Check out these areas today:
First off, I know I should have taken the pictures in the same spot both times to get a true comparison. As it stands, the top picture from last month and the top picture from this month show basically the same area, but from opposite sides of the raised bed.
So, as a point of comparison, in the top photo, at the top left you see a small eggplant plant in a cage. In the first recent picture on the left there is the same cage with the growth of that eggplant easy to see. Another easily noted comparison is that in the first picture there is a small dill plant on the bottom left of the picture. In the top recent picture, at the back of the raised bed, you can see a very large dill plant with lots of yellow flowers on it. Yes, it has totally gone to seed now, but there is still some useable dill on there, and we are working on learning how to keep the herbs harvested enough so that they don't all keep bolting.
The better comparison is in the second raised bed. This is the second picture in the top set and the bottom two in the recent one. In this short time, the pumpkin and spaghetti squash have grown A LOT! We actually measured it one day and saw that it is growing about 6 inches a day. That mass of leaves and flowers that you see pretty much taking over that bed and spreading out on all sides is the same plants that you see so nice and tidy in the picture above! And, we didn't even keep all of them, we thinned them out some from the first shot, we only left three of each. We even have a baseball sized pumpkin now on one of them. Crazy.
On the side of our house, the tomato plants have made great progress too:
This particular section has grown a bunch, but no red tomatoes yet like the ones in pots. Though, this is probably due to the ones in the pots being stunted. For example, we have tomatoes that are the same variety, one is in the ground and one is in a pot. The ones in the pot are smaller, but turning red. The ones in the ground are significantly bigger, but still green. Either way, they are both growing and doing well. Still, I ended up buying some tomatoes last week for a recipe because we still have so few of them they aren't enough for a week. Maybe soon those as more are ripening daily.
Though I didn't take a picture of our sweet peppers today, we did have enough of a harvest to use them in a recipe this week. Paired with an onion from our CSA and some organic cage free chicken, we made delicious fajitas!
One last random picture that that had nothing at all to do with the garden but was really cute was this one with Argon:
This bag was randomly on the couch and I was cracking up watching him really burrow beneath it, and then just lay there... I have no idea why he wanted to be under the bag, but apparently that is where he wanted to be. I had Blake hand me the camera so that I could take the picture. Also, he has a strange habit of trying to go under the covers of our bed too and just stay there. If I throw something on him, like a bathrobe, he will just lay down underneath it, totally content. He apparently is a cat that loves to be under things. Just thought it was cute.
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