Progress: Vegetable Garden

2009-03-14. This strawberry plant survived the winter. It snowed a lot.

2009-04-12. I added three plants today. One of them already flowered when purchased.

2009-04-15. This last year's plant started opening new leaves.

2009-04-30

2009-05-02

2009-05-24. Strawberries ripened.

2009-06-06

2009-07-09

2009-07-17

2009-08-25

2009-09-24. Strawberries started extending runners. They will become new plants next year. I definitely have high expectation!

2009-12-01. Fall is over. Fallen maple leaves covered strawberries.

2009-06-05. Our blueberry did not die in winter. It did not grow at all last year so I do not have much hope this year.

2009-09-07. As I expected. It did not grow in size nor have flower. I probably did not give proper care. Soil composition might not be right. More fertilizer might be needed. Or sunlight might not be adequate.

Sell by 2009/09 China. I got new seed from Japan.

2009-06-11

2009-08-05. Goya needs lots of sun so I placed them in sunny area in the garden.

2009-08-17. This is female flower.

2009-08-21

2009-08-21. This is male flower.

2009-08-22. Close up of male flower.

2009-08-26. Another female flower.

2009-09-03. Goya harvested.

2009-09-12

2009-09-19

2009-09-27. Goya getting large.

2009-10-03. Close up of goya surface.

2009-10-14. Growing season is rapidly going away. It's getting cold and less sunlight is available.

2009-10-23. Fall came and goya season is over. They are this year's last harvest. They grew small as if no energy left for the plants to grow proper fruits.

Sell by 2009/09 Thailand

2009-05-02. Seedlings.

2009-07-03. Seedling just did not grow properly. It rained a lot and it was cold in early summer. While it's still tiny it flowered.

2009-07-03. Female flower.

2009-08-02

2009-08-08. Harvest.

2009-04-26. Seedlings popped up naturally from last year's plants. Shiso started managing itself in our garden.

2009-06-28

2009-09-19. Close up of new leaves.

2009-10-03. Flowered.

2009-12-01. After flowering, it produced seeds then died.

2009-06-28. I seeded left over eggplant seeds from last year.

2009-09-01. Soft and fragile looking purple flower bloomed.

2009-09-07. After the flower. no fruit grew however. Sigh...

2009-07-29. Two Jalapeno pepper plants stayed inside the house in pots during winter. Since it's warm now, I transferred them back to garden.

2009-07-29. The plants were transferred.

2009-09-07. Flowers and a chili.

2009-10-05. More chilies. They are not so spicy by the way.

2009-10-25. Fall is over, I transferred them back to pot so that they can stay in the house again during winter. Let's see if they can take it the second time.

Tomato Pole Brandywine, Packed for 2009 Lot#1 Sell by 12/09

2009-07-23. 2009 early summer got lots of rain and less sun shine. It caused tomato farms around Massachusetts lots of damage. I am seeing it in my garden, too. They are too small for mid summer.

2009-09-07. Leaves became yellow and started dying. It's a disaster.

2009-09-12. A small tomato formed.

2009-10-14. All tomato plants died before they produced proper size tomatoes.

Squash Summer Straightneck, Packed for 2009 Lot#1 Sell by 12/09

2009-05-04. This year I tried summer squash for the first time.

2009-06-11.

2009-06-15. Flower bud formed.

2009-06-19. The color of flower bud changed to yellow as it got ready to open.

2009-06-20. It flowered.

2009-06-20. It's a female flower with miniature summer squash attached.

2009-06-22. The flower closed after a day and half.

2009-06-28. First, it seemed summer squash was growing.

2009-07-09. But it rotted from the tip where flower is attached. After researching on the net, I learned summer squash needs to be pollinated; otherwise, it will rot. If bugs that pollinate are scarce, manual pollination was recommended. Challenge is that the flower closes in 1-2 days and male flowers need to be available for pollination.

2009-07-10. So I tired to pollinate summer squash by rubbing male flower to female flower. After this I tried to pollinate every female flower.

2009-08-02. Summer squash grew large.

Bush, Blue Lake 274, 2009 Lot 01 USA 12/09

2009-07-30. Harvested green beans are short and curvy as if they did not grow healthy.

Melting Sugar (Snow Pea), 2009 Lot J1 USA 12/09

2009-05-04. Seedling. Snow pea usually grow quickly in early season.

2009-06-11. With string tied to poles rather randomly, I created place snow pea can grab to grow. If it can not find anything to grab, it dies.

2009-06-15. Flower.

2009-06-19

2009-07-29. Snow peas.

2009-06-28. My friend who is from China gave me seeds of this Chinese beans. I actually do not know the name of this bean. My friend said that it's commonly eaten in China so I called Chinese bean.

2009-07-17. Flower buds.

2009-07-17. Flowered.

2009-07-29

2009-07-29. Bean is long and has pattern of purple lines on its surface.

2009-08-04. Harvest.

2009-05-06. I planted garlic. I first tried to put garlic in kitchen but they rotted in the soil so I got garlic for gardening purpose.

2009-06-13. Garlic put long green leaves but they went away in summer as if they died.