Since our last update, the garden has seemingly gone through some ups and downs - but everybody seems to be doing well for the most part (I'll mention the
downs in my next update). Since our first harvest of Bok Choy and Spinach, we've enjoyed quite a few delicious salads courtesy of these plants. Our cucumber plants lost some leaves close to where the stem enters the soil, but the plant seems to be doing well regardless.. Despite the few leaves that seemingly shrivelled up and died, which has stopped happening, we have enjoyed quite alot of delicious cucumbers from them! We only realised once we started getting our first cucumbers that these aren't the
English Cucumber, that we get in the stores here, but of the pickling cucumber variety. These are shorter with a prickly skin but taste just as good, although we've had one bitter one.
For our first attempt, the cucumbers have definitely been the most rewarding harvest-wise.
On the melon side of things, here's two photo's showing how our butternuts and our watermelons are doing:
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| One of our butternuts |
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| A baby-watermelon |
Britney and Pepe, our spearmint- and pepino-melon plants, respectively, have grown so much and are doing really well:
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| Our spearment is very happy here. |
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| Our Pepino melon flourishing in his pot. |
I'll do another post soon regarding some of the dips the garden has taken. Peace
