In the last few days, flowers have formed on our fruits and vegetables. The sugar snap peas are just about ready to harvest from the looks of it. They are doing very well, the shade cloth has been removed from them and they started climbing very quickly up the trellis fencing I built for them.
We are waiting for them to plump up more but soon enough those peas are ready.
With around ten sugar snap pea vines growing we hope to have many peas by the summer time.
Since its vining, it grabs the fence and climbs its way up.
They have little white flowers that form, they are self pollinating so no need for insects to visit them.
The greens are doing well in the bed next to the peas, I started them last year and kept them going under lights until this spring when I planted them.
In the bed next to the peas and greens we have some wild peas growing and peppers.
They seem to be growing quite slowly. I will put the shade cloth back up to help them recover.
Seems the peppers in that bed need more cover too, they are a little more yellow than the ones covered by the shade cloth. So I think they need some cover for awhile again.
I have a few beds with shade cloth and peppers, so having some covered and others not helps me to see how they handle it.
The Trinidad scorpion pepper plants are holding on. Hopefully they will start growing more, they have not done much since planting.
Under the clay there is garden soil, its hard to say if I used enough. Next year I can always add more if they struggle again this year.
The cantaloupe plants have started to flower, no fruits showing up yet but we hope to see them soon.
Ginger is coming up in this bed, we had it covered by shade cloth but the plants were starting to touch the cloth so I moved it off.
The brussels sprouts are not doing much. Hoping they grow those stalks that have the tasty bits on it.
The lettuces have been getting bigger. We planted some green and red types, soon we can start eating them.
We took the shade cloth off them a few weeks ago and they seem to be doing good.
Some of the tomato beds are doing better than others. This one is recovering, we had some shade cloth that was too short not covering them well. So the sun was getting through and burning them. Now we put on some better sized shade cloth they seem to be recovering.
I will put cages on them once they get stronger.
One of the beds is doing very well, and now they are forming flowers.
Having the cages on them now so they can grow as fast as they want. Its hard to get it on once they get big.
With a bunch of flowers its only a matter of time until we have fruit on these four tomato plants.
One of the flowers has already started to open.
These seem the most happy of the all the beds with tomatos.
Another bed has tomatoes already forming.
More flowers more fruit.
So small yet producing fruit, hopefully the plant gets bigger.
The swiss chard was the most recently planted, we just uncovered the shade cloth and they seem to be doing alright.
My cannabis plants are bushing out quite a lot. Probably four feet tall now.
With their big holes and more garden soil used I think these should do really well.
With the hot summer days on the way, I need to keep an eye on them and see how they handle it. Though I think they will do well, being a South African strain.
The beds have been holding up well.
And we got most of the horse show beds filled, just one I need to add more dirt to but these two in the picture are filled with cantaloupe, tomato, broccoli, and cauliflower. Some of those may be cold weather crops, oops.. did not realize that until after we started some of them.
More cantaloupe in these beds, they seem to be doing good. We just uncovered them.
The spinach plants have new leaves forming, hopefully they grow more too soon.
They look a little yellow on the old leaves, but the new ones at the middle look more happy. Maybe I should trim off the yellow ones.
Many potatoes planted too, some golden and red types.
I will let these grow until the autumn and then collect the spuds under the soil.
Its all coming along, we go out there every day to see if they need water. Sometimes the rains help but its been pretty dry the last month so we are hoping for more soon. In the mean time I have my watering solution and its working for us.
