Frustration Friday

No pictures today, dying plants aren't beautiful. It is day 2 of no rain, but they are calling for rain again Sunday. I am coming to grips with the fact that we will have to till up the following:

Broccoli
Cauliflower
Onions

I doubt we'll be able to salvage any of those plants.

We have also lost close to 1/2 of the jalapenos and green peppers. The tomatoes are showing little improvement but I am still holding out some hope for them. If I lose the tomatoes this garden project will be a complete failure.

Rain, Rain, GO AWAY

Rain, Rain, Go away. Come again.....in like three weeks. SERIOUSLY. I have had it with the rain. Not only does it affect my mood - it also has resulted in negative things happening in my garden.

Apparently, too much of a good thing (rain) is not a good thing with several plants. I can see things going drastically worse if someone doesn't turn off the faucet soon and for more than just a day. Below is a summary of plants that don't like this much rain.

Cauliflower:



Broccoli:



Jalapenos (sorry tilt your head and look for the little peppers):



Green Peppers:



Tomatoes:



You know what loves this water? Weeds. You'll have to excuse the huge mess of weeds, but I can hardly make it into the garden just to check on things without sinking down.

Something else that doesn't seem to care about the rain:



Zucchini. Oh well, they aren't overproducing...so I can handle a few a week. Hopefully, happy posts will return shortly. If I stop posting, I'm grieving the death of my garden.

Dried Up (Well, Dry Enough)

The monsoons finally stopped and the garden had an opportunity to dry out. The 92 degree days with 102 degree heat index probably didn't hurt, either. The aforementioned heat index did limit my time in the garden, yesterday.

Here are some updates:

Snow Peas: Yellowing and done. No longer producing pods.
Cantaloupe: Growing and potentially flowering.
Green Beans: Strong, no sort of pods yet,
Cauliflower: No clue. They are still growing, but I don't know.

I took some pictures of the more exciting items.

Tomatoes: Seeing fruit in good sizes. I would really like to see it dry out soon for the sake of the tomatoes, though.



Jalapenos: Little peppers on various plants. I am hoping the plants will grow some more - they are small right now.



Green Peppers: Similar to the jalapenos all the way around, I really would love to see the plants grow more.



Broccoli: The heads are coming! It's pretty exciting since I like broccoli a lot.



Zucchini: We have zucchini! I picked three yesterday. They are growing like crazy.





We tried out the zucchini on the grill last night and it was FANTASTIC!

Lots and Lots of Rain

We went out of town this weekend and returned to standing water. The corn field next to our house looks like it suffered some wind or hard rain damage, so we went out to see the garden.

I snapped a few pictures of the current status. Unfortunately, we are expecting more rain this week.

Green beans, cauliflower, broccoli, zucchini:



Onions, peppers and a tomato in the corner:



Watermelon area (it has been neglected, it was on the list for "weeding" this week):



On a positive note, I am starting to see growth throughout the garden. The broccoli has mini-crowns on it! This picture isn't great, but I was trying to not get muddy. The "crown" is right in between the big leaves.

It's The Little Things

Little things make me smile. The garden tends to do that often! I've picked lots of snow peas in the last week and there are even more out there now! The lettuce just keeps on growing! We've been eating lots of salads and sharing bags of lettuce with friends!

The discovery of the week goes to....



It's a little tomato! Surprisingly, these are on the beefsteak tomatoes! Just a little longer and we should have the long awaited first tomato of the summer!

The watermelon are also taking off. Or, I should say they are ready to take over their allotted space (and more). Maybe we'll have watermelon by the fourth of July? That would be awesome!



The zucchini are growing the most! This picture does not do the monstrosity that is this zucchini plant justice!



The only issues in the garden right now are little worms. Here is a great example of why I don't do organic. Broccoli:



I laughed as all the worms tried to escape my Sevin dusting! BWAHAHAHAHAHA

Growing Updates - Broccoli, Cauliflower, Snow Peas

I'm all giddy about the garden this year. Things are growing so well! I picked a few weeds today and checked on everything - things just keep on moving up! I'm very excited about how good the cauliflower and broccoli look! They reacted the worst to being transplanted, but have recovered so well!

Happy Broccoli:



In other news, my snow peas have emerged! I was so worried last week -- they must have heard me.

Newly emerged:



Others in the row (and a few weeds):