How are your veggie gardens?

We have peppers! And teeny little zucchini! We've never grown zucchini before and they are adorable little things. (My GF told me to keep an eye on the zucchini; they go from little to baseball bats in the blink of an eye. )We have some wee little acorn squashes coming, too. The green beans have tendrils and flowers, but no beans yet. The tomatoes are covered with flowers.

I picked five peppers the other day....something happened to the plant and it's dying off. So I took them even though they weren't red yet. They're Mariachi peppers and have a bit of heat to them. But I added them to a chicken stir-fry and they were delicious. The fifth pepper was a big mild banana pepper....DH and I split that one and added it to a sandwich. Yum.

The broccoli flower is growing, but not doing much else.

Mine is doing great. I had some problems early on with squirrels digging up my plants and I lost some nice plants that way, but now things seem to be under control. My tomato plants have flowers and we should have tomatoes soon. I also have a few hot peppers and mini-bell peppers starting to show up. The lettuce, herbs and swiss chards are also doing well.

We enlarged our patio and laid new sod, and the workers trampled over most of my plants, but I have green tomatoes and ripe grape tomatoes (yum), and serrano peppers. The bell peppers haven't produced yet. I also have small zucchini. I planted cucumbers, but nothing on them yet. Next year, without the disruption, my garden should be fantastic! I also didn't get a lot of additives in the ground first, but I've been fertilizing with Miracle Grow liquid.

Sounds wonderful!!

My veggie garden still doesn't exist yet... I thought we'd be in a house by now, but alas, that did not happen. However, this other one we're going for is moving along, the inspection will be done tomorrow and appraisal hopefully by the weekend too, and if that all goes well, then, while I might miss out on a veggie garden this summer, there are 4 fruit trees!!! So I will at least have lots of lemons, and eventually apples and tangerines!!

People at church pass us along all the vegetables we need. We used to have a garden, but our property is surrounded by farmland and crops on three sides. I didn't like sitting on a bucket to pick beans with my back to the cornfield. Too many bears, foxes, bobcats, and coyotes roam around here.

My ONE tomato plant (in the TopsyTurvy) is on it's last leg now since temps have been in the 100s and it's dry as a bone here. (actually, we've been lucky with our temperatures...they're running lower than normal!!) I'm still harvesting tomatoes, but not for long now!

My yellow bell pepper plant is doing pretty well...have several small peppers on it. They LOVE the heat. I have one strawberry that I'm not sure if it will every fully grow big enough to eat or not. At one point I had 3 berries, but they never made it.

Originally Posted by Winchester

We have peppers! And teeny little zucchini! We've never grown zucchini before and they are adorable little things. (My GF told me to keep an eye on the zucchini; they go from little to baseball bats in the blink of an eye.

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Good luck with the zucchini! Your post makes me wonder if they can be eaten young, or maybe not (bitter?)

The zuccini flowers are good too!

Originally Posted by c1atsite

Good luck with the zucchini! Your post makes me wonder if they can be eaten young, or maybe not (bitter?)

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I'm not sure about the bitterness or how small they can be to be eaten. I do know that they should be eaten when they're fairly small versus allowing them to become huge. Hopefully we'll find out. I'm excited about growing them.

Originally Posted by Yosemite

The zuccini flowers are good too!

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I have heard that the lightly sauteed flowers are really delicious. Hmmm, maybe I'll have to try some!

We planted our beans, lettuce, spinich, tomatoes and peppers mid to end of May. With the nice rains we've been getting, everything is doing well - all of the plants have buds/flowers on them now.

The lettuce is growing well - we might get to pick our first batch by end of June. God has blessed our garden very well so far.

The funny thing was I had planted a red and a green pepper plant. The red one was fine but for about a week the green one was "dying". I only watered them good twice (rest of the time is was rain). So I thought I'd have to replace the pepper plant.

But God had other ideas - after a week of wilted dying leaves, all of a sudden the plant was back in shape - I really did nothing to it at all - whatever was wrong with it, apparently God fixed it!

My garden has been a little slow to start this year. Temps went weeks without getting much past 65, and rained constantly (I live in a desert, it should be dry as a bone here and 85+ degrees). Now it's getting up close to 80, occasionally higher, and everything is going nuts. Tomatoes are full of flowers, zucchini are finally flowering. I put peas and lettuce out in early april. Not sure what happened, but they grew a tiny bit and stopped. It's as if they've been dormant. Once it got warmer, the peas went nuts. The lettuce still isn't doing anything. Not sure why.

