State of the Garden August 1st

As of August 1st, the garden is good.  Not great, but good.  The three cucumbers are doing the best, especially the one I snuck into the landscape.  I trained it up the southwest corner gutter, right by the stairs.  We are making all kinds of cucumber dishes and giving them away. 

The Thai Sun Chili plants, two in pots and one in the southside landscape.  The two in the pots are doing better.  We are getting chilis now.  Damn, they're Hot!  We've made a Thai dish, and I'm making curry tomorrow!  The Jalapeno Pepper plant I picked up late and plopped just west of the garden box is doing well.  I prepped this soil with store bought compost, Espoma Garden Tone fertilizer and some peat moss.  we have five peppers on it.  The are hard.  We ate one tonight in the strawberry salsa on our halibut fish tacos.  Good flavor.  The two bell pepper plants are doing fair.  There is one in the garden box and one west of the box.  Each has one pepper on it and they are not big.  Lame.  The  two Anaheims,  two Pakistani,  Scotch Bonnet and the Red Slim Chilis are doing well.  All have peppers, but are not ripe.  

We've got a few tomatoes of the Stupice tomato plant.  They were alright.  The two Super100 cherry tomato plants are exploding and are starting to ripen.  The Big Beef, Better Boy, Big Boy, Black Krim have tomatoes, but not a lot.  None have started to ripen. 

The carrots are doing well.  We pulled one a couple week ago, just to see how they were developing.  Looked good! 

The red and white onion have all pretty much have been destroyed. 

The Green Beans were rockin early.  We had about eight serving of them till now.  The beans are being eaten by...

The Bean Leaf Beetle.  Stupid beetles.  The Green Bean leaves look like Swiss Cheese! 

The Radicchio is doing alright.  It's not turning red, though, so we haven't eaten any of it yet. 

The peas all wilted from the bottom up.  Turned yellow, dried up and died. 

The Sugar Baby Watermelons are disappointing.  They were doing so well and then they hit a wall.  All the small melons that were forming all stopped growing, turned yellow and black, so I cut them all off.  All the flowers dried up and went away.  The vines are still growing, but that's it.  There are two larger melons still there, but they have not grown in weeks. 

Alright.  That's enough.  I am just rambling on!  Good night, and good gardening.

Ha! No, seriously, I'm going to bed.