square foot garden update 2

Our garden has grown a lot this last week - we had lots of rain and warm nights.

• squash and cucumbers are getting big - now I have to figure out how to vine them.
• tomatoes have doubled in size again.
• tomatoes and peppers have flowers about to open
• my parsley all has some seeds sprouting
• I had to tie twine around all of my bush beans as they are getting tall and starting to fall over into other boxes (primarily only the tongue and fire but I did the rest as well)
• the pole green beans are growing fast and vining well
• both nasturtiums had flowers bloom
• my eggplant has a bud on it about to open
• my peppers have shown a lot of growth and gotten dark green
• my swiss chard has started to grow and I think I am going to harvest my lettuce before it gets too hot and then plant some more green beans or radishes.
• you can see our hanging tomatoes and pepper plant - the nasturtiums and basil have sprouted on top.
  

My apple tree has shown lots of new growth this week. I wish I had a picture of what it looked liked last week...

Our Square Foot Garden update

After and interesting March and April, my garden finally seems to be showing signs of growth (and we have gotten to eat some sugar snap peas.

In March I through that we were doing good when a lot of my seeds starting sprouting...and then we had a cold front around March 29th and April 6th where it went down to 32.

For the most part my seeds survived; I replaced a few, I made the choice to replace my tomato plants and some of my pepper plants. I wanted to make sure I had those.

In the middle of April the first pea flowers came and we got to eat a few of the sugar snap peas in our salads. Lord willing in the Fall we will have more of them.

My pole beans are starting to send out their tendrils, my basil is looking really good and growing well (even from seed), my chives have sprouted and another cilantro will sprout soon. My Eggplant looks like it is doing well.


My box of tomatoes, peppers, beans, morning glories, thyme, green onions, marigolds, nasturtium, parsley and basil.

My squash and cucumbers came up this week along with some of the beet seeds I planted with the beets that I had planted already. My lime balm is looking much better than it did and the nasturtium is continuing to grow, no flowers on it yet. My basil that I transplanted for some reason looks really poor in this box, but the seeds are popping up and looking good.

My tomatoes have gotten tall (I keep pruning the bottom branches to make it easier when I attempt to vine them. There are still pea flowers and peas forming, but I imagine the heat will be pretty bad soon, so I'll pull those in a few weeks and plant something else.


In this box I have tongue and fire, pinto beans and lima beans. I also have radishes, chamomile, cilantro, stevia and two bell pepper plants. I planted another box of green beans, dill, tongue and fire beans and chamomile.


Here is the box we had broccoli, onions spinach and swiss chard in. I pulled a lot of the broccoli (that never formed any heads). I am seeing if they will form heads in the Fall, based on research, there is a possibility. The broccoli has really shot up since the weather has been more consistent. There is Summer Savory, Montezuma red beans and a jalapeno plant in there.


This box has bell peppers, jalapeno peppers and two garden salsa plants. I have also planted Montezuma red beans (that you can see) and green beans. I planted some radishes that are starting to sprout, more Montezuma red, pinto and tongue and fire beans. I also have dill, oregano, swiss chard, parsely that I planted from seed and transplanted (which is not doing to well).