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Lemons

 

And here is another one on a side branch......

 

Here's the one in the last post, a few days older.......and still growing......

Tomatoes Cukes Peas

Yes, it's finally that time, and I am really enjoying some of the fruits of my labor.........Cukes, peas, tomatoes and beets are all producing right now.  the leaf lettuce has gotten bitter and over grown, so I'll compost it.....but there's a new crop that's trying to survive the heat, here in Texas.  My okra, is on the verge of blooming and starting to make.  I'm so ready for a good mess of okra.  How about you?
Picked some peas this week, but didn't get many, since I didn't plant very many.  I'll save these and keep watering, cause I see new blooms, on the plants which means more peas.  I had to put some 7 dust on them for the aphids, that have started.  Darn pests always ruin a good garden.  It's almost grass hopper time as well and the I'll ready have a fight on my hands.

Cow Peas, etc.

 

On the other side of the fence, you see my cow peas.  On this side you see my beets, a squash plant and some marigolds.

 

Along with the peas, you can see my tomato plants, in cages.

Tomatoes

 

Looking good, will have tomatoes in a few weeks.

Cukes Starting to Produce

 

Just a couple more days and these babies will be on my plate! :)

Fresh Veggies

 

I'm sure you can recognize most of these plants.  Some I have been enjoying already.

 

Got to support the tomatoes, cow peas and cukes.........onions mixed in around them.

 

Tomato vine and cukes running up the wire.

 

Blooming tomatoes, and on the left underneath the tomato leaf, Kolrabi is growing......first time to try this one..... :)

Parsley & Cliantro

These are sprouted from seed.

3 Weeks Ago

 The bigger plant is one left over from last year, collards and on the right is my beet plants.

 

Top left are my potato plants and the light green is leaf lettuce.  Also, at the top of this picture on the right are radishes.

And here are two bunches of onion slips, that I purchased from the store and set out.

Tomato Plants

Two of the tomato plants that I grew from seeds.  I transplanted them from the cup I started them in, and they are doing great.  All of my raised bed garden seems to be doing well.

Lettuce

 

My leaf lettuce is coming on, good and the one darker plant with them, is probably marigolds, that I scattered the same day I planted the lettuce.  I hope the marigolds make good plants this year, so the bugs will go somewhere else.