The garden has gone a little crazy. Turns out we made a small mistake with the fertilizer. When we built the bed Mike added Nitrogen. Turns out that nitrogen is what causes plants to get really big, leafy and green. This sounds good but all of the plants energy is going there instead of the vegetables. Our radishes and beets were lost to this, they were huge leafy vegetables but hardly anything in the dirt. I have worked to add some potassium now to help balance things out but here is where the garden is now.
The carrots which actually have little orange carrots developing.
Spinach and lettuce which we have been eating, but bugs are really eating away at the lettuce.
The tomatoes which are pretty much covering the peppers and eggplant, they are almost taller than the fence. There are small tomatoes on the plants.
The tomatillo which is looking good.
The corn, cucumber and one parsnip.
Watermelon, beans and cantaloupe.
And finally the squash. These are doing good. We have a few small zucchini and it looks like some of the other squash may be coming in soon too.
The rhubarb I planted are growing. The herbs are also getting bigger and more productive. My Mothers Day lemon tree will hopefully go in the ground soon. The dirt is very rocky and clay-like to I am only getting a little of the whole dug each day. That's the garden so far!
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