Week 3, 2012

The plants have grown SO much over the past week!

Here is the link to the second week's pictures.

First bed: We've had to put Sevin on the plants because we found some kind of insect on the lettuce. Better to be safe than sorry!

Second bed: so much bigger than week 2. No bugs in this bed yet! Blooms are just starting to form in the middle of the squash plants. Hopefully they will come up sometime in the next few days!

Third bed: not many changes to these plants yet. Both tomato plants have plenty of blooms on them now.

Fourth bed: I forgot to say in Week 2's blog that the plants that are in the cage with the strawberries are sage plants. I (K) read that squirrels don't like sage so maybe that will help along with the sticks and the cage. So far, there have been no other intruders! Lots of blooms and baby strawberries growing though

Fifth bed: these 3 tomato plants have plenty of blooms on them also. I haven't had to water them much because the new soil is keeping pretty moist from the occasional rain showers.

Stay tuned for more updates!

Week 2 -- Late Update!

I know I'm like 2 weeks late for this update but here it is anyway....

Here is the link to the first week's pictures.

The first bed: lettuce, beans, and peas.

The second bed: cucumbers, squash, and zucchini.

The third bed: tomatoes, peppers, and onions. As you can see in the lower right corner of the box, we have had a pepper casualty. The theory goes that a squirrel sat on it with his fat butt. He will become squirrel stew if he doesn't stop digging in our boxes.

The first tomato blooms of the season! From bed three, lower left corner

Our strawberry bed. The evil, evil squirrels actually dug UNDER the chicken wire and ate ALL of our berries and blooms. Needless to say, we were all very mad at them. So I (K) came up with the idea of putting sticks around the cage, holding the wire down and hopefully keeping the squirrels out. You'll have to check out Week 3's blog to see if it worked!

The fifth bed: peppers, tomatoes, and onions. Another casualty in the lower right corner of the bed, most likely due to another squirrel.

No harvest this week...because the squirrels ate everything and the blooms are just starting to come out.

Stay tuned for more updates!