CHANGES in the garden

by Robin

Seedlings are popping up everywhere. Here they are, in no particular order. Ignore the wire cages. Those were to prevent chickens from eating seeds and still prevent puppies from running over them while they're seedlings.

Below - okra, adorned with recent raindrops.

Below is pole beans opening up 3 days after seeding. They are much bigger today but I certainly couldn't get a focused picture to show you.

Below is spinach.

This is a year-old Sweet Bell pepper plant. You can't tell, but it has 3 peppers on it. My spring ones are just throwing blooms now.

Hot peppers below. I eventually had to tie them to cages because wooden dowls were falling over.
Self-explanatory

Below, is new life on a wooden basil stem. I have sweet basil babies but it amazes me when new life shows up where you least expect it.

Below are 4 sweet bell pepper seedlings. These came from seeds that I gathered from my spring plants. We've come full-cycle here.
Bunching onions. Oh, by the way, hay is in every picture for a couple purposes. Mulching. Get it & the poop out of the coop for the chicken's sake. Fertilizing the soil. Diversion to keep chickens off of the seeds. Unfortunately, the latter didn't work because they wanted to scratch it around and the puppies couldn't wait to run around with some in their mouths. Oh well. At least the chickens will no longer affect the garden.

Cucumber seedlings below. I had to self-pollinate in the spring but at least it was worth the effort until the heat killed them. Can't wait to see how it goes through the winter.
Below is Garden 3. Hot peppers are just out of the picture at the top. You can see my climbing trellises for the cucumbers and beans. I'm so excited about fast-growing produce vs last year's brussels, cauliflower and squash which produced little to nothing for me.

That's it for now. Stay with us through the winter to see our Florida garden grow.