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The First of Many Peppers and Ears of Corn

Two new vegetables have been picked this past week.  These would include both peppers and corn.  Peppers I picked a few days ago while corn was just recently harvested today.

I have been continuing to pick the usual which includes zucchini, cucumbers, Roma tomatoes, and cherry tomatoes.  Only a few of my steakhouse tomatoes have been harvested this year.  The good news is that the three plants that are growing them have plenty and I am just waiting for them to ripen. (more…)

Gathering More Cherry Tomatoes and Cucumbers

Just another day of harvesting both cucumbers and ripe and red cherry tomatoes.  I have plenty of cherry tomatoes on my plants and I think I will have many more harvests to accomplish in the next few weeks or at least this month.

My cucumbers have been growing quite well and I have picked at least a couple dozen in the past few weeks.  As long as the vines keep growing I should be seeing more cucumbers. (more…)

Transplanting and More Seeds into Rows

The past three days have been quite busy with my plants ready for the ground and seeds that need to be planted as well.  I wanted to get most of my plants in the ground by the weekend and right now I only have a few flowers and a couple squash plants left.

Tomorrow I should finish with all my plants including planting all the seeds needed for a successful garden.  I will be planting some extra seeds of zucchini and pumpkin. (more…)

Update on All Indoor and Outdoor Plants

It’s been awhile since I wrote a post here, but it has been quite busy around here and I want to share with you what has been going on with my garden plants, plants outside, and indoor ones as well.

So far not all of my plants have been outside, but most of my flowers are enjoying the fresh cool air.  Yes it is still a little bit cool which is great for my spinach and onions. (more…)

Indoor Planting of Several Fruits and Vegetables

I have a few things to tell you about that has been happening today.  First off my spinach is staying outside longer and longer and by tomorrow they will be outside for the entire day and night.  This will be a relief because I can soon look forward to finally plant them in the ground.

On another note I have some more seeds starting to sprout and these were the last two that I thought would take a little bit longer to begin with.  Three of my watermelons are showing signs of life and the Queen Anne’s lace has several coming up from the soil. (more…)

Garden Cleanup and Broccoli Harvesting

It has been a while since my last post, but now that the season is pretty much over there is not much to write about.  Luckily I grew a fall crop and my broccoli is starting to come through and I have been harvesting them since the beginning of October.

I also decided that it was time to begin cleaning up the garden.  This means removing my pole bean trellis, digging up roots such as my sunflowers, peppers, eggplants, and many others.  I will probably rake up the loose debris in the garden as well so that I don’t have to do much when the season starts again next year. (more…)

Some More Broccoli, Beans, and Peppers

This week was kind of busy for this time of the year with the harvesting of beans, peppers, and broccoli.  I was not surprised with broccoli because this is the fall season and I expect them to continue growing and flourishing.

I was most surprised with my beans because I thought I had picked the last of them in the previous harvest.  I was going to save the last for seeds, but I noticed that there were actually plenty more to pick.  I made sure that I did leaves some of the large pods on the vines because those will be used for next years seeds. (more…)

Peppers, Broccoli, Eggplants, and Plenty of Rain

It has been quite a while since I wrote a post on this blog.  It has been raining this entire week and there was nothing really to do in the garden except harvesting some peppers when it did stop raining for an hour or two.

I did manage to pick some peppers before all of this rain started and I got the largest harvest for the season.  I did not have time to pick some more beans, but with the cool weather they seem to no longer be growing flowers for more beans.  The ones that are out there I might just use for seeds for next year. (more…)

Weeding Broccoli and More Garden Harvesting

I thought I would wait to write a post once I had finished weeding my broccoli and had some more harvesting to share.  This would include the last cantaloupe, some more peppers, and again more beans.  I also took two days to fully weed my broccoli plants.

After a couple of days of rain I knew that my broccoli would do quite well, but on the other hand the weeds would shoot up like crazy.  That is exactly what happened and I wanted to make sure that they didn’t affect the growth of my broccoli plants. (more…)

Eggplants Picked and Corn Stalks Removed

Now it is time for my eggplants to begin ripening and I should be picking many more of them in the near future.  I only picked two of them so far, but I still have at least five more growing on six different plants.  Some of them have only flowers while others have either one fruit or multiple eggplants.

The bigger eggplant weighed one and a half pounds and the smaller vegetable one pound.  This is an average size for eggplants and I can still make a good size eggplant Parmesan with these two vegetables. (more…)