Well the garden was planted just about 3 weeks ago and so much is happening. All my seeds are doing well. The onions are taking their time coming up but I know they will be fine. The radishes look great and I think it may be a few more weeks until I can harvest them. The beets are growing well and I plan to thin them out within the next week or so. I have grown them without thinning and while it produces a lot of greens - the beets are mostly small. So this year I am thinning with the hopes of getting some good sized beets. The sugar snap peas are doing well and will need to have some support as they grow. I am in the process of deciding what I will use - maybe some strong open fencing - we will see. I just planted my bush beans and have 3 little plants showing. The tomatoes are fairing well after a bumpy start and some are flowering. We have been having magnificent winds over the past few days and that has been wrecking havoc on the leaves as it tends to dry them out. I am manually spraying the garden on my off days so that the leaves don't dry out. My zucchini is taking it's sweet time to show... The peppers actually look better than previous years and all 3 have baby peppers showing. As you can see in the first photo my Mammoth Sunflowers are taking off - they seem to grow about an 1" a day. My strawberries are producing fruit and I hope I can get to them before the birds. Finally my apricot tree is showing more than 5 apricots - verses all 4 from last year!! - and I am anxious to savor their sweetness. Overall things look well. My goal for the next week is to keep the garden weeded, bring in some worms for the soil and proably start to cage the tomatoes.
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