Most Fruits and Vegetables Flowering and Beginning To Produce

I have been harvesting my lettuce for some time and now that they are pretty much done I have been working on getting other fruits and vegetables ready for harvesting.  The only vegetable that I have been picking is my zucchini.  The plants are growing quite well which includes both my transplants and the ones that were directly sown in the soil. 

The latter plants are producing zucchini, but I have yet to pick any from them.  I am sure I will be harvesting them very soon.  So far I have only been picking zucchini from my transplanted plants.  I actually picked a four pound one this morning.

Here are some of the zucchini that has been growing on my other plants that are not quite ready for harvesting.

My tomato plants are doing quite well this season and they are continuing to produce fruit and plenty of flowers so that I will have fruit throughout the season.  They are not at the ripening stage yet, but I am hopeful that they will be ripening very soon in the near future.

I also have a cucumber and watermelon that have started to grow.  I have a pollinated cucumber, but my watermelon I am not so sure at this time.  I will know if the watermelon was pollinated in the near future.  The good news is that the vine that it came from will continue to produce these fruits until it gets one that is successfully pollinated.  Check out both of them below.

Using Fluorescent Lights for More Indoor Planting

Now that my spinach plants no longer need fluorescent lights to continue growing I can now use this light for different seeds.  I do the same thing every and once my spinach are just about ready to stay outside all night I can use these lights for the bulk of my garden.

Although the bulk of the garden is in the form of tomato plants I like to think that the ones I planted today are the second part of my garden.  These will make up the second half of the garden not including corn, beans, and carrots. 

The one thing I want to mention before I discuss the various seeds I planted this evening is the one new plant I added this season.  I normally grow the same thing each year, but I always like to add something new to the garden.  This year I am going with planting another melon.  Honeydew is going to be the one fruit I will be focusing on this season.  I though it would be a good addition because you can make a great fruit salad using watermelon, cantaloupe, and honeydew.

Honeydew seeds on the left and cantaloupe seeds on the right.

I didn't think I needed to add too many seeds for my honeydew, but I thought my cantaloupe might need an extra one.  This is just in case some of them may not sprout.  Hopefully they will all sprout because there is always room to remove some of them.  This is only in case more than one of them grow in each pot.

Peppers, cucumbers, and eggplant are other seeds that I planted today.  They are quite simple and since they are a little bit older than my melon seeds I needed to plant several seeds in each pot.  Four for cucumbers, five for eggplants, and six for peppers.  I have found that older peppers do not sprout well and that is the big reason for adding many into one single container.

Just Started Harvesting First Strawberries

I have been watching my strawberries very closely because many of them are red but are just not quite ready to be harvested.  I did find a few that were ready to be picked and that is what I did earlier in the week.  This has been about the average time that I would normally pick these berries.  In terms of timing they have began ripening as they have for the past several years.

A good size and were very tasty after I took a couple to see if they were sweet enough and juicy enough to be harvested.

I am also getting blueberries, but they are no where close to being harvested.  They take a much longer time to ripen as compared to strawberries.  July is usually when I start picking them on average.  Sometimes at the end of June I may pick the first of the season.

Since we are discussing fruit I thought it would be wise to notice a tomato is starting to grow on one of my plants.  It is probably a Roma as it has an oval shape which is the only shape that Romas will take.  It probably isn't a cherry or a steakhouse tomato so I am going with Roma.  In a couple days when it gets bigger I should be able to determine what exactly it is.  Stay tuned to find out what type of tomato is growing in my garden.