Saturday, July 31, 2010

Garden update 2 weeks old

Alright I haven't done a very good job keeping up with the garden progress. Here's what it looked like 2weeks ago just after we put up the trelli for the tomatoes. Some of the plants are now above the middle support. Maybe I'll get a more recent picture up some day.

Sunday, July 11, 2010

Garden stuff

The garden is looking pretty good. We've finally got warm weather-this past week several days it was at or near 30. The tomatoes and lettuce are really happy about that. The lettuce was growing at least an inch every day it was that warm.
But this kind of heat is the end of the peas-there are still lots on the vines ripening but I think they'll be done by the end of the week. This year we planted Sugar Snap peas and I'm really happy with them, they are powdery mildew resistant and produce tons. They're much bushier than the Super Sugars that we planted last year and didn't grow at tall but I think the output is pretty much the same.


I finally started pruning the tomatoes yesterday, some of the suckers were pretty huge but they're all gone. After seeing how well pruned tomatoes performed last year, I'm only allowing each plant to have one vine. Last year I let some have 2 or 3 vines which I don't think improved yield but did make for more crowded plants. I'm pretty happy with the state of the tomatoes but we are at least 2 weeks behind where we were last year-combination of our cold spring/early summer and the damage to the seedlings while we were out of town. Oh well we're getting blossoms now on a lot of the plants, just no baby tomatoes yet. Thairo built the rest of the trelli yesterday but forgot his shovel in the field so we'll have to put them up next weekend.

Wednesday, July 7, 2010