Here's Duncan's corn plant. It's not doing to well. We made sure to give it plenty of water and sun light the past couple days, but so far it hasn't really helped. When we left to AZ, we put about a half inch of water in the tray in hopes that the plant would suck it up as needed. Maybe that didn't really help it. Anyhow, we're still watering it, and hopefully it will spring back.
Here's the double view this week. It's been two weeks since the last picture, to the growth is a bit more dramatic. I'm just happy the soaker hose kept them all going while we were gone.
In box 1- The broccoli is doing AWESOME! The bell pepper plant is also doing well. The yellow squash seems ok, but I thought it would be doing better. The strawberries are still small, but I don't know if that's how they're suppose to be. They have berries on them, so I guess the trick is to keep the bugs and/or birds from getting them before we do. The watermelon is doing quite poorly. I don't know if the soaker hose wasn't seeping water onto it very well while we were gone, or what? But it's definitely struggling. Might need to pick up some miracle grow and give it a boost.
In box 2- The corn is a lot fuller with leaves. The zucchini are looking nice and leafy and doing well. The strawberry is still pretty small. Much smaller than it's siblings in the other box. I think I might transfer the other broccoli plants (I still haven't transplanted elsewhere) in this box between the strawberry and corn. There's some space right in there.
Here's a close up of one of the strawberry plants. As you can see, it has a ripening berry, but something has already gotten to it. There's also an empty stem on this plant that looks like it had a berry, and it got chewed off by something. That's going to irritate me if the "critters" get to these and we don't get to harvest any of them. We'll see.
Duncan's poppies don't seem to be responding to their care. Those seeds were pretty old, so they might not have been any good. We'll have to go pick up some new seeds so Duncan can have some success in planting a flower bed/garden.
In box 2- The corn is a lot fuller with leaves. The zucchini are looking nice and leafy and doing well. The strawberry is still pretty small. Much smaller than it's siblings in the other box. I think I might transfer the other broccoli plants (I still haven't transplanted elsewhere) in this box between the strawberry and corn. There's some space right in there.
Here's a close up of one of the strawberry plants. As you can see, it has a ripening berry, but something has already gotten to it. There's also an empty stem on this plant that looks like it had a berry, and it got chewed off by something. That's going to irritate me if the "critters" get to these and we don't get to harvest any of them. We'll see.
Duncan's poppies don't seem to be responding to their care. Those seeds were pretty old, so they might not have been any good. We'll have to go pick up some new seeds so Duncan can have some success in planting a flower bed/garden.
There we have it. Some good prospects and some that need help. Hopefully it will all be on the up-and-up next week.
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My family grew strawberries for a little while, but the birds will get to them unless they're protected. We used a chicken wire "cage" that we put over the berry patch. Just make it tall enough so that the birds can't just perch on the wire and reach down to get the berries.
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