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Garden check in
I was going to put this in randoms, but there isn't one.
How is everyone's garden doing?
Some of our tomato plants are taller than I am! I planted only 3 plants, but some of ours reseeded from last year. So, we have about 10 plants instead.
I picked a zucchini just now that's huge! I've been waiting for a cooler day to bake zucch. bread.
Willa 4.6.06 and Henry 10.18.08
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Re: Garden check in
My garden looks pretty good--it's 98% container--but we haven't seen much produce yet.
I have 14 tomato plants, 13 of which I started from seed. Woot! They're beautiful. Lush and green and full... but only one has *just* started to show any fruits (teensy tiny ones) and it's not the one I planted. It's from the co-op.
Our bean plants aren't as fruitful as last year, which bums me out. I tried two new varieties this year, from Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds, in the same spot as my old-seed bush beans grew well last summer, but they produce maybe one bean every few days and the plants look sickish in general.
We got a pickling cucumber plant from my sister for C's birthday, and got a little one off of that already; it was bitter.
My squash (also from sis) showed a promising bulb or two, but they've since shriveled and turned yellow before they got bigger than a marble. My carrots are sprouting. Basil (from the farmer's market) is kind of hanging on but mostly straggling along.
I put more beans in a few different locations yesterday; I think last year I planted late, so maybe I'm just expecting too much too soon.
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My raspberry plants have been doing great this year, which is exciting. For the first time ever, I got enough berries to bake a pie.
My tomato plants are doing pretty well. I've picked three tomatos so far.
Beans are doing good too.
Basil is doing well. I've made two batches of pesto.
The cucumber plant is confusing me. It's been growing like mad... seriously, it's huge. And it's developed a ton of flowers. But it's not bearing fruit. I picked one small one yesterday, and there may be a few more coming. But overall, the flowers aren't leading to cukes. My master-gardner-cousin told me to pollinate the flowers myself using a q-tip. I'm going to try it tonight.
My mouth is watering!! Yum.
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My raspberries aren't blooming, either! I forgot about them; they're a big mass of healthy-looking green, but again: no fruits.
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Kate our raspberries have been underwhelming too. We got maybe 10 berries this year. This is some info that helped me:
A: Raspberry plants produce biennial canes, which means that the first year they are vegetative only and don't produce fruit. The second year, they flower and produce fruit, but then die. The plants that fruited for you last year can be removed because they are dead anyway. Those that were vegetative last year will or should produce fruit this season. It is best to get the old canes removed as soon as possible. Most people get around to it in the fall after a couple of hard frosts
Most of our second year canes were taken out by the neighbor's lawn service. We had only one left standing, but have a new crop of new canes. Whoever lives here next summer should get a lot of nice berries.
We've had a bunch of cukes and a few zucchini already, a handful of strawberries, a few green peppers are almost picking size. But our tomato plants are ginourmous too - one is taller than DH at 6'! There are a ton of cherry and grape tomatoes just starting to turn red, and then we will have them coming out our ears.
This is the first garden we've planted in 4 years, and it's doing really well. I can't take any credit though, it's DH's labor of love.
Interesting. They've always been pretty piddly producers. My mom's go *nuts* every year and I don't think she does anything to them except maybe trim them back in the fall/early winter.
They spread so much and so fast, I thought for sure we'd have something to show for it this year!
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