Garden update

As I was wandering around out in my garden I had to stop and take a another look at my turnip patch. I hadn’t looked at them for a while and my jaw about dropped. Since it seems so big I think it is about time to harvest them all. Truthfully the real reason why I hadn’t looked at the turnips for a while was that I was disappointed in the root maggot damage that I was seeing. Therefore I just figured that most of the crop was a loss. While there was some damage it wasn’t to bad. I picked one beet and had to laugh at the size difference. Both the beets and turnips were planted at the same time. The beets haven’t been doing really well. When the soil gets amended next year hopefully we will see some changes in productivity.

My grape tomatoes are starting to ripen! Eating a home grown tomato is like a taste of heaven. Nothing you get in the store comes close. This tomato and the one behind it didn’t last after the picture was taken.

My pumpkin is growing by inches everyday it seems. I don’t look at it for a couple of days and then I take a peek and my eyes about bug out of my head. Lee thinks I am growing the really giant variety but I’m not. I feel like a little kid in the absurd excitement that I feel when I look at it. My last post about my pumpkin was 10 days ago. Look at the size difference. Lee says that maybe my hand is shrinking.

This is a squash plant called Lady Godiva. My mom gave me a few seeds to try this season. Lady Godiva is used for their naked seeds and not for its meat. Here is a picture and a little more information about them from Territorial Seed Company.

My mom gave me a few kohlrabi seeds to play with. Funny thing about this was I forgot that I had planted them. For the last week or so when I would walk by this section of the garden I would be like “what is that”. It was in the greens section next to the swiss chard that my mom had also given me to try out. That was how I figured it out finally. Well that and the confirmation of when I re-looked at my garden map that has everything I planted and where its planted written down. Don’t they look like little alien balls?

I have a hot pepper plant going along with some bell pepper plants. Not all the pepper plants have this big of fruit growing on them. Everyone I know around here uses black plastic on the ground around the pepper plants to help give them more heat. We didn’t do that this year. Next year I think I will try that and see if there is a difference in plant productivity.

Lastly here are my cucumbers. After sitting around for weeks looking like they weren’t going to do a thing they suddenly decided to come to life. I have never grown them up a trellis before so we will see how that goes.