White Wonder Cucumber Growing!

Finally, my white wonder cucumbers are growing. I've been delayed this year with my cucumbers for a number of reasons. First, I started these plants from seed and I ended up planting them a little later than I normally would. Then the turnip plants I had planted in the spring had blocked the sun to the young seedlings, delaying their growth even more. 

However, now that I have removed the turnip greens and we've experienced some warmer weather, the cucumbers are taking off! 

The plants are starting to grow up my nice trellis that held my Boston pickling cucumbers last year. And this morning I noticed a few baby white wonder cucumbers growing! I'm super excited! How cool is a white cucumber! Hopefully, a lot more our on their way! 

White Wonder Cucumber Sprouting!

Just five days after planting white wonder cucumber seeds, they've already sprouted! I can't wait to try these white cucumbers, they're going to be so unique! 

My trellis that I used for my cucumbers last year is still intact, so now all I need is the plants to grow! 

The seed packet for white wonder cucumber. 

Harvest 9/15/12

Today's Harvest:
1 Heirloom tomato
1 cucumber
3 Juliet tomatoes
4 cherry tomatoes
5 Hot Peppers

Putting the cucumbers and tomatoes to use!

As a side to dinner I took some of my Juliet tomatoes & picklebush cucumbers, sliced them up and covered them in balsamic dressing! A delicious late summer side!

Harvest 9/11/12 still getting Tomatoes!

Today's harvest:
5 Juliet tomatoes
4 cherry tomatoes
2 heirloom tomatoes
1 big boy tomato
1 hot pepper
1 cucumber

Premature Harvest before the storm! 9/8/12

With a tornado watch currently in effect I wanted to harvest some tomatoes from the garden even though they're not completely ripe yet! One tomato, the Marion one, is actually a weird shape and split a little.

Today's harvest:
1 cucumber
1 heirloom tomato
1 Marion tomato
6 Juliet tomatoes
3 cherry tomatoes

Large & colorful late season harvest! 9/7/12

Today's harvest was larger than I expected and very colorful! I got to pick another eggplant and harvested the first garden beans of the season! If you read back to some of my first posts, you'll see that I planted the beans late, add in the hot dry weather and they didn't do as well as other years.

Today's harvest:
1 Japanese eggplant
1 Red Hot Cherry Pepper
1 cucumber
4 Juliet Tomatoes
5 Cherry tomatoes
6 hot peppers
58 garden beans (small)

Harvest 9/4/12

Today's harvest:
1 Marion tomato
4 hot peppers
1 cucumber
1 red hot cherry pepper
3 Juliet tomatoes
4 cherry tomatoes

Small harvest 9/2/12

Harvest are continuing to get smaller but I'm also happy I'm still getting anything! Since the end if July I have been able to harvest something from my garden almost everyday if not every other day! I consider this an accomplishment, especially compared to past years!!

Today's Harvest:
1 cucumber
1 cherry tomato
1 heirloom tomato
3 Juliet tomatoes

Harvest 8/28/12

The harvest are starting to spread out as the summer wanes...but still getting plenty of hot peppers!

Today's harvest:
1 Big Boy Tomato
1 Cherry Tomato
3 cucumbers
9 Hot peppers

Harvest 8/25/12

Today's Harvest:

2 cucumbers
1 Big Boy Tomato
4 Cherry Tomatoes
14 Hot Peppers

August 21, 2012 Harvest!

Today's Harvest:
1 small cucumber
5 Cherry Tomatoes (partially ripe)
4 Juliet Tomatoes (partially ripe)
1 Marion Tomato
14 Hot Peppers

August 19, 2012 Harvest

Today's harvest:

2 Cucumbers
3 Cherry tomatoes
2 Juliet Tomatoes
11 Hot Peppers

Watermelons ready today! Plus today's Harvest! 8/17/12

Finally decided to harvest my two sugar baby watermelons today! I hope they are ripe! They are a small watermelon type so they didn't get that big but are suppose to be delicious! I also got more hot peppers today, which I believe are habaneros.

Here's today's harvest:
2 sugar baby watermelons
6 Juliet tomatoes
1 heirloom tomato
1 pickle cucumber
23 hot peppers (habaneros?)

Harvest August 14, 2012

Another big harvest today!!

2 Big Boy Tomatoes
2 Marion Tomatoes
4 Juliet Tomatoes
2 Cherry Tomatoes
1 cucumber
22 Hot Peppers

Garden images 8/11/12

Just some photos of my garden. Watermelon after rain storm, cucumber plant, and chocolate mint flowering! The mint flowers are actually a very beautiful purple!

Huge Harvest 8/8/12

Today was the largest harvest of my garden ever! I harvested my first eggplants of the season, a huge amount of hot peppers, and a variety of tomatoes!

Today's Harvest:
2 Japanese eggplants
29 hot peppers
1 cucumber
4 cherry tomatoes
7 Juliet tomatoes
1 big boy tomato
1 Marion tomato

More Flowers and wet Watermelons

The cucumber plants I placed in containers on my deck are beginning to flower and they look great!

Also in my container garden are my sugar baby watermelon plants! So far I have two melons and even after a heavy rainfall they still look great!

August 2, 2012 Harvest

Today's harvest:
1 medium sweet pepper (first of the season!)
1 small cucumber
3 hot peppers
1 Juliet tomato
6 cherry tomatoes