Broccoli sprouts coming up, about six of them, I almost forgot I’d sown them because they look like radish sprouts, almost pulled ’em up. They took about ten days to sprout. Carrots getting large, they are very sweet. Green Onions also getting substantial. Pole beans have reached the top of they trellis. Cucumbers flowering already, three on one, I’m trying to train them up the trellis first before they ‘trail’, because they are a “bush cucumber”, not the regular climbing vine type.
The real news is that the tomatoes finally look fantastic! Lots of flowers on both kinds, the larger Oregon Spring and the small Sweet Cassidy ones. The latter is indeterminate and is about 4 feet tall now, finally started forming flower buds before we went out of town. Ten days later they are blooming! We set up a great watering system with drips in the tomato containers and mini-‘sprayers’ in each of the raised boxes. We keep the whole thing under stiff green netting while gone, but I can’t keep the tomatoes in that anymore, they won’t form well and may get diseased. Now if we can somehow kee the deer off of them,,,,,
The main planter box is still in netting. 4 New (some partial) rows of butter lettuce finally sprouting new leaves….I made sure to thin them out so I don’t eat the cramped plants that won’t leaf out key last time. They like the sunny 70’s weather we’re having now much better than the 80’s and 90’s of June.
Pole beans:
Bush Cucumbers:
Determinate tomato Oregon Spring (already has 2 big green tomatoes and a bunch of small ones):
Indeterminate Tomato Sweet Cassady:
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