We have had our first harvest of 2012!
This little yellow crookneck squash was not ready on Thursday but was a little bit over-ready when I picked it on Saturday. They grow so fast! There are 2 more on the vine that will be ready in no time. The zucchinni squash bushes are big and nice and green but I'm worried they are going to start smothering the hot peppers. I don't really care for either one of those plants, but Daniel likes them and I don't mind zucchini bread so I make sacrifices to be a good little wife :)
The cucumbers are finally starting to take off but now I don't remember which 2 are pickling vines and which 2 are slicing. Hopefully I have it noted someplace. I can't wait to be snacking on my own cucumbers. There is nothing like it in the world.
The tomatoes in the garden were doing so well but then they had little black bugs all over them and the leaves on one bush started to look like they had a fungus. Now they just keep looking worse and worse it seems to be spreading. I harvested our first red tomato today and it was sort of brown and rotted at the top. It's really disheartening after last year's tomato FAIL. But the 3 bushes in the pot on the back deck are still doing very well (knock on wood), so hopefully I will get to can my own tomatoes yet later this summer. I hope I can figure out a way to save the current tomatoes still.
As for my giant bell pepper....it is refusing to turn red. I'm not sure if it's just not ready or if I got tricked into buying plants that will just stay green. Only time will tell.
I finally pulled up a bunch of the first round of lettuce. It was really quite cute the way they had bolted up so that some of them looked like little lettuce trees but the leaves had turned bitter so up they came. We have a second round growing that I think will be our last until the fall. We'll plant more then PLUS try carrots again. I have 2 random carrot plants that finally decided to grow and I'm determined to grow a bunch when cool weather kicks in.
It has been HOT HOT HOT the past week with no rain in sight. I have been watering every morning to keep everything alive. Rain would be a wonderful gift about now. Definitely don't want a repeat of last year.
Overall I'd say the garden is doing ok this year. I'd give it a solid B or B- at this point.
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