The Ambitious Gardener: HARVEST, REPLANT AND CLEAN UP

CARROTS, RED ONIONS, GREEN IONS

Busy day in the garden today! I had a lot of clean up, harvesting, and replanting to do. I harvested the rest of the carrots, some were small - baby carrots, still delicious! I took out the rest of the red onions and can't wait to use them. They are very mild tasting, almost like a shallot. I'm not sure when to harvest the green onions as some seem ready and some are still barely developed. I will have to research that.

pulled out all Zucchini

The Zucchini was not producing any longer and looked really bad. I suspected the squash vine borer which was confirmed when I pulled them out and saw the damage - a big hole with gross droppings! It always saddens me when a plant doesn't make it and I have to remove from the garden. So I dug out a good bit of the soil where the Zucchini was and replaced with a fresh mixture.

green beans are gone also

Sun Sugar Tomatoes

I replanted one Zucchini plant along with a few different varieties of hot peppers and cilantro and added some cucumbers along the trellis also.

cucumber vine has more room now

Ichaben Eggplant - see the white MOTH!!

I decided to leave the two squash plants that have fruit. I removed the cages to give them room to sprawl.

Squash is hanging in there

Cantaloupe - big as my hand

The green beans were also a disappointment this year. I think 9 plants to a square is too many and they were crowded. I only got one good harvest out of them, so they are gone and now the cucumbers have more room to spread out.

Here's a photo of the Sun Sugar tomatoes. First time growing these, very prolific so far, and taste really good. I love the color of them too!

The rest of my tomatoes are not doing as well as I had hoped. Between the horn worms, aphids and other issues not identified, they are looking sad and unhealthy, but I am still able to harvest tomatoes, I don't see signs of reproducing yet. I started a treatment of BT on all the plants and will watch for signs of recovery and dead worms.

I took this picture of the Ichaben eggplant but didn't notice the WHITE MOTH until I uploaded the picture. They lay eggs that hatch into caterpillars that will eat everything!

I have two squash plants left, they both have fruit and no signs of the vine borer at least that I can see.

To the left is a cantaloupe with my hand showing it's size. They are slower growing than the watermelon but are looking good!