Garden Expansion

As promised!

The no dig, low-work garden has been expanded!

Got some more tubs and dirt and planted stuff! I even managed to get the drill working right so I didn't have to try to carve more holes into the bottoms of these tubs with a knife. That worked okay on the thinner plastic of the original tubs, but these are much thicker. They were the same price, and deeper and bigger, so how could I resist? 

Here - the squash needed to be thinned, so I took some of the smaller, worse off plants and put them in one of the new tubs. Cross your fingers that they make it. I know stuff is supposed to be thinned, but I think we've all already discussed how I hate throwing out live plants. So - their own tub. 

And this is the beans and their new trellis! They seem happy.








As for the "expansion": this new tub is full of cuke (cucumber!) and carrot seeds. This is pretty much the last of the variety I'm going to work on this growing season. I have enough stuff that if things don't come up or thrive, there are other seeds to take their places. 

Read on for a Crop Update!


Tomatoes:
Poor Henrietta has almost no leaves, but she does have one tiny tomato clinging to her. Ruby - got one tomato today, and two more are still growing. George - big healthy plant and just... nada. No blossoms, no tomatoes, nothing. Jerk.

Peppers:
There are three on the plants, and they just keep getting bigger! I check them every day, they don't come off when I tug them, so I'm just going to let 'em grow until they do.

Lettuce:
All is big and bushy. See yesterday's post for the Lettuce Tree, ha ha.

Rosemary:
Slow growing, but still making progress.

Frankenbasil:
I cut some and used it in spaghetti sauce the other night. That might have done it for the one plant, but the other is still growing strong. One of these days I might actually get it chopped and frozen...

That's all I can think of for now. The weekend is coming though - always exciting!

Pam  :)