Little Radishes

Some critter has been digging holes in my containers and planting some seeds of its own. Mystery plants are growing out of these holes. Could they be sunflowers? It looks like there are sunflower seeds in the holes.

Some of my cucumbers aren't looking so good. The leaves and cucumbers themselves are pale and void of color. I don't know what that would taste like, but it's big enough to be picked. The pale leaves are the ones that are in full sun most of the time. The plants that are along the fence look healthier, but they're in the shade more often. Could there be a connection?

A lot of my tomatoes are ripening now. While I've been away, some of the branches have bent over the cage due to the weight of the growing tomatoes. This has had the effect of causing many of them to ripen before they got very big. The little ones taste like cherry tomatoes.

My zucchini plant continues to blossom, then the blossoms fall off, and still no zucchini.

I came home yesterday afternoon to discover that my upright tomato plant was leaning to the East. The tomato cage just isn't quite deep enough into the self watering container to be stable with all that weight on top. I remedied the situation by standing it upright, then fastening it in position with string tied between the cage and the egg crate that the container is sitting on. For now, it's at least a temporary fix, but I hope it will be last longer.I also harvested my first tomato off the upright plant. It will finish ripening on my kitchen counter.

It's been a while since I last posted anything here, but I decided to let some growth take place. My green pepper plant has two nice looking peppers on it, and several smaller ones on the way. The plant itself is a little over two feet tall, growing out of the utility bucket I converted into a self watering container. Seems to be working pretty well.

The largest of my tomatoes is ripening, and there are many more that will be following it. I think I may have to end up giving some of them away.

My cucumbers that were spreading and attacking other plants became too much of a nuisance to leave in their old location. I moved the container away from the others, and did some other rearranging on the patio. I tacked some chicken wire to the fence, and spread some of the wandering vines across it. A little less than two weeks later, I have this nice looking cucumber that needs saved from the wire.

As another method of restraining the nomadic cucumber vines, I put an upside down tomato cage on top of the soil in the cucumber container. I wound the vines that were growing away from the fence and chicken wire up into the cage, and for now they seem to be staying put. I also have a few more cucumbers growing up there.

In one of my window boxes(that's down on the ground) there are some radishes that will probably be ready to eat soon. I need to plant some more. . .