Last night after watering vegetables in the greenhouse I snapped a few photos to share.
Lemon, our Meyer Lemon Tree we planted in January is doing AWESOME! Take a look at all those baby lemons! I’m taking Erin’s advise and letting Mother Nature decide how many lemons we should grow rather than picking half of the tiny lemons off.
The basil we planted in the gutters is doing great! I’ll have to transplant some of it to a larger container soon.
The cucumbers we started in gutters are also coming along. Pretty soon I’ll need to string the vines up to the ceiling of the glass greenhouse.
Cherry tomatoes. Check.
Beefsteak tomatoes? Hmm.. Looks like Mr. Slug has claimed this one.
But no worries, there are plenty more.
Take a look at our two green zebra tomato plants we have growing.
Wahooooooooo! Life is good.
How are YOUR tomatoes doing this year? Have you harvested any yet? Are you having any pest control problems?
Mavis wants to know. 🙂
Carri says
I am having issues with beetles on my cucumbers. The marigold extract and orange oil is not working. Do you know of another organic I can use to get rid of them? I’ve been killing as many as I can find each day by just squishing them but every day there are more! I’m ready to use the pesticide powder if I can’t find something quick because they have already killed half of the blooms.
Sher says
I unknowingly over-nitrogen-fertilized my tomatoes. Got a lot of upward growth, the leaves appearing curly and — weird. Most plants have recovered with sufficient watering to dilute the nitrogen, except 2. They have not developed a single flower. The one plant that already has tomatoes on it, the tomatoes are not getting any bigger than about 2″ across. Any experience recovering from over-nitrogenized tomatoes? The cherry toms seem to be doing fine; have had several ripen already. Ripe tomatoes in July in Wisconsin is practically unheard of. 🙂
Newest development: a fungus called “dead man’s fingers” has appeared — ugh!. It feeds on decaying wood. The bed is a raised 3-tier (previous owner had flowers in it).
Mary Ann says
Darned slugs! They got a few of mine, too, but I have more trouble with those awful green worms than slugs.
My first planting of tomatoes went in the ground in February (So Cal) and the Beefsteaks are all done and pulled. I still have a countertop full of them right now, though. The cherry tomatoes from the same planting time are still producing, but getting near the end. The first planting of cucumbers have all been pulled, too.
My second planting of Beefsteaks have some small green ones so far and the second planting of cukes have been producing for a couple weeks now.
The third planting of tomatoes (cherry and Big Boy this time) and cukes were started over a month ago and were just transferred to the garden within the last two weeks. I’ve never planted this late, so we’ll see how they do.
Angel says
Actually we are having problems with our tomatoes. They were doing awesome and then we got a week of torrential downpours. Our pond overflowed and we had mini rivers in our garden. I was so thankful we planted everything in raised hills….except the tomatoes. They are ground level. I don’t know if they got too much water or what the problem is. I figured they just needed some sunlight, but they are still withering and some look like they aren’t going to make it. Very frustrating after all our hard work planting 70 tomato plants. 🙁
Cecily says
I have been picking cherry tomatoes since July 4 here in Tacoma and I have a larger yellow variety beginning to turn color. The only issue I’m having is that with all that rain we had at the end of June followed immediately by a heat wave my leaves are curling from the stress. It’s not too big of a deal since fruit production isn’t affected, I just have some crazy, mutant looking plants.
Kristy says
Just picked 3 little Glaciers and a handful of sungolds. Hope the sun stays!
Celie says
Way over on the East Coast, my tomatoes are doing pretty well, I guess. They are producing tomatoes, but not like years past. We’ve also had trouble with too much water, I think. (Yellow leaves and all). We’ve planted Better Boy, Cherokee Purple (my favorite), sweet million, black cherry, mortage lifter, amish paste, rutger and Mr. Stripey.
On a good note, though, we haven’t had any blossom rot!
Keep up the good work on the blog. Love to read how everyone’s doing.
Gayle says
I’ve harvested cherry tomatoes already – about 30 of them. The other tomatoes are coming along, with lots of green ones on the plants. The cucumbers in the greenhouse are producing fruit, but they’re growing toooo fast and coming out hollow. I think I’ll have to transplant them to the garden or move them outside in their pots so the intense heat doesn’t make them outgrow themselves! Getting lots of serrano chiles and strawberries, too. It’s all pretty exciting!
Katherine says
In the east, and we too, have had too much rain. I’ve lost some tomatoes to blight. I planted a mix of heirlooms.
Kelli says
I. Love. Your. Greenhouse!! Seriously, girl, I am scheming right now to figure our how my husband can make me one for our side yard. Keep up the great work!
Tangela says
Woah at your lemon fruits!!! How big is your tree? I just got one this spring too, but only a 1 gallon. I was tickled pink to have 3 lemons growing (had more, but it self thinned, however not near what yours is showing)!
Mavis Butterfield says
About 6 feet tall and it came in a one {or two} gallon pot. 🙂