Progress Report - UPDATE 08062009

[MoniDew]

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This is what my salad bed looks like today. I've harvested a couple of salads out of it so far this season. It looks a little sparce after I thinned out the weaklings. But it will fill in - if I let it!


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Close up of oak leaf lettuce - gorgeous! wish you could see the true color. It just glows with a natural light!


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Leaf lettuce, looking so pretty!

[MoniDew]

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This is my tomatoes & peppers bed. Someone asked me what I planted and I didn't have it in front of me at the time. I just ran out and took notes - so here they are:

L to R Tomatoes: Yellow 1884, Cherokee Purple, Creole, Sweetie, Black Brandywine, Amish Paste, Sioux, Teton DeVenus, German Johnson

L to R Peppers: Beaver Dam, Keystone Giant, Sweet Banana (already has a big pepper on it! YEAY!) Sweet Chocolate, Jimmy Nardellos, Big Jim


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There's the great big banana pepper!


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Nasturtiums after a good soak. Looking a little like Cinderella after the stepsisters got through with her! Still, you can tell, she's a beauty.


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Big, strong Mr Broccoli! What a handsome man!

[Garden Green]

What a wonderful garden you've got growing! It all looks so wonderful!

[gardengirl72]

The garden looks fantastic Monica! I'm growing cherokee purple this year as well. What a fantastic weed free garden.

[MoniDew]

The garden looks fantastic Monica! I'm growing cherokee purple this year as well. What a fantastic weed free garden.

I hope I can keep it weed free, too! :D This is my first year with raised beds, and, so far - I'm SOLD! Patti, you're absolutely right!

[MoniDew]

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little baby pumpkins

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little baby yellow zucchini

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beautiful zucchini blossom, as yet unfurled

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tomatoes, lots of green growth, plenty of flowers, as yet no tomatoes!! What's up with that?!

[MoniDew]

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gorgeous little pumpkins! hopefully, we'll get enough pumpkins for each of the grandkids to get one!

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I've decided that there really is no GOOD way to take a picture of zucchini. No matter what angle you shoot at, it just looks WRONG! LOL! But, we're getting TONS of little zucchinis as you can see!

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little baby butternut squash!

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FINALLY getting a few tomatoes! (still no peppers) what a rough year it's been for tomatoes!