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12 Jul 2005 @ 16:36 by jmarc : 20 foot diameter circle
planted @ May 1
Broccoli 12 plants, very plentiful
brussel sprouts 12 plants about 2 and 1/2 ft high little sprout nubs just now appearing on the stalks
Ruby red cabbage in the center of the garden, finally starting to fill in. The leaves are huge. Slugs have riddled the lower outer leaves with holes. Still not ready though. Hope they make it through the summer heat.
Tomatoe plants, eleven of them in different varieties, early girl, beefsteak, cherry, romas taking over and just frikken huge, many have tomatoes and lots of flowers promising more tomatoes.
Lettuce 12 romaine and 12 head lettuce. all the romaine is eaten (had to toss 3 of them because they got too slimy. Not sure what caused that). About 6 heads of head lettuce left, doing ok but starting to bolt i think so we'll finish that up soon too.
About a dozen pepper plants in differnt varieties red bell, green bell, habanero, jalepeno, hot cherry. I planted them between the tomatoes around the circumfrence. Some are getting too shaded by the tomatoes, so I am transplanting the stunted ones to the places emptied by the used lettuce. Habeneros not growing big. Not sure if they're suppose to. Maybe it's been to wet for them.
Cukes. planted late may, also at the outer limit with the peppers and tomatoes. They keep trying to grab onto the tomatoes so i go out there every day or two and unwind them from the tomatoes and train them onto the chicken wire fence.
Outside the fence on the hill weve got a giant pumpkin that hasnt flowered yet, acorn squash that just finished flowering and is now got tiny nubs in place of the flowers which will be the acorn squash, eating pumpkins, baby pam, that havent flowered yet but look like they will any day,(scared a garter snake out of the baby pams the other day when I was checking them), zucchinni squash flowered last night, and mystery squash,( we forgot what we planted on that mound, maybe eggplant, maybe summer squash, maybe more zuchinni?) has also flowered.
Also, radished growing in herb garden on the other side of the house slowly being transplanted into lettuce rows as space permits, on rainy days.
The robin pair which nested in the bush had four babies, which flew off last week. The nest is empty, with no dead ones underneath, so I guess they all made it. I still see the robins around getting themselves worms though. I also see the catbirds still around, but seeing that they built their nest in the pricker bushes, I dont know how many babes they had or if they've flown yet.
Giant sunflowers the four plants that the woodchuck didnt eat, are about three feet tall, no flowers yet.
No sign of the woodchuck since I poured the used kitty litter down its hole and sprinkled it around the diameter of the garden.
