9th and 10th Harvest 10-1-08 and 10-7-08

9th Harvest ........................................................................ 10th Harvest



October and the tomato plants are still growing.

8th Harvest 9-2-08

Starting to wind down. Probably the last of the Cucumbers on the vines. Maybe 3 to 5 more will make it. Patio tomatoes are done, but the Roma's may yet have another run., if the cold nights don't get them first!

7th Harvest 8-25-08

An Ok Crop i'm letting the cucs get bigger

6th Harvest 8-17-08

Another good Roma crop

5th Harvest 8-12-08

Only 1 of the twins made it see (07/29). ------------- This appears to be Powdery mildew.

I'll treat it with milk and water and hope for the best. I don't want to use chemicals but may have no choice.
This may be why one of the last batch had bitter skins. However just peeling off the skins makes them ok to eat.
Darn 90 degree weather, which is one of the things that cause it.

4th Harvest 8-7-08

Pretty good tomato crop.

3rd Harvest 8-2-08

70 degrees...........................................................................................92 degrees

Drooping must be their way of sweating, as the temperature drops they perk back up.

2nd Harvest 7-29-08

Things have really taken off. I've started to prune the leaves from all but the Patio plant. This should help produce bigger fruit.

Look Twins! Gonna watch these two and see how fast they grow.

1st Harvest 7-19/22-08

Man cucumbers grow double in size overnight. Before I knew it, these had to be picked! General logic says do not let them get over 8-10 inches, or they might get bitter. Also pick them before they turn yellow.

7/19.............................................. 7/22

7-12-08

Things are coming along nicely; all the plants seem to like the fencing. Tomatoes and Cucs are starting to grow ! The little guy doesn’t need a fence….

Fruit!

7-1-08

Last year, (see previous 07' posts), things got really out of hand, and the plants almost took over. This year I decided to reign in the plants by using some fencing and tying them down.






Burbless Cucumbers
There are 4 plants here.

Roma Tomatoes
There are 2 plants here.

And this was supposed to be a Cherry Tomato plant, but someone put it in the wrong section and I did not look at the plant marker, which shows it as "Patio Tomatoes" which are hybrids designed to grow in pots, and don't produce many branches. Oh well, live and learn, always check the care and feeding tag to be sure of plant type.

5-5-08

So it's May 5th and it's time to start my Garden! I decided for this year I would try Tomatoes, and Cucumbers. I got the Tomato seedlings from Lowe's and the Cucumbers from Suzy's boss (Bob A.). I believe he got them from a Garden Fair, which sets up downtown Chicago. A big thanks to him, cause these plants seem like they're going to be heavy producers!

To give the plants a good start i replaced most of the dirt from the planting holes with "Miracle Grow Garden Soil" which I lined the holes with as well as packing the plants to the soil line.I figured this would be a good start. I also decided to use "Miracle-Gro LiquaFeed" to water and feed at the same time.

(Sorry due to illness I did not get pics of the baby plants).