It's been about 8 weeks now since we planted our little garden, and it's provided almost daily excitement for the girls as they've watched things sprout, grow and now begin showing signs of fruit. Since our
last garden update, the corn has shot up from 8" to being much taller than them, and little husks of corn are now visible. The watermelon and honeydew mellon (those that lived, anyway!) are growing like gangbusters, and we just uncovered a baseball-sized honeydew yesterday. The tomatoes are less prolific than I'd hoped, but we've already had a chance to enjoy some of them, especially the small, yellow pear tomatoes. The bell pepper plants are finally showing little tiny peppers. I managed to kill most of the squash, save for a couple of nice plants with bloom brilliantly but produce no squash (what's up with that?!). The green beans started off strong, but 1/2 have withered away, and the rest are poking along. Never could get the lettuce to sprout (I think the 2 weeks of triple digit temps did them in). As for the various flowers, their alive & well, but... well, mostly flower
less. So a mixed success thus far, but enough to keep things exciting.
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Love your garden :) I had some trouble this year with my squash, too. The blooms were lovely, but then they fell off the plant without setting fruit. Bummer. Hopefully things will pick up over the next few weeks. We just had our first few yellow pear tomatoes and last night had our first cucumber in a salad! The thing Noah enjoys the most is taking out his little collander and picking out the veggies for lunch/dinner. I just tell him to pick whatever he likes and then I turn that into lunch. Fun :) I'm sure the high temps kept you from getting lettuce - we couldn't get any, either. I'm going to wait for fall, which might work for you, too. Loved seeing Chloe's kinder graduation...she is so cute!!
Nikki - thanks for the note. Yes, our girls have a LOT of fun picking stuff (not that we have too much - the yellow pear tomatoes seem to come in batches of 2-4 -- not even quite a snack for the girls!). My new project with them is to graph the corn growth. We discovered corn is about the easiest & fastest thing to grow, so we just planted more. After a few days in the ground the plants went from 0" to 1" to 3" to 4.5" over the past 4 days. So the girls can easily see and measure the growth. Educates, keeps them busy during the summer, and we get free food out of the deal. A win-win-win combo!
Post some more pics of your kiddos!
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