I took pictures of our container garden last night so that you could all see the growth we've had!
Here's our super squash plant!!! Apparently these things do very well in half-barrel planters!
This squash has been minimally productive...I think it took the bees awhile to find our plants. We have a lot of flowering, but pollination has been an issue:
Here's my only producing zucchini plant - so far, so good!
Here's a side-by-side of our strawberry and jalapeno pepper plants. We're still collecting strawberries almost daily from that plant, and our jalapeno pepper plant is really doing well in a container of that size!
We transplanted all but 3 green bell pepper plants out of this planter, and these 3 have been producing peppers for several weeks now. I tend to pick them before they grow to grocery store size because I don't want them over-ripening.
Here are our 3 bean plants. They've given us beans for a few nights, but I'm not thrilled with their growth. Next year, I will try them in a container that has more depth than a window box.
We've had a few grape tomatoes ripen thus far, and plenty of blooms that indicate more are on the way. We have harvested no bigger tomatoes though, and I would likely not use this planter for this purpose again next year...I'll just plant my bigger tomatoes in something else and cage them like always...
This is what we refer to as the "down garden." In the back left corner, I am experimenting with a cucumber plant to see if it bears fruit better in the ground vs. in a container. In the front right, we moved the scraggly zucchini plant down and it has flourished in a new home! We may even get meaningful production off of this plant soon!
I hope that you enjoy the container garden update!!!! :) I will try to write more later this week about other goings-on in our lives!
All my love,
