Six weeks into our growing season we have some positive results and some not so positive ones.
On the positive side of things we have already been able to eat some beans, peas, cilantro, basil, and romaine. It is still early for the Romaine, but we have used some leaves to make sandwiches and burgers even better. Super Yum!
Our tomato plants have a few little green tomatoes growing on them, even though the plants are quite sad looking (yellow in some spots). It looks like we will get tomatoes regardless.
The carrots, zucchini, peppers, and spinach all seem to coming along nicely, though something ate one of the spinach plants. If it was a rabbit, hopefully it was a really cute rabbit.
On the negative side of things, we started about 25 new seeds in our peat pellets, but for whatever reason none of them sprouted. We started a few more after that, and only a few bean, corn, and cucumber sprouts were able to be planted. Once the cucumbers were planted, they instantly died. For us, this was definitely not the year to grow cucumbers!
On the advice of my Green Thumb friend Tasha, I checked out the blog You Grow Girl. We were looking for a home made pesticide, and found a tip on the site to use Neem Oil. We found Neem Oil at the health food store and made our own pesticide.
Since spraying the plants, we have definitely noticed less bugs trying to get at our plants. The website has countless other great tips, so if you have any questions about your garden, You Grow Girl is a great place to look for answers!
Previous Garden 2010 Blog Posts:
Plants in the Ground, Plants in the Ground
Garden 2010 - Day 12
How Does Your Garden Grow
On the positive side of things we have already been able to eat some beans, peas, cilantro, basil, and romaine. It is still early for the Romaine, but we have used some leaves to make sandwiches and burgers even better. Super Yum!
Our tomato plants have a few little green tomatoes growing on them, even though the plants are quite sad looking (yellow in some spots). It looks like we will get tomatoes regardless.
Sad tomato plants...
...but happy tomatoes!
On the negative side of things, we started about 25 new seeds in our peat pellets, but for whatever reason none of them sprouted. We started a few more after that, and only a few bean, corn, and cucumber sprouts were able to be planted. Once the cucumbers were planted, they instantly died. For us, this was definitely not the year to grow cucumbers!
On the advice of my Green Thumb friend Tasha, I checked out the blog You Grow Girl. We were looking for a home made pesticide, and found a tip on the site to use Neem Oil. We found Neem Oil at the health food store and made our own pesticide.
Since spraying the plants, we have definitely noticed less bugs trying to get at our plants. The website has countless other great tips, so if you have any questions about your garden, You Grow Girl is a great place to look for answers!
Previous Garden 2010 Blog Posts:
Plants in the Ground, Plants in the Ground
Garden 2010 - Day 12
How Does Your Garden Grow
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