Garden Update

The first picture is the garden in June, just budidng, and the second is a pic of the garden in mid July.  We've already harvested spinach, lettuce, and beans.

(This is our spinach and lettuce picked and in the sink ready to wash).  I didn't realize this before, but home grown spinach is quite a bit stronger in flavor and adds quite a bite to my spinach and fruit smoothies I make.

Our tomato plants were doing great up until about a week ago.  The leaves at the bottom of the plant started turning yellow, and I knew there was something wrong. 

After looking online and reading up on some materials, we concluded that it had to be one of three things:

1. They have been getting too much water

2.  They consumed all of the nutrients in their pots and needed more fertilizer (nitrates)

3.  They had grown out of their pots and the roots needed more space

We concluded that we needed to transplant our tomato plants into a larger pot.  We have 6 plants, so we put 3 in the ground, and 3 in 5 gallon pots (so we can bring them inside for the winter).  Did you know that tomato plants, if under the right conditions, will fruit for two years?

We also added some organic fertilizer to give them more nutrients.  We are hoping this helps the plants to recover from our neglect and ignorance :)  One thing we noticed this morning, is that our squirrels in the area are plucking our green tomatoes and taking them home with them.  Those sneaky creatures!  Now we're going to have to net them off or something.  Also, it RAINED and POURED so hard that our poor plants were all squished to the ground!!  We may have to put some kind of tarp over the garden in heavy rainfall.  We've seen other people with roofs over their garden and we were wondering why.  The question is now answered!

Our Bell Peppers!  Can't wait to start eating them!!