Back from Vacation and wow lots of weeds!

So the weeds came with a vengeance this week. This will not be fun to pick since while on vacation I nearly had to go into Emergency with some really bad intestinal pain. It's taken days for it to go away and is only a bit sore now unless I move the wrong way. I tried some weeding yesterday for a little while and got really tired. I had to go home again for a nap! that was pretty frustrating and cut into my productivity alot.

We visited the Millwoods garden yesterday and there are finally some zucchini growing there! What's not growing is the radishes! In fact they are completely gone. Not harvested by us :-( I hope it was a hungry bunny rather than a hungry person.

Missing radishes, you can see the holes where they were and a chewed remaining radish.

In comparison, I think the Camrose garden is doing way better than the Millwoods garden. I walked around the rest of the Millwoods garden and compared their plants to mine. I think the shade from the tree has all my veggies substantially smaller than others who don't have shade. I'm glad I put in the windbreaks for the tomatoes though as they are doing nicely. The peas are finding their way to the trellises and the beans will need a little help perhaps since they are just going straight up. The 2 pumpkin plants are Growing as are the beets, carrots, onions and garlic. The cucumbers are growing but they are seeming to be much slower than I had thought they'd be.

Even the cucumbers in my front yard are growing better than the ones in the millwoods plot...Perhaps some organic fertiliser is now in order.

I have revamped the garden room in the house and have 5 tomato plants I'll let run their course inside, and 4 pepper plants. I've planted several more ground cherries to try wintering as well as a winter squash and another gourd plant. The lights are completely on timers now, as is the big fan. I have the fan set for 5 times per day at a half hour each session. I hope this will encourage much stronger stems than previous plants from the garden room.

The Beefsteak tomatoes in the front yard are doing fantastically, There are 3 plants in a big pot and I fertilised them before going on vacation. They now have a lot of new leaf growth, flower buds, and really nice deep green colour. The sage and thyme have both sprouted, the cucumbers are doing well there and the tiny tim tomatoes are doing will too with flower buds coming. The gourd seedling has put on more leaf growth.

Now for this week's pictures:

Tomato flourishing next to windbreak.

Beets and some lettuce. The lettuce didn't germinate well.

Tiny Tim Tomatoes and onions

Carrots, Onions, and garlic

Holy Mole Pepper and its companion tomatoes.

Tomatoes behind windbreak, no windburn on leaves.