Sunday, June 30, 2013

Browning "surprise" onions, watermelons on trellis, a flower box, and too much rain!

We've had a lot of rain over the last week+.  Many days in a row with a fair amount of rain in each cloudburst.  All of that makes me glad that my boxes end up giving the effect of raised beds, improving drainage.  Even still, the scarlet runner beans have a yellowish tinge to them and some of the tomato plants have some spots on them similar to what I saw last year when I was an over-watering maniac.

That being said, the rest of the plot is looking good.
  • Most of the peppers are growing well -- the lone exception is one that I had to transplant twice because its two forefathers got eaten off down to the ground by something right after they were transplanted.  
  • The beans are growing pretty well even if they are the target of the dreaded Mexican Bean Beetle.  
  • Tomatoes are generally doing well - the larger two volunteers have tomatoes on the vine with a few of my started plants just getting flowers.  The flower box with the volunteer tomato in the middle is particularly pretty.
  • Cucumbers are slowly growing -- I need to get a trellis in place soon.
  • Three of the four ground cherries are growing well.  They are getting nibbled on by some sort of bug, though.
  • Some of the petunias are looking nice.  I took a picture of the best of the lot.
I applied some bug dust to the tops and bottoms of the bean leaves since the neem oil was doing nothing for that problem.  I also did the same for the ground cherries.  I also continued with removing the bottom lower limbs of the tomato plants to encourage air movement as well as allowing light to get to carrots and radishes.  The watermelons were encouraged further up the trellis.

The surprise onions are browning off and should be ready to be harvested shortly.  The snow peas are also just about done.

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