caryn’s garden 2006 — week 10

Wow. I meant to update this sooner — I didn’t realize I went so long without a garden update.
So everything is still alive and things are growing. The squash plants — Delicata, and summer green and yellow — are absolutely thriving. Which is great, since we love us some squash. The watermelons are purring along as are the cucumbers, although something seems to have dug up one of my cucumber seed hills. The seeds nonetheless struggled through anyway.
As I may have mentioned, the only drawback is that things just aren’t growing very fast. Some of those things are plants I started as transplants and some were directly sown. I’m disappointed in the tomatoes and peppers I started as transplants from seeds I bought — they got to be about an inch high and then simply stopped growing. My hypothesis is that I started them in very tiny seed starter pots and I suspect that they might have eaten up all the nutrition in that soil and then just stopped growing.
Because of this, I got a couple of transplants for peppers and tomatoes just in case mine don’t produce any fruit — and at this point it’s highly doubtful they will — and as you can see from today’s picture, my sweet banana peppers, a transplant from the nursery, are starting to fruit. I picked up Brandywine heirloom transplants and I’ll likely also pick up a pear tomato plant or two since those are also very tiny.
But at least there are things starting to produce soon-to-be-edible foods now, such as my turnips. The beans are looking good and are beginning to flower, while the potato plants are just getting plain huge. I’ll have more pictures of those through the week.