Saturday, August 13, 2011

Welcome to the jungle!!! Mid August in the garden

I took a couple of pictures of the garden today to show the growth of some of the plants. The beans are too tall for Heather to pick now. The cucumbers and squash are hiding out to where we can't see them until they're huge (I may need to space things out a little more next year). The beans are too close together also because the beans are just a little too sparse.

I have a couple of tomato plants that aren't doing so well. I don't know if they are diseased, aren't getting sufficient water, determinate, or something else. I'm not very good at diagnosing problems yet.
Without further explanations, here are the pictures. Comparing them to last month's, I can definitely see some major growth. Remember, the cross members on my trellises are at least 8' high (I just measured to double check).
Straight shot down the two tomato rows.

Side view of the tomatoes. Two of the plants on the left side aren't doing so hot. See the three empty rows in front of the tomatoes? I pulled the onions and peas up and put sweet potato slips in the onion row and salad stuffs in the peas' rows.

This is our fence of pumpkin. Kind of difficult to see, but there are two large pumpkins (princess pumpkins) tied up to the fence with row covers for support. See the trellises for corn and beans on the left? Very tight squeeze to pick them.

Here's a bad shot of the okra we have growing with the sweet potatoes and Tigger Melons.

Our fence of cucumbers on the left, watermelon on the right with Tigger Melons and other winter squash creeping in on the right. On the left in front are purple potatoes of which I dug up a couple of plants to create access to the cucumbers. They were awfully small still.

Our corn and beans with the okra in the foreground.

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