Some major harvesting going on

Today, my day off, I was met at the garden by Poppy Mel, and while showing him around, picked a nice assortment of fresh veggies: With the 3 cucumbers picked this morning it brings the total up to 60. The zucchini total now stands at 11. And, 4 red ripe tomatoes so far.

The two tomatoes are more Brandy Boy's and lots of smaller cukes as well as lots of orange sungold, a pepper, and another Tiger Stripe Zucchini, and a small Butterstick. Also, some purple podded pole beans. And... there are eggplants setting fruit all over the place, but still too small to pick.

Today I watered everything in with the Neptune's Harvest Fish Emulsion and Seaweed. It takes nearly 2 hours to get everything watered in and fertilized! I ran out of the initial gallon of the Neptune's towards the end and had to use the Maxicrop Seaweed in its place.

After getting everything watered in, I built the bamboo trellis roof for the cucumbers (and next season the peas) to climb across. The 4 foot length bamboo that I bought from Sunset Bamboo turned out to be the perfect choice for the job:
Sunset Bamboo™, provides only commercial grade bamboo poles that are grown using the highest grade available. These poles have been dried and treated to withstand insect and fungal attacks. These poles, as all our bamboo have been inspected by the U.S.D.A and have passed all of the requirements for entry into the U.S.A. Our bamboo offers beauty, strength and stability with all the eco-friendly benefits. I purchased 25 4 foot poles but only needed 20 to do the job.

I now have an extra sturdy roof trellis for the large slicing cukes to climb across!



There will be a continuation of this major harvest on Sunday. Looking forward to a bumper crop of eggplants in just a few more weeks! 

And here are just a few shots of how the garden is shaping up on this 20th day of April. I would have to say that April is a major harvest month!

Here is the South end of the Garden:

Here are the Orange Sungold Tomatoes: (1 plant)



Here is a photo of the middle bed showing the Red Currant Tomato (1 plant) and how it has grown to epic proportions:

And here is a photo of the row of zucchini plants: 3 total, with the Tiger Stripe in the foreground:

And here is the Purple Podded Pole Bean-8 plants in all (2 on each side). It is by far the most vigorous growing of our 3 pole bean varieties:

And 1 last shot of today's colorful harvest: