Garden Update

This year I have really enjoyed our garden. Everyone has pitched in and pulled weeds, watering, tying up tomatoes and inspecting pumpkins. There is something about growing your own food. I find it very tasty and rewarding. For instance today I had a cup of cherries, and salad from the garden. I will be having fresh peas for a snack later tonight.

One of my favorite peppers this year is called 'Holy Molé . It is not very hot but has a great spicy flavor. This plant is the first hybrid of its type and shows the hybrid vigor by producing a large number of peppers on each plant.

Look at the size of this pepper. Good stuff !

I love onions are one of my favorite foods and I grow it every year. Check out the size of this plant. The bulbs are just starting to form and will get three to four times larger than this. All of the white tissue is very tasty.

Jimmy and Richie are inspecting the okra and lettuce. Our okra has not been growing to well this year. We hope it will take off as the heat increases. The lettuce of choice in the Glassford garden is romaine.

Gotta love those beets. We picked some of these colorful leaves and put them in our salad.

Our peas will finish up their existence in our garden the middle of next week. After pulling up all the peas we will plant some more bush beans. We plant the variety blue lake for the string-less pods.

The cucumbers are setting fruit and are suppose to get 12-14 inches long. We have not grown this variety before and are looking forward to some tasty cuks.

Here is a shot of most the garden. You cannot see the pumpkins and some of the winter squash in this shot. These are growing in the orchard. We planted some pole beans along kennel fence and look for them to start climbing soon.

Since we are having a giant pumpkin growing contest I wanted to show you how the plants are doing. The pumpkin above is Grandpa G's. Notice the two liter pop container he is using for a watering device. I plan to use a similar system to provide water for my vine roots. I will share my set up later.

The large pumpkin plant here is all the Richard's (three of us) pumpkins.

This is Little Richie and my pumpkin. This pumpkin has the largest stems and will soon take over all pumpkins in the patch. At least this is my prediction.

Jimmy's pumpkin is doing very well. His started off the best and we are starting to catch him. He will be hard to beat with his early growth and his pumpkin dedication.

This is one of the fruits from Jimmy's pumpkin. We are starting to get many little fruits but so far they are not in position for us to keep them. Within the next week we will have a pumpkin set.

Mine is much fuzzier and we also have some green round fruits instead of yellows. We will keep you posted on the garden and hope you enjoyed seeing some of our successes.
Happy Gardening !