Garden, Week 4
Hard to believe it's been 4 weeks already. Stuff is growing like crazy.
I put up a trellis on the north end of the bed for the tomatoes and cucumbers using 1/2" galvanized electrical conduit slipped over concrete rebar. It's attached to the side of the bed with conduit straps, and I used nylon trellis netting with zip ties for the plants to climb on. The whole thing is really sturdy and it was super cheap to make.
I also added some shade netting for the lettuce and some plant supports for the peppers.
One of the broccoli plants croaked... perhaps due to lack of water, but maybe it was just a bad plant. The others seem okay.
Cabbage worms have arrived. I don't understand how they find gardens... we've never had a garden here, and none of the neighbors have gardens. Miracle of nature I guess. At any rate, they've put a pretty good hurtin' on the cabbage plants. I picked off probably 30 or so, and then sprayed the cabbage and the broccoli with some pesticide. The label on the bottle says it's "for organic gardening" so hopefully it's okay (for eventually eating, not so much for achieving the lofty standard of "organic gardening").
The most exciting thing was finding a couple of very small tomatoes forming. Not sure what it is about tomatoes... I should love all of my plants equally (ha ha) but the tomatoes are just special.
I took these photos on a rainy Sunday morning. The great thing about a rainy morning in the 'burbs is that it's so quiet... nobody's running their damn lawnmower!
