More weeding and Thinning...

Here's a photo of some lovely bush flower out by the gravel entrance/parking area of the community garden.


It was a beautiful day, and I had bought some pepper plants that needed to be transplanted to our garden. There are two banana peppers and one Caribbean hot pepper (the picture on the tags really looked like scotch bonnet peppers, we shall see). I've got them slotted in between the bean poles, to make use of every nook and cranny we have left.


We sowed the zucchini seeds today as well. They had to be sowed into dirt mounds that were 2 foot apart. We planted for 6 plants, which we are hoping that 4 will take strong hold - this will provide plenty of zucchinis for us.


We also transplanted 4 tomoto plants at 3.5 weeks old to see if they will take hold. The seeds were incredibaly profuse in germinating, and of the 48 seeds sowed indoors, about 45 grew! So needless to say, we have A LOT of tomotoe plants. We'll be giving some away to friends with veggie gardens too. Our tomato plant is the Tiny Tim cherry tomato variety.


Jason giving the plants and flowers a good soaking with our newly purchased water sprayer head... sure makes it easier than trying to use our fingers or thumb to create some sort of assymetrical mist.

Today we also had to thin out the Swiss chard plantlings to 4-6" apart. It felt odd to pull out healthy looking seedlings, but it had to be done, otherwise they will fight for nutrients and space, and we wouldn't get very large vegetables in the end.

Weeding in the rain

It was a drizzly and wet day today. We weren't sure if we had waned to stay, but since we were there and the plots really need some weeding, we did stay for about 2 hours. By the end of that, we were ready for a nice hot shower to warm ourselves up.

Some of the seedlings were hard to distinguish from the weedlings. Plants that did sprout up by this point: Carrots, Dill, Kale, Beets, Swiss Chard (green and Ruby variaties) and radishes.


Radish seedlings in the foreground.



Swiss Chards with their baby leaves. As you can see, the seeds get planted close to buffer the possibility of failed seeds.



This is a baby Radish plant. The seeds were only planted 6 days before this photo. In two weeks we should be able to see the radish bulb itself, and a week after that, harvest time!!



Our green poles with freshly planted pole beans. We've planted green beans and yellow wax beans. Can't wait to see these grow up the poles!



Green and Ruby Swiss Chards, and Marigolds to help keep insects at bay. Unfortunately, it seems that slugs like to eat Marigolds, and in this area of the garden, as we are right by the waterway, there are way too many slugs! At least the slugs are eating the flowers :) and not the seedlings.