I was delighted when DH brought home some tomato plants last week. Someone at his office was giving them away and DH was given two. Both had tomatoes already growing. I immediately decided the struggling bell peppers would give way to these beautiful plants and made the switch.
Here's how the garden looks:
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIeMWQMzQ1TdTf4lYpDigHf4pNIt5guJtq4KHQLMck_llnt6Nh1daaFbZ9KU1XNkyLC74QfbxE5ff9tiPXKU32j0Zlr5ILuISyBeyqDHA5nEKy2BQ6k3TNigm4082feu3Eg9b8EJblR6Oz/s320/2010+07+July+017.jpg)
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwi2-pd0L5h3jQZfaYLVOXu4PXdeO8m7OdQKBXO_i9mucqxDToPEmS9lAPLEBfPry53WW_V3lWUXA1y5i3-DAH267KFdEsRBvakjJz8936e3QhHtS-RsglXN9D4rdTogTqIxvUPJQPDHjM/s320/2010+07+July+013.jpg)
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEia1Jjht_jOIgQjHJIqeqc9spjKWyvRDdeKnvuRJ-A3uN0jBbOFMXiNIpQ4V-GlTlbNre7yafOwMCy3QqeBrVbNEiLJwtbHeKh1S_aqoX9gjW5woumMY4UR0AtAk2fRVf1oVzxTmsfbv29s/s320/2010+07+July+015.jpg)
Here are our sugar snap peas. It's always hard for me to see these guys, but there are three nice pods in this picture:
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinpOL6SITKZZKHdZSa7zYfT98p94Z-_3Ztln8FvK0P0Q0tWJiWHAorXsX_Lc7o9aI0SYrxTUaE1aYoWGrd634bj4T-_uJN1fmexxs8hnSMREH1DK2o1jxCb_-BwOPxptEDtl0rQvpIZbIu/s320/2010+07+July+009.jpg)
The girls picked the only full pea pod and made short work of it. I hope their eagerness to eat the peas continues! We had fun planting another patch of peas together. The seeds are nice and big and easy for little hands to handle.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaCFFdjeERbcicgVYlMV9kQ2MMv5PJtaU6JVoWpg54junx1mcPVcoNvkgzEEx02JKWtIFlR2ktpjS3W3IHZ-gmOJZfTmwvo9UsyI3q1Y8mTrU2RCNQShKS5qemnPd9xhnidfZOyTKGPxVl/s320/2010+07+July+019.jpg)
The lettuce continues to flourish. I thinned it further but still have vast quantities to pick and have been giving much away. This great supply will wane in the next couple of weeks (I think) so I planted more romaine and mixed greens. It may or may not grow as lettuce doesn't sprout if the soil gets too warm - around 75 I think. I'm hoping our temps don't grow crazy this week.
I would have liked more spinach, but I'm out of spinach seeds. I decided I'd use up the other lettuce seeds instead of spending money to buy more spinach seeds.
These are plastic grocery bags full of lettuce.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4LfEMxfQYFbMZgNv5uyxY-78RtGc8R-IMKbUnpvOk-9JeI-3r2RO5jr6inN-jXvCxYfsS2Hb2MBgdgle37E2XkCimVVhQZ8jC9FyHb_eqMw9CQyUgRcP7W4JJrICu1UE93Kk0iNXYbH85/s320/2010+07+July+020.jpg)
The carrots didn't take at all so we just retilled that area to plant more romaine and another pea patch. I pulled the bell peppers (which were alive but had only grown about 10% in two months) to plant the new tomato plants. I am still hoping to find cucumber plants so I didn't plant anything in that spot.
Overall I'm feeling like things are growing well!
Katie
No comments:
Post a Comment
So, what do you think?