Vegetable Garden update

It's the 3rd week of June and the garden is looking good.

Just planted some bush beans for drying - black, calypso, kidney, cranberry varieties

 Some corn sprouts coming up in the two pots

 Butternut squash is starting well

 

 Watermelon vines

 The hops have topped out the trellises and are starting to flower and form cones

The two paprika pepper plants didn't make it early so we replaced with jalapenos from the garden center. 

Some baby peppers 

 We started the onions a little late, not sure how big they'll be when we harvest them. 

 The bed of garlic that was planted last fall looks fantastic.  

 They all have scapes or have bloomed, so they'll start dying and be ready for harvesting in a few weeks.

The tomatillos and ground cherries that we started from seed really took off once they were in the ground. 

 Tomatoes are nice and bushy, and all have fruit

We did potatoes in the pots again, hopefully they do better than last year

 Sweet potato vines in half of the pots

Vegetable Garden - 1st week of July

We've planted two rows of gourds, we'll be building an arbor for them.  

Birdhouse gourds and snake gourds.

 The watermelon vines are starting to take off.

 Sweet potatoes are doing fine, they needed more room.  The squash and zucchini plants have bloomed and are developing. 

 The sugar snap peas have completely climbed the tepee, and are now starting to yellow with the heat.  Carrots next to them are good, we think we should have thinned them out a bit though.  We'll see how big the carrots end up.

 The Italian rose beans are full of beans, the 3 cucumber plants in this bed appear to have been infected with Bacterial Wilt.  But we've only seen one cucumber beetle, which supposedly causes it.  The plant didn't seem slimy when cut either, which is supposed to be a sign.  Either way, this is the 2nd year in a row they did not do well. 

 Closeup of the Italian Rose beans.  We are going to let them dry on the plant.

 These 4 cucumber plants are doing much better, but now some of the vines are starting to wilt too. 

 Our soy beans plants are huge, and are flowering.  The green bean plants behind them have already flowered, and have small beans on them. 

 As you can see, for whatever reason, the one half of the tomato plants are doing much better than the other half.  We can't figure out why. 

 The "Fourth of July" and "Fresh Salsa" varieties are starting to be ripe.

 The peppers plants all have peppers.   The Scarlet Runner beans have flowered, but don't seem to be forming beans.  We think maybe the birds are eating the flowers/baby beans?  

Closeup of some of the peppers

Closeup of Peppers and Tomatoes

 We planted 5 pumpkin vines, 2 "Amish Pie" and 3 "World Color". 

We harvested our onions (yellow and red), and the rest of the garlic. We discovered that you do not want to let the onions bloom.  The 3 that had flowered, had the smallest onions.  The garlic is hanging up to dry on the porch, as it's supposed to be out of direct sun, and breezy.