Saturday, August 29, 2009

The Garden is Dying

I am not sure what happened to this habanero plant. It was good one day and dead the next. I think it got root rot.



The powdery mildew killed the cantaloupe plant right away.


Powdery mildew has killed most of the garden now, including the tomatoes and peppers. Lessons learned about the type of support system used for the tomatoes. This is good to keep the tomatoes from falling forward or backward but they will fall downward or sideways. I also had five plants in this 5 foot rectangle box which made it too crowded. I suspect overcrowding helped to kill them.


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Sunday, August 9, 2009

August Garden Bed

The garden is not doing so good. The squash and zucchini plants started off with powdery mildew. I ordered every product I could fine and tried every remedy online and nothing would get rid of it. It then quickly spread to the cucumbers, green beans, watermelon, and cantaloupe.


Damn powdery mildew. The watermelon and cantaloupe did not even get to full size before the mildew got them.


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Sunday, July 26, 2009

July Garden Bed

I am not sure how these yellow and red bell peppers work. They all start out green and then change color? They don't look like the store ones.

The vertical cantaloupe and watermelon are fruiting. I will offload the melons.



Tomatoes are doing good. So many that I ordered a canning kit so that I start canning.

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Friday, June 26, 2009

June Harvest Continued

Wow! Super Size Me.

Started harvesting tomatoes.



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Sunday, June 21, 2009

Its a Jungle Out There

Lots of green. Still harvesting and grilling eggplants, yellow squash and zucchini every weekend.

The watermelon and cantaloupe.


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Saturday, June 20, 2009

Harvest Continued

I pulled my first red cabbage and more red and white onions.
I had to pull several of the outer leaves off and wash it really good to get rid of the aphids.




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Monday, June 15, 2009

June Harvest


Here is what I harvested today. Green Bell Peppers, Green Beans, Yellow Squash, Japanese Eggplant, strawberries, raspberries, jalapenos, serranos and banana peppers. Not bad for a family of two.




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