Finally a garden update! It's been about a month since the last. I've taken pictures, but have not gotten around to updating. Everything is looking pretty good these days, though we had a little miss-step with the cucumbers. They didn't get watered often enough during a pretty hot week and they look a little sad as a result. They are still producing cucumbers, but not as many as they were before said miss-step.
This is the first time we have ever grown peppers... so I am having trouble deciding what to do or think about some of our peppers. So I could use any feedback. Some of the peppers are one color green and others are a more yellow green. I can't remember which are supposed to turn what colors... but I've been checking the yellowy looking ones for two weeks becuase I was just sure they were going to turn a brighter yellow or another color any day now... but now I am not so sure. I have no idea how long to wait and I'm starting to get concerned they they might go bad if I don't pick them soon.
And then there's our tomatoes. They look delightful and I am dying for them to turn red. All of our in ground plants are covered in tomatoes at every stage. So when they do start to turn red we're going to have more tomatoes than we know what to do with! (I can't wait!)
And then we have the cherry tomatoes, which are in our topsy turveys. They are healthy, but not really producing much yet. They were planted about a month after the other tomatoes though, so I expect they will pick up later this month. Right now we have one adorable little cherry tomato.
I will have to do an update on the herb garden soon as well. It is doing great. But I have to laugh at my first attempt at cilantro. It was a mess. I made the mistake of getting it from the garden center already pretty grown... and so litterally a week or two after I planted it the plant bolted. I was annoyed until I read online about the seeds and realized I could not only get some corriander out of this blunder, but I could also get some seeds to start my own from seed next time. I didn't bargin for the CRAZY amount of seeds that would come from this thing though. There are probably a hundred seed pods on it. I'm just waiting till the turn brown to collect them. I collected a few today, but I expect to collect many many more very soon.
And lastly. This little bugger. I hate these things. I don't have any clue if they are harmful to my pepper plants (anyone? anyone? bueller? bueller?), but one of the dorms I stayed in during college had these all over the place. I refuse to do anything about this thing, unless I find I need to for the health of my peppers... and mostly because the crunching sound that is made when you squish them is revolting... and of course... they stink... because they are stink bugs. Needless to say, I was less than thrilled to find them hanging around the garden.
