On the right, you might remember the Chinese Red Noodle bean. It's a really long "green bean" type bean and they're actually red (ish). In that pot are also the Eggplant just mentioned. You can click on any picture to enlarge if you so choose.
To the left are 3 cucumber plants and 3 Charantais Cantaloupe plants. The Cantaloupe leaves were damaged when the temperature got below 45 degrees a couple nights ago. Most of what I planted can't tolerate temps that cold for long. Broccoli is the exception. Still, it's recovering and nothing else was damaged.
To the right in the pic are two crooked-neck summer squash and two New England Sugar Pie Squash which is really a small pumpkin. Yes, pumpkin is a squash, a winter squash!
The Broccoli is coming along nicely. The pots I planted them in are really old fruit tree pots I had lying about. I attempted to use them as SWCs, but they aren't really stiff enough. The plant on the far left collapsed. All said, they are awesome specimens.
One of the Broccoli plants is beginning to head. For those that don't know, these plants were bred to produce a large flowering head. We consume them normally before the buds turn into little flowers. Look closely in the middle.
First tomato set. Beautimous. For a refresher, I planted both an Arkansas tomato called the Traveler and an heirloom called Chocolate Stripes. Can't tell yet which this one is as I lost track of which was which.
This pic represents the growth of the tomatoes so far. Each one has had all the suckers removed to promote upward growth and limit bushiness. Except for 3 that have a green bush bean, each SWC also has a pepper in the container with the tomato. See previous posts for variety. The peppers are also budding and I expect flowers soon.
The pic to the left shows the space blankets I referred to at the beginning of the post. Hope you enjoyed this visit.
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