Normally I would have posted my weekly searches blog yesterday but there really weren’t any new searches leading to this blog this week. Well, there were plenty about Rob Rainford and more of the same from the previous weeks search posts, but nothing that made me want to blog about the topics. So instead I am finally posting some photos of the garden which I recall I said I would do earlier this week and never quite got around to it. These photos are about a week old now but you can still see the massive growth that took place after we repotted everything. The plants are even larger now and starting to produce some veggies now. The sun is starting to come out a bit so maybe I will go take some new photos in a bit!
First up are the tomato plants. They really did just explode after we moved them into the new pots. It’s amazing what can happen when your plants actually have room to grow! This is what the plants looked like on June 10th when we repotted them…
And 10 days later they looked like this…
Again, this photo below was taken on the 10th. The eggplants are at the far end, then some peppers and you can just see the pinto beans, the stevia plants and a zucchini plant closest to us.
And now the eggplants are flourishing and the stevia we have actually tested already and harvested a few leaves to dry – it is most definitely a sweet plant!
And these are the zucchinis and cucumbers. Weplan to move at least two zucchinis out of the greenhouse because they are simply geting too big. If we leave them in there they will begin to take over the door. And the cucumbers are climbing all over everything so we may move one of those out also. We want to keep at least one of each in the greenhouse just to see if it has an sort of impact on the fruit and growth of the plant. This is our test year after all so we want to experiment as much as we can still.
And as you can see here, the sweet corn plants are getting their first tufts on them. Whether that is the correct term I certainly don’t know…but you know what I’m talking about, right? 😉
And here is our covered red current bush. The berries weren’t quite ripe yet when I went to harvest them yesterday so we will try them again tomorrow and see what the story is. Our gooseberries have taken up residence in the freezer…I imagine the currents will join them. We have some black currents as well but about half of the bush was dead and when I tasted the fruit the other day it was a bit strange. Of course I also haven’t tasted too many black currents but they just didn’t taste quite right.
Oh, and did I mention we have an apricot tree?? It’s not plums or whatever else we were thinking it might be – it’s apricots. And they are already quite tasty although they can probably use a week or so more on the tree. They actually taste a bit like they’ve been crossed with peaches and look like peaches. I am generally not much of an apricot fan although I don’t think I’ve ever eaten a fresh one but these you could certainly eat just as they are. So we’ll see how much fruit we get from the tree when we harvest it soon.
