GARDEN VIDEO UPDATE - 8/24/13

READY FOR FALL PLANTING - All cleaned up and looking good 8/24/13

Well hello there folks.  Lots of clean up finally completed all through the raised beds and back yard.
I couldn't take the leaf hoppers on the tomatoes any longer so those plants are now gone along with those nasty bugs... Hope they don't come back next year!

I pulled all of the spent potted tomato plants also.   There was plenty of good soil from the pots and I amended it with peat, compost, garden soil and vermiculite and added to the raised beds.

I planted three types of lettuce, more carrots and transplanted cauliflower seedlings.  I'm also trying carrots in a pot and will be curious to see how they do.  It's my second planting of carrot seeds, the first sowing didn't sprout at all.  I may have planted the seeds too deep - 1/4" deep is barely in the soil.    I also sowed more corn seeds as a lot of seeds never sprouted.  I heard a good tip this weekend about growing corn, plant squash with the corn, the leaves shade the roots of the corn and keep it cool.....   I bought a package of Winter Spaghetti Squash and will try that.....see how it does.

There are still plenty of Ichaban eggplant growing, so I left them in the raised bed, we may get a few more harvests out of those two plants.  The fruit is really sweet and delicious.

I still have to try the pesto recipe using the basil.  I have four really healthy basil plants but have yet to experiment...  going to do that in the very near future.


Check out the rest of the pictures below and my video update.  Happy Gardening.

Kentucky Wonder Pole Beans

Banana Peppers

Mary

Wild Flower

pretty

2nd Gladiola

Blue Lake Pole Beans

Kentucky Wonder

Ret Hot Cherry Peppers

Habaneros growing nicely now

Hot Hot Cow Horns

Parsley - finally getting much needed sun

eggplant

Corn

Garden Video Update 8/16/13

GARDEN UPDATE - AUGUST 16TH 2013

RED HOT CHERRY PEPPER

 It's been a few weeks since I've posted any updates mostly because not much has been happening in the garden.

I finally pulled up the rest of the green onions, the cucumbers that weren't growing and the dead squash plants.  I still have 5 or 6 potted tomato plants that are finished and need to be pulled also.

I planted two types of stringless pole beans, Kentucky Wonder and Blue Lake.  These both germinated within a few days!  I'm hoping they totally take over both arbors in the back of the raised beds.  I also planted some Kentucky    

 Wonder seeds in a pot with a tomato cage, we'll
 see how they do there.  Looking forward to having fresh green beans as the bush variety really didn't produce but one harvest this year.

In the raised beds where the melons were, I planted corn.  A Sweet Corn Bi-Licious hybrid variety and a Silver Queen, Hybrid.   Most all of the Bi-Licious seeds have sprouted but the others are slow to come up.  I may have planted them a bit deeper, hope that's the issue anyway.  I am going to leave them be and let nature take over.  I think they are planted close enough for good pollination and the area is pretty open for 

BEAN SPROUTS

 the summer breeze to do it's job.  Nothing would
make me prouder than serving my family fresh corn from my garden!  :)

I finally harvested a bunch of cow horn peppers and fried them up with some olive oil and garlic.  They were extremely HOT!  Yes, I was very pleased!!  I think they are my most favorite!!

I've been picking some Roma tomatoes but the Leaf Hopper is still living in the garden, doing it's damage and I have to say, it kind of makes me squeamish to eat anything those bugs have been sucking on.... really bothers me!  crazy right? 

EGGPLANT

 Same thing with the Lemon Boys and Sun Sugars,
 although the Lemon Boys have started to liquefy on the vine and fall off... that's a new one!  If anyone has answers as to why that is happening, I would love to hear about it.

That's about it for today folks, I'm hoping the rain holds up at least long enough for me to do some clean up this weekend....Lot's to do in the garden.

Happy Gardening!

Mary

MORE BEAN SPROUTS

JASMINE ON ARBOR NEEDS SOME ATTENTION

KENTUCKY WONDER BEANS

SPROUTS - THINK IT'S CAULIFLOWER

CORN!

CORN

GARDEN VIDEO BLOG #8 - 8/2/13

TOMATOES, PEPPERS AND MORE

 The Gladiola has bloomed and it's beautiful.  I wish more of the bulbs would have come up.  I will have to try again next year.

As far as the rest of the garden, the tomatoes are still producing and growing and are healthy.  They are taking up more room in the raised beds than I thought and I'm a bit worried about them shadowing any fall crops I put in now.  I will have to take my chances because I am not going to pull out any plant that is still thriving.

Something is destroying the purple basil plant.  What ever it is, it works fast because the damage you see here happened overnight.
Does anyone have an idea as what it may be?

The Dalhia is growing nicely, filling up this pot but still no signs of flowering.