Today we worked on weeding our flower beds and tearing up the spent vegetable plants in the veggie garden. After some further research, we decided it would be ok to harvest what we could from it, as long as the veggie is thoroughly washed and cooked (our cat has used it as her litterbox). After harvesting a small roma tomato as well as a large yellow squash, we decided to go ahead and stake the poor tomatoes who were struggling to hold themselves up!
First harvest of August:
Successfully staked tomato plants: (note: we used existing pieces of wood laying around in the garage, so the cost of staking 8 plants was completely FREE)
Lovely La Roma tomatoes:
Nicely growing Better Boys:
Staked tomato patch from front:
Bell pepper who was previously suffocating under all the unstaked tomato vines:
Now, least you think our garden is all up and running, please take a moment and view the other side. A weedy mess indeed. The far right bed we actually completely ripped out, where the 2 squash plants previously resided. It was just not going well (lots of cat poo), and we need to restore that soil anyway. The middle bed is a project for another day, but you can see one lonely tomato plant staked in the middle. I'm not entirely sure that one will survive amongst all the grasses attempting to take over, but we'll see.
And here is our brush/compost pile after all the weeding today. You can see the remains of several ill-fated broccoli and lettuce plants:
1 comment:
Your garden is so versatile! We did a bunch of tomato plants this year, a green pepper, and a couple squash, but we were overtaken my insects. We got a really good tomato harvest, and we managed a few small crook-necked (is that what they're called) squash before it was all over.
I hope yours goes better than ours!
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