June 16th Overview

Since I was writing about the leaf miners (see last post) I thought I might as well post an overview update.

The garden continues to grow well. It’s early and overcast this morning. The two largest chard & sunflower plants continue to get bigger but the others are growing as well.

Next door the Siletz tomatoes are getting bigger.

The much-abused herb box is hanging on. I think maybe the plastic mulch covers should be used the way the Earthbox site recommends. The open box doesn’t seem to be doing as well. I had thought the plants would cover the box and provide their own cover.

The Thai tomatoes continue to do well. The smaller ones had fallen over today. I tried pushing them a bit deeper in the soil with the hope that the root buds would take root and provide them with more stability. I also added a stake to help support them.

Since taking out the arugula and spinach there is an empty row in the salad box but the new lettuce seeds should be coming up. The Tom Thumb lettuce has done really well.

I’m fairly pleased with the garden at this point. It’ll be interesting to see how things continue to develop. Several of the sunflowers are taking off while a few are still growing slowly. Maybe they’re just not getting as much sun as they would like? If we can get some nicer weather it might help. I guess we’ll just see how it goes and plan for the future when we’re able to do a larger garden.