week off for vacation. This is the first year since I bought the house that I haven't had a major remodel project underway the week of the 4th of July, and it was really nice just to be able to relax and enjoy life! That said, I did find time for a small projects.One of those projects was sanding and repainting of the siding on the front of the house which had...

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New This Week: June Week 5

Lots happening as we finally got a break in the weather! We didn't end up with any tomatoes ripe in time for the fourth, but we did get another big bunch of green beans and of course a never ending flow of peas. Yum!New this week, the first harvest of banana peppers, a couple of them are pretty big:This is the first year I've grown them, so I wasn't exactly sure how to decide when to harvest, but everything I read said to go ahead and pick them as...

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