I harvested my first tomatoes EVER!!!

Yippee! After last years tomato blight and having to rip out and throw away plants with bright red ROTTING tomatoes on them I am so proud and excited to have harvested healthy tomatoes this year :D I have more ripening as we speak.

I almost killed my entire garden yesterday when I was spraying it with organic

fungicide. I had half a bottle of concentrate and within a minute it was all gone!! There was a kink in the hose which meant that I was spraying my garden with concentrated UNDILUTED fungicide. I immediately smelled a strong vinegar smell. I unkinked the hose and just sprayed the crap out of my garden with water. The already sick cuke plants took the most damage to the leaves. I pruned all the damage. They are still alive this morning. Fingers crossed they survive!

This was yesterdays harvest. The lettuce is almost gone. I have a new crop growing in my nursery.

8-14-10 garden update

I took the above photos this morning.

HARVESTS

These were harvested yesterday.

The photos above and below were harvested within the last two weeks.

CUKES

I took these photos a week ago before a harvest. I am loving the trellis. Unfortunately, it has not done much to help prevent fungal/bacterial infection.

These leaves are on one of my three sickest cuke plants. the cukes on the sick plants are still growing, I'm not sure how it will effect them (size, taste, etc.) if at all.

LETTUCE

I'm still harvesting the outer leaves. I've been finding that if I rinse the leaves, store them in an open plastic bag for a few days before eating it makes them much tastier. My second row of younger lettuce is not ready for harvest yet and is hidden behind my huge summer squash plant leaves.

TOMATOES

They are hanging in there and still disease free. I'm just starting to see ripening ones and hoping they stay disease free until harvest. I've been pruning and spraying frequently with fungicide. My tomato, green bean and lettuce plants are staying healthy but the cuke, summer squash and zuke plants are very infected.

SUMMER SQUASH AND ZUKES

My squash plants are heavily infected with powdery mildew but are still producing.

I am down to 2 zuke plants. The two that were in the middle row never produced despite my best hand pollinating efforts so I pulled them out. The trellised zuke plant is doing well and I will be definetly be trellising all of them next year.

Out of all the female zuke flowers I have hand pollinated only 4 have reached maturity and been harvested. These are the most current zukes I have hand pollinated. Fingers crossed they make it!

GREEN BEANS

The oldest row is on a second round of blossoms and starting to produce. The youngest row are extremely tall for some reason. I planted fewer seeds in this row so I don't know if the tall growth is due to the plants having more room for the roots or what.

CABBAGE

My two remaining heads of cabbage are swiss cheese. I'm not pulling them yet because I'd rather have the bugs eat this than my nursery seedlings close by.

THE FALL VEGGIE NURSERY

Almost all the seeds I sowed have sprouted. I have to thin them soon.