xFL Gardenx: November 2010

Sunday, November 28, 2010

News: Update 11/28

So were starting to get a bunch of grape and cherry tomatoes as well as cucumbers! We have picked 3 off already and have about 3 more nice sized ones to get! the broccoli is starting to come! Cauliflower not so much yet. The Bok Choy is big and beautiful, the pumpkin seed I planted is growing huge and is trained up a trellis, however its getting eaten alive. We lost the Zucchinis we first planted to powdery mildew that was starting to spread to the cucumbers and I didn't want that to happen so we just composted them. Also the Romas we haven't had much luck with, I think the plants are diseased because the stalks started to turn black... and the leaves just dried up and fell off... also the blossoms didn't develop correctly on the one plant so I topped them off and I'm letting the fruit that are on them ripen so I can get them out of the ground before they spread to the other tomatoes in the bed. My radishes are almost ready to harvest we tried about 15 seeds with them and they all took and grow so next time we will dedicate a larger spot for them so we can grow a bunch! The onions are doing pretty good I guess, the green pepper plants are looking beautiful but will not fruit, also they got kinda bent of the other day from this cold front due to all the wind so were gonna have to figure out what to do with them. We built an earth box out of a large Tupperware container and PVC for about 8 dollars and planted 2 pickling cucumbers and 2 yellow pear tomato plants in, in hope that when we get some frost we can just pull it in the garage. Were also working on cold covers for all the tomatoes so that when the frost does come we can protect them. I will get some pics up later or maybe just a video!