A Few Weeks Later?

Ruby and the marigolds

Here is the veggie garden a few weeks later.  I think it's been a few weeks anyway.  Looks like the cuke is at the top of the trellis, still has leaf miner damage. At this point though, I'm caring less and less. Can you see the teeny strawberry in there?  It's on the side nearest Ruby.

The bush bean in the middle is looking healthy, right? It is also a magnet for some kind of critter that likes to cut the leaf edge in a perfect triangle, fold it over and hide a little wormy caterpillar in there.  I pick a leaf off, next day another leaf edge is all tattered and cut up. By whom? Why, the incredibly aptly named bean leafroller. I'm not making that up.

I never knew lettuce could be so pretty

Peas Please

micro lettuce

bush bean

The bush bean is the only one flowering. No other flowers in site, but the garden is young yet. The strawberries are about a week behind everyone else. The agriculture extension says it is a September crop in my zone but none of the stores have them yet.

onward and upward!

watermelon

strawberries

Digging In The Dirt

Jalapeno plant going in.

And before you say anything at all, I know it is not dirt, it is soil. But dirt just sounds better.  These are pics of the plants actually going in the boxes. I found that if you water the heck out of the bottom of the hole then place the plant in a sloppy mess of goop, the plant suffers little to no shock. Somehow it works. Out of all the things that we planted, not one of them wilted or went into shock. Not bad considering it is still hot, hot, hot here in September.

Watermelon will get a trellis to grow upwards.

So tiny, barely a set of true leaves.

Large tomato, cherry tomato, bush bean and mini bell peppers

Close up of the watermelons

Marigolds, sweet banana peppers, bush bean, tomato

Dad taught me well, bury the tomatoes deep!

Plants! Plants! Plants!

peas, cucumbers, pepers

Where's the Beef?

Happy little plants

These plants went into the raised beds around the first of September 2011. We have large variety tomato plants, cherry tomato plants, jalapenos, sweet banana peppers, snow peas, bush beans, cucumbers, watermelons, strawberries, lettuce, mini bell peppers and marigolds. It sounds like alot but there are only 1-2 plants of each. They were bought from Lowes and a local nursery. Wish me luck!