Garden Planted

This pallet in the yard where the stump once smoldered and a pine once stood is no longer the center of the action.

Left here are the remaining spices (two kinds of dill, parsley, and cilantro), four peppers already transplanted and four tomatoes already transplanted.

Everything has been transplanted and moved to the back pasture where it will be arranged and left to mature.

Me and the kids did most of this on Monday and Tuesday:

Now on Saturday, after a heavy downpour on Friday afternoon, the plants continue to flourish.  Here, the winter squash puts out its third mature leaf with many more behind it.

The squash have grown the largest leaves the fastest.  These are some of the last transplanted eggplants and peppers, both of which have grown slower all along.

The tomatilla, the the second column from the right, have also put on quite a bit of size quite rapidly.  Two of them seem to have been knocked over by the rains, but are already righting themselves again.

I am impressed with the robust development in all of the tomatoes.  For the time being, I think this combination of sunlight and shade is perfect for them.  You can see a bit of stoutness taking shape at the base as the plant prepares to send its shoots.

This tomato and this tomatilla were planted at the same time.  Their cotyledon are indistinguishable, but they quickly diverge in morphology with the first leaf.  One will produce a yellow tomato, the other will produce a green tomatilla (I hope).

These are nascent zucchini flowers.  

Under the eaves of the carport-ch, the lettuce can't decide if it would rather be cool or needs more sun; I'm afraid more sun will kill it, but it isn't growing with the same vigor as the others...

According to my calculations, if all goes well, I might see some leaf and a young squash or two in about a month...  It's a good thing I don't need this food to survive.

Until next week.

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