July 20 A Pictorial. Part Deux.

So.. I usually love all things google, but this google blogger software is not my favorite. The new post window is tiny, pictures never go where I intend them and do any interesting wrapping of text is near impossible. Any way part 1 of the pictures was getting a little unwieldy to work with so I broke it into 2 parts. Here is the tomatoes and the basil.


Tomato patch overview.


Basil.. two of the 6 plants we have scattered through the yard.

Cherry tomatoes.. I love how they form a whole stem of tomatoes like that, just looks cool.

Fourth of July tomatoes.. Denver is about 3 weeks behind an average growing season, so they are maturing right on time.

July 20 A Pictorial.

Alright.. been slacking off with updating here. Just when the garden is getting interesting too. So i went and shot a bunch of pictures this morning. Here we go.

Overview


Pole Beans.. climbing nicely starting to get blossoms.. carrots in foreground.

Second planting of lettuce, romaine in the back black seeded simpson in the front.
Green and sweet onions.
Massive chard plants.. need to eat more of this soon.


little tiny cucumbers.

Not so little tiny zucchini


I planted Burpees 'Carnival Mix' of peppers. So even as the peppers form I'm not sure what all I'll be getting. I have 5 bell plants and one jalapeno, but the bells can be of a number of varieties. Should be fun to see what color they turn.

The Raspberries

This is a less than impressive post, but I'm hoping it will serve as a reminder next summer to how far certain areas of the garden have come.

We hope(d) to grow red raspberries and found a guy selling some on craigslist. He had a gorgeous raspberry patch and seemed to know what he was doing so I bought some. He dug me 5 massive rootballs with little spring shoots for $20. So it was a low risk deal. He said to plant them and trim off all above ground growth. Which I did. Sadly they have not done much at all. Now to be fair it is possible that I didn't water them nearly enough when they were first in. They got planted in what at the time was a non irrigated section of our yard. So maybe I got bad plants, maybe bad advice, maybe just didn't water enough. But our envisioned raspberry patch looks like this.



Not so good really. The one glimmer of hope is one plant did take. It is growing slowly but clearly still alive.




I've been told these things spread like crazy so maybe we can make a patch out of this one yet, but we think a supplemental fall planting may be in order.

Some harvest pics from the last few weeks

First two heads of broccoli. Forgetting how big a head is I failed to stagger our plantings and we ended up with 4 head of broccoli all at once... live and learn.



Our first head of romaine. We have been picking leaf lettuce for salads for quite a while, but fun to get a whole head.

Cherry bomb radishes. These babies are super tasty and FAST. Roughly 30 days from seed to harvest, we have done 2 full crops already with a third about to go in the ground.