Garden Updates

I thought it would be nice to update you on a few of my garden vegetables and fruits.

Here are my grapes. Compare them to just a few weeks ago when I posted the little bud-clusters on my blog. It's amazing to see the growth in such little time.

Note for next year.....When I prune the leggy growth vines that did not produce fruit, don't put the good vine branches too close together. As you can see, there are a couple of clusters that are too close together an are being choked by the surrounding vines.

Also, another note to self.....stay on top of the leggy growth during the growing season as I now have vines growing in my persimmon tree.

http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/hil/hil-8202.html

 

The reason you want to keep the leggy growth pruned is that the energy/effort it takes to produce the useless vine sections is taking away from the productive vine sections.

Here is the status of my lettuce garden. I have had a few salads out of my garden, but now the plants are growing tall rather than fuller. This is called "bolting". I really don't know why they do this. I will be doing some research to find out for next year. I guess we will have salads every night for the next week to get rid of them before they go bitter. My head lettuce is so scrawny that the Romaine is hiding it. Head lettuce doesn't like the heat at all !!!

http://gardening.about.com/od/vegetablepatch/qt/SummerLettuce.htm

 

http://www.vegetablegardener.com/item/5044/why-lettuce-bolts-and-what-you-can-do-about-it