This is the garden as seen from the street. The tomatoes are about 2 feet tall now, and are starting to fill in the cages. I weeded them and put a nice layer of leaves down to keep the moisture in during the day (for as long as is possible in Florida lol).
This week I put corn seed and bush beans in the ground. Two weeks ago, I put in zucchini, Jackpot squash and a couple of cucumber seeds. The little white markers show the zuke and cuke and squash plantings - I weeded in here also this week, and "may" have accidentally pulled the jackpot squash, but I'll have to wait and see what grows.
The tomato that is performing the best in garden, filling the cage nicely. The one in front of it already has 3 tomatoes on it, a little larger than golf balls.
My pepper plants are finally starting to grow. Five of the six that I started with survived, the other disappeared and got weeded by accident I think. For a while they just sat there, but now they seem to have taken to the idea of growing in actual ground. You can see they are only about 6 inches at best at this point though.
Hard to see, but I have three tomato plants that I have roped between the fence and the plastic PVC pipe stakes. They were not expected to survive, but they are still alive, not as healthy looking as the others, but still not so bad considering I left them for dead. I have two others next to the A/C condenser that aren't as well off, but one of those has a blossom... go figure?
My two potted tomato plants. The one on the left is doing the best of all the plants I have, it has 4 dozen blossoms on it right now (opened, about to, or just closed) and I don't know how many that are going to be ready to open in a week or two. We will be enjoying a lot of spaghetti sauce! The other plant is doing well also, and you can see just to the right there a wet spot where my two other plants are. The two in the buckets were put into the remaining soil that I had in the garage, and I suspect that really helped a lot in their taking to the buckets. I will probably have to transplant them, or make mini-cages for them so they can grow up.All told, I started with 12 tomato plants, and currently all 12 have survived, 7 of which are thriving right now. I started with 6 pepper plants, 5 have survived, and they are doing well. I have a lot of onions, but I don't really know when I pull them, they are still green, and the ones I have pulled have just been the shallot type. My lettuce, well, just isn't doing so well. I am going to go in there and trim it back, but I let it go for a while, and now I don't know what's a weed and what isn't (some I can see, but others not so).
