The red radishes are coming up very quickly. NONE of the lettuce came up, so I essentially wasted 4 dollars of lettuce seeds trying to sow it outside in the middle of summer. I'm guessing that a much better approach would have been to start it inside.
I pulled up all of the Asian stir fry mix. We have barely touched it since the collards, kale, and the spinach greens have been in full effect. It was acting as a great mulch for the pepper plants, but the bugs were starting to pick it apart and it was all bolting. My plan is to plant the winter rye and hairy vetch as a mulch around the peppers now so that they will be in place when it is time to pull the peppers out.
Random shot of some cucumbers:
I have some peas planted right in this little area, and a volunteer squash, which I am almost positive is a butternut squash based no the leaves and the flower. I must have dropped a seed at one point.
Here we have the mystery plant in the back corner. It is definitely not a squash plant. I have narrowed it down to cantaloupe or watermelon.
This picture is a really good visual of what happens to some of my pepper plants (the one in the back). This happened last year to one of the 4 that I planted, and this year to about 3 of 15 plants. The leaves and the fruit start to turn yellowish. You can tell how yellow when you compare it to the healthy pepper plant in the foreground. I read online that his could be related to over watering, so I put a 72 hour delay on the timer in the hope that it helps.
A random shot of the asparagus tops and the rose bush in it's third big bloom of the summer.
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