Garden is actually looking like a garden now! Most of the plants are large enough to easily distinguish and look really nice. My blue lake pole bean had even wrapped itself around the nearest tomato cage and was pulling down on it so hard, it was actually tilting out of the soil! I’ve got to figure out how to build a support of some sorts for it to grow on. My Gypsy peppers are full of yellowish green peppers that have almost doubled in size since last week I was in the garden. None of them have turned color yet, so although they look delicious, I must keep waiting. Two of the three tomato plants I transplanted next to the Early Girls are doing well. The other somehow died, so I’ll find another to take its place. The Early Girls are already putting forth flowers, and I can hardly wait to harvest some fruit for salsa. I’ve let my apartment tomatoes growing in containers die since they were producing bite-sized fruit, which was certainly not enough to do much with.
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Carrots are looking nice. I think I’ll let them grow a bit more before harvesting them and planting something in their place. Although it’s only been a week since I took some leaves off my peppermint plant to distill essential oil, it is thriving and I could hardly notice where I removed any leaves. The butter leaf lettuce looks great too. I eat a lot of lettuce in salad wraps and sandwiches, so I can’t wait for the other 5 I planted to get going as well. All have sprouted but are still quite small.
My cucumbers in the middle are growing quickly, the two basil plants look healthy, and two of the three plants east of the lettuce have to be watermelon. I still need to research what the plants I sowed, look like when they’re mature, so I know which is the other I need to remove. Overall though, everything looks great and it’s been so easy to maintain with the drip system installed. I never water it, as the lines are on a timer that waters everything automatically in the evening. As well, since last week when I did a little bit of weeding, no new growth has occurred and the plot looks relatively weed free.
I’m thinking with how easy this has been and how rewarding, maybe next season I’ll rent out two or three plots to grow more vegetables and a dedicated space for growing plants to distill oils from.
Joshua Wilson 