Gardening with Fish

Here’s another update this time it’s about our garden.  We have some good news and some bad.  If you remember the post about the hail storm that came through and destroyed a bunch of stuff.  It really did a number on our garden; it killed our pumpkin plant (which makes that the third pumpkin plant we lost, and now we don’t have any.  I guess I will have to buy pumpkins to get my pumpkin seeds, and hope for the best next year).  Our tomato plants really took a beating, the storm broke a bunch of stems and branches, and this week we took some clippers to the broken branches.  I also propped up the plants so that they would grow vertically instead of laying on the ground like they were.  While propping up the tomatoes we noticed that the plants were really leggy, and they were not producing anything.  So I decided on a regiment of nutrients via a spray on fish emulsion.  I’m hopeful that the infusion of nitrogen will help the plants produce more; this is the second week that I have sprayed the fish emulsion on the garden and already I’m seeing a lot more flowers and actual fruits making their first appearance since we started the garden.

 

Here are some pictures of our garden:

Here is our bell pepper plant with three whole peppers growing.

Here is another pepper plant, I’m not sure what it is but the purple flowers are nice.

I believe this is a Serrano pepper plant, and if you look closely you can see four peppers!

We let our lettuce plants go to seed, and it produced some nice yellow flowers.  We will have plenty of seeds so if anybody wants some we will be glad to send them to you just let us know.

Here is one of our sunflowers.

This is one of the taller ones that should have a larger flower.

Here's some seeds that are ready to harvest.

Here are our cucumber plants (after they were trimmed back quite a bit to make them healthier).  I put up the fencing so that they would have something to grow up on to.

Here is our first cucumber that has made it past an inch long, this one is about three inches.

This is our eggplant producing its first eggplant; it has more flowers that have dropped.  So we are hopeful that these flowers will produce more eggplants.

These are going to be the first tomatoes that we will be able to eat (hopefully).  This is also the only plant that has even attempted to produce tomatoes.