Today was a good day in my garden. I worked all morning harvesting vegetables and clearing out some of the garden boxes. I harvested the pitiful end of our broccoli and cauliflower, white onions, sweet yellow onions, radishes, amarillo carrots, French market carrots, and one sweet pepper.
The squash box was a total disaster area. I pulled the dead cucumbers, scallop squash, crookneck squash, and zucchini as well as hundreds of weeds. I can't seem to grow any type of squash and make it work. I am getting frustrated but forging forward with new cucumbers, crookneck, and zucchini seedlings. I have scoured the internet reading tips from all kinds of gardeners and I am hoping that I have found the correct method. I added a ton of compost and made small mounds. I ran string from the top cage arch to stakes in the ground for the vines to grow up. I started some pots of seeds using sweet peppers, Amana orange tomatoes, Great White Tomatoes, Cape Gooseberries, Chocolate Habaneros, and Francesca habaneros. Tomorrow I will add the hay to mulch the box replant my last crop of radishes, plant more green beans
The caterpillars have started to get into my tomatoes and we are out several times a day picking them off and feeding them to the girls. We seem to be staying on top of them without the use of nasty pesticides.
It will be a busy weekend out in the gardens. Our tomatoes have some orange color to them and I cannot wait to taste one of them! I will take some more pictures of the actual garden boxes tomorrow so you can see the results of the days work.
On another note I encountered a huge water snake in my back yard. Of course I had to get close to it's face to see if it had round pupils or slitted pupils. Luckily it turned out to be a Banded Water Snake.
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