Friday evening my mom and I worked outside. She mowed the grass; while I planted some seeds and weeded the garden. I also planted broccoli, spinach, red romaine, and iceberg lettuce in small containers to grow in until they get become seedlings. Hopefully the heat wont destroy them. The pie pumpkin (or orange squash ?) is quickly taking over the 6x10 space. For the moment it is leaving the peas alone. The alaska peas are almost tall enough to start climbing the trellis; while the little marvel peas are still pretty short. The sugar snap's haven't come up yet. I'm guessing that I'll have to plant more of them in a week or so, hopefully it is a bit cooler. The okra is producing very well, if I had more okra plants I'd be able to make something with them. There are a few spinach seedlings that are popping up from when I planted a few weeks ago. Only a few in a small clump made it above ground, maybe a few more will come up soon. Everything else is growing well. I think everything that is going to die of "heat stroke" has died (hopefully). I'll post a visual update soon.

Thanks,

Amanda

Here is my garden as of August 16

This is my garden as of Aug 16th 2010.

I planted my first seed in January of 2010 during my intro to horticulture class at Texas A&M University Commerce. Since then I have been expanding the garden in my back yard ever since. In May my best friends Chris and Renea helped me dig a 4x8 foot plot next to our patio. In that space as well as a few containers I planted basil, dill , grape tomatos, spinach, sqash, beets, and onions. Of those plants the squash and onions died and the beets still arn't ready; while the spinach grape tomatos, basil and dill turned out nicely. For fall I have expanded the garden by adding a 6 foot in diameter circle and about a 6x 8 foot rectangle. I now have planted orange and yellow squash, two types of zucchni, pumpkin, red leaf romain, spinach, three types of peas, blue lake (green) beans, tomatos, jalopenos and okra. This week two of my orange squashes have died from the blazing texas heat (100+ for 16 days in a row.) Hopefully the weather cools before I loose more. Luckly I have more seeds to plant if more fail. Thats the January- August in a small nut shell.