Friday, February 4, 2011

Progress Report - How everyone's doing

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:

One of our butternuts

A baby-watermelon

Britney and Pepe, our spearmint- and pepino-melon plants, respectively, have grown so much and are doing really well:

Our spearment is very happy here.

Our Pepino melon flourishing in his pot.

I'll do another post soon regarding some of the dips the garden has taken. Peace

5 comments:

  1. The garden is looking amazing guys! Wish I was there to see it first hand but the pics are great to follow.
    Have you made spearmint tea yet??
    Is it too soon to stick one of those mini vodka bottles in that watermelon?haha

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  2. If your cucumbers are prickly, not English, those are the variety we grew up with in South Africa. Remember? We used to peel them? Then they invented the English ones and we can eat them whole ;~) How good to see another South African blog in the queue at Blotanical!

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  3. @Cory Thanks man..yeah when you guys are down again you must come check.. will be even greener by then! the spearmint tea rocks, yeah.. Most good, haha. Might be on to something with the mini-watermelon-vodkas.. pocket size. haha
    Peace man, speak soon

    @Elephant's Eye Haha yeah we have to peel ours too.. Nowadays you don't find them in stores around here anymore..just the English ones.. Thanks for stopping by! Will be sure to check out your blog. Peace

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  5. Your veggies are coming along nicely! The baby watermelon looks so sweet! We lost a lot of our plants when the temp went down to 15F here--a record low! Today it was 80, but the temps are all over the place lately, so it could turn chilly again.

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