We only planted tomatoes, and they're doing great. I am so proud of the three plants that I grew from seed. They were so little when I set them out that I had to put big rocks next to them so I'd be able to find them. To our surprise, they lived, grew strong, and now are blooming. The larger plants that DH bought at the hardware store are full of green tomatoes.

Ours is doing really well considering it was so late when we planted. Our 3 tomato plants have blooms and 2 of our 3 green pepper plants have itty bitty peppers on them and more blooms. The squash, watermelon and cucumber vines are taking off but the groundhogs ate most of our brocolli plants so now we only have stumps. The best is the one tomato plant we bought at a farmers market and planted in a pot...MEGA tomatoes!!

We still have seeds to plant but is it too late to actually plant seeds?

Originally Posted by mrsgreenjeens

My ONE tomato plant (in the TopsyTurvy) is on it's last leg now since temps have been in the 100s and it's dry as a bone here. (actually, we've been lucky with our temperatures...they're running lower than normal!!) I'm still harvesting tomatoes, but not for long now!

My yellow bell pepper plant is doing pretty well...have several small peppers on it. They LOVE the heat. I have one strawberry that I'm not sure if it will every fully grow big enough to eat or not. At one point I had 3 berries, but they never made it.

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I didn't get my tomatoes in early enough so didn't get a crop before it got too hot. I have one little tomato growing now. I just hope it gets ripe before it dries up. If I can keep the plants alive through the summer I usually get a second crop in September.

Originally Posted by c1atsite

Good luck with the zucchini! Your post makes me wonder if they can be eaten young, or maybe not (bitter?)

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The small ones are usually sweeter than the large ones. I don't think the size has anything to do with ripeness.

Originally Posted by c1atsite

Good luck with the zucchini! Your post makes me wonder if they can be eaten young, or maybe not (bitter?)

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My understanding is that you should collect the first zucchinis early so that the plant will produce more.

Unlike last year, mine's doing very well! (I try to grow most of our vegetables and fruit.). I've been picking strawberries (very good ones this year) since May. I even had 2 tiny orange cherry tomatoes last week! That's the earliest I've ever harvested. I've eaten the Red Sails leaf lettuce, and lots of black raspberries. My new dwarf peach tree has several peaches ripening, and my Mars grape vines are producing their 1st harvest (about 12-24 bunches), as are the Concord grapes. I even managed to coax my dwarf citrus trees (Meyer Lemon & Key Lime) back to life after planting them outside (the cats "killed" them by using the pots as litter boxes. I had no idea they were doing this until it was too late). They literally were leafless twigs. I'll have to dig them up, & take inside in the winter, though. Must invent the "Kitty Shield"!

The peas are ready to harvest; the beets, carrots, cucumbers, potatoes. turnips, peppers, herbs, pumpkins, green beans, garlic, blackberries, apple trees, pear tree (a 5-type, grafted tree) are growing nicely. The cats are VERY happy that the catnip is thriving!

My few flowers are thriving. I planted nasturtiums and leaf lettuce around the base of my potted dwarf Patio Peach tree, which gets lovely purple leaves. I do a lot of underplanting to save space. My garden is in slices around the house--no room for a standard veggie garden plot. Some of my veggie garden is in pots on my deck. We just rennovated the deck in May, and, even though not painted yet, it looks so pretty with all of the potted flowers and veggies. I think vegetable and herb plants are beautiful too!

Well the weeds in my veg garden are growing amazing well! I've spent about 12 hours this weekend weeding and still have 6 rows left to weed. They are about 35 feet long so they take about an hour each. Had to replant the green beans as they didn't germinate. Some of the potatoes rotted so I planted some mixed lettuce seed in one spot. Planted the last variety of corn-a solid yellow for freezing. Its a bit late to plant but we had so much wet weather the past week.

In fact for having sandy soil and know no rain since Wed the spaces between the rows is still well the soil is still wet. So I know I've have lots of rain.

The raspberries look fabulous is a heavy crop this year. The cherries well won't be very good I had a heavy crop last year so this one is going to be very small.

Many weeds and plant maintenance needed all over my yard though. My goal is to get all plants in ground (mainly perennials and some annuals) by this weekend. Then that's it for plant buying this year unless I see something really too good to pass up.

My herb garden is doing very well with the plants that returned from last year. The strawberries are producing a lot of fruit but they have slugs.
I started my veggie garden late so the plants are still small but seem to be doing well. I put some zucchini under row covers in hopes that I can keep them safe from the squash vine borers that killed them the other times I tried to grow zucchini, so fingers crossed there.