Gardening

July Gardening

We got a lot of salad this month! As well as some beautiful lettuce flowers.

Anne Trueblood

Anne Trueblood

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July Gardening

We got a lot of salad this month! As well as some beautiful lettuce flowers.

Our first cuke
A baby cuke!
A harvest of lettuce!
Baby cuke getting bigger
Lettuce is getting tall
And what's this? Lettuce buds?
Look, a crucial red guest in the garden!
The buds are getting far out there now
The second lettuce is also tall, but far more red as well
Gorgeous red Prizehead lettuce
The very first lettuce bloom. They seem to only bloom in the morning for a couple hours
Harvesting a first cuke
Both cukes side by side
Goodbye cukes, you will be tasty
This cuke was wilting, and I notice that its root was all white and presumably that's moldy or rotted
Look at how wilted its leaves are
And the root is so white!

So we had to pull out that cucumber, because it was dying slowly.

The lettuce blooms in full force, a bunch at once
Started some new sets of lettuce, several plants to one container
So many blooms on this one tall lettuce, I'm waiting for them to go to seed
I think that white tuft in the middle will be a seed-producing bud eventually?

I'm hoping that we can get some seeds off of these super-tall lettuces, so that we can grow even more in the next season! Doing a full life cycle is part of the learning process for me.

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