5.28.2010

Square Foot Garden - Progress Report

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Things and humming along in my veggie garden.

I've got two, count them - TWO - New Mexico Big Jim chile peppers!  It's amazing how big these chiles get on such a small plant.  In fact, the NM Big Jim is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the producer of the largest Chile pods ever grown.  Foot-long chiles are not uncommon.  I'm not sure I even know what to do with so much chile pepper.
My cantaloupe is blooming and growing strong!
These monsters (below) are zucchini plants.  They are blooming and poised to take over the garden. Until growing them I had no idea how prickly the plants are.
Everything else is coming along, too.  I'm looking forward to eating more than strawberries from my garden.  Shouldn't be long now!

1 reactions:

Jenny said...

I haven't been keeping up with your gardening posts very well... I still don't get how all of that fits! Especially when some of them are such fast growing plants that take up so much room!

5/28/10 4:12 PM

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