Organic Garden; Watching it grow

Well, the garden is in for the most part. I have some grass clipping around the plants and most are growing pretty well. I have to admit that starting my squash in recycled plant containers proved to work so great I will hopefully remember to do that again next year! It puts my winter & summer squash, and my cucumbers at least two weeks ahead of where they would be. I just looked at my zucchini yesterday and they are ready to flower! (Sorry I get excited about that sort of thing)

I am starting to cut off bottom limbs of tomato plants that are about a foot or so high and steak them. I will continue to cut off lower limbs until I have at least a one foot gap. That being said, I sometimes cut off half a lower limb if it is close to touching the ground. I work hard at the start to ward off early blight so that I can relax a little when the plants are setting fruit.

You can see that my squash that were on the opposite end of the garden last year are now at the south side. (left side of pic) The tomatoes from that north end are also at the south end. I rotate in thirds to try to keep the plants from diseases as is recommended but the problem is there is only so much space so you do what you can.

As always, happy planting!!