I need a place to leave notes and journal logs of my garden activities. These garden updates are going to be where I do that. Nothing special here. This is just a place for anyone who is interested the status of my garden and for me to ramble.
Notes
So the garden is five weeks old this week, at least that’s when I started the seeds. All of the seeds I started are now in the ground: tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, cucumbers, cucamelons, zucchini, squash, corn, purple hull peas, jalapenos, and bell peppers.
Everything seems to be doing ok and has transitioned outside ok. I put the jalapenos out this weekend, a week later than everything else. The jalapenos got acclimated to the sun at the same as the rest of the vegetables and spent another week in this house. They weren’t really big enough to be put in the ground. Apparently they needed to be acclimated again because some of them had a little bit of burning, but otherwise seem ok.
Critters and bees are plentiful in the garden. Don’t see any pests besides some slugs feasting on my strawberries.
All of the zucchini and squash plants are flowering pretty vigorously. I also have a few cucumber plants that are flowering.
The cucamelon and cucumber plants seem to be training themselves to the trellis arches, but they all need to be tied to the trellis for better support.
We have some extra room leftover in the garden. We started some money maker tomatoes and herbs. We also had some friends and family who wanted some starters. We have a large section of the garden that was going to be used for arugula, but I think the weed pressure is going to a struggle for them, so we’re going to use that area for beets and onions. Those will get planted probably next week.
Harvested
Strawberry patch output so far the year has surpassed 6 lbs as of yesterday. I need to consider expanding this. Right now I have enough strawberries to keep Leah entertained.
Weather
Weather this week has been warm. Didn’t really have any rain this week. The weather started off warm and ended up pretty hot by the end of the week. Temperatures reached into the 90s. Garden got an hours worth of sprinkler time. Soil felt a little dry when I was planting the jalapenos.
We are expecting rain this coming week on Sunday. The rest of the week looks dry and HOT. I will plan on using the sprinkler again sometime around Wednesday. I really should look into a soil moisture gauge and a rain gauge.