Wednesday, August 8, 2007

Squash production!

The Camrose garden has produced 4 spaghetti squash now and a zucchini! They are growing very fast. there are little pumpkins doing well hanging from the pumpkin trellises too. They have grown so fast they have shaded out the watermelon, but I'll know better for spacing next time around that the watermelon needs to go in front.

This past week has been very busy away from the gardens with visits every 3 days or so for watering and harvesting. The peas and beans are ready and being picked and the zuchini plants in both gardens are producing. So far the white zucchini plants have produced the fastest. The cucumbers are all begin to really come along and we have many green tomatoes everywhere. I've harvested on monday the parmex ball carrots from the Camrose garden and about 1/2 of the beets.

I'm definitely going to make more seed tape to control spacing better for the next round of plantings. I might be able to get in one more fast crop if I seed in the next couple of days. The Camrose garden produced a single head of romaine lettuce and the germination rate on that packet of seeds was awful!

I'm pretty glad I put the landscape fabric down in the millwoods garden so weeding is a non-existent thing just about (except in the pathways) since I managed to get my foot broken on a rafting trip over the weekend. It's definitely hampering my mobility! I'll have some new pictures up later on today of all 3 of the gardens. It's nice to see them going full steam ahead now.

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