Garden Update

Its been a little bit since I posted. Im doing the Couch to 5K (c25k) program to get my butt back in shape. I’m starting week 5 today and if I survive then I’ll keep posting. Also, I’m getting things cleaned up and organized out in the shop (garage, whatever) and plan on getting elbows deep in some restoration projects that I can post also.

The garden is coming along. I pulled some goodies off the vines to take over to my parents this weekend and took a pic to show what I can pull after a week of watering and tending. It looks like this.

Overall I’m pretty happy with it. I don’t pull ‘orange’ or even ‘orangish-red’ tomatoes, only the really ripe ‘red-red’ tomatoes. Everyone I have given some to comment on how sweet the tomatoes are. If anyone is interested the type is S100 Super-Sweet. I have to admit, I’m not much of a tomato eater, but these are damn good.

The bell peppers have been coming alive and producing like crazy over the recent hot weather we had. I’m curious to see if they will taper off on production since this last week the temps dropped back 10-20 degrees. Yes, it really dropped that much, from 105 highs to 85 or so. On the bright side, the lower temps have allowed some of my other plants like the mints some needed relief . I have noticed that one bell pepper plant doesnt yeild the usual bell pepper shape. Instead this one grows what looks like a overly large jalepeno, but it still smells and tastes like a bell pepper.

           

 

About now you are probably wondering about those giant carrot plants from previous posts. The flowers are starting to go to seed and I have put plastic bags over the flowers to capture any seed that falls from them. Even the seed on these things are huge compared to ‘normal’ carrots. I don’t know what I did, or how they got this big, but it’s going to be fun seeing what grows from these seeds if they sprout. Till then my plants look goofy with all the plastic on them.

Did you notice in the lower left corner you can see the tomato trying to take over the carrot plants? It has started using the carrots as a sort of trellis to climb for more sun. Crazy plants. Speaking of sun worshiping, I didnt have much hope since I have never successfully raised a watermelon plant, but my sugar baby is giving it a heck of  a try.

So far it looks healthy and happy with plenty of flowers and little watermelon buds. My real concern now is the damn ‘possums that my neighbor INSISTS on feeding cat food and treating like they are something special. Did you know in Cali it’s illegal to kill a ‘possum? Frickin’ ridiculous. And now that I finally have one of these to look after….

So, if I see so much as a ‘possum track in my backyard the gloves are coming off. My great grandad had a way of dealing with cats on the farm, seems like it would work well for ‘possums too.