Sweet potato growth update

I have high hopes for the sweet potatoes. If my sweet corn squirrel research yields no easy solution, and if the crop of sweet potatoes looks good, this bed may be entirely covered with sweet potatoes next year.

roma tomato growth update

In previous photos I showed a few roma's, here are the only two currently growing.



I am rethinking where I will plant the tomatoes for next year. Probably put the garlic against the hedge and put the tomatoes further from the hedge.

Sweet corn update

So, as a buddy of mine warned, the squirrels would most likely get to the corn before I would. I came home on Friday and found a squirrel at it. The first two photos show the damage done.





I managed to pull three surviving corn just so I could investigate their growth. They were obviously premature, here they are pre and post peeled.









I ended up throwing these into the back yard to let the squirrels have them. I'm going to investigate what can be done to protect the corn from squirrel invasion, and if my research yields many different failed attempts, I may not attempt to grow corn again.

Beefsteak Tomatoes growth update

As with the Roma bed, the Beefsteak bed is overgrown and not producing well because of the mature trees that surround my yard. Hopefully my plan for next year will increase the yield. If it doesn't I may give up on tomatoes.



Here's a closeup of the one and only beefsteak tomato growing so far:

roma tomato growth update

The tomatoes are not doing well at all. There are large mature trees that keep growing every year which now put too much shade on this side of these beds. Next year I'm going to switch it up a bit. It doesn't help, of course, that I've let them become overgrown with weeds and the flowers that grow from behind.



Here's a closeup of the two romas, there is a third behind them that is the same size and shape.



Here's a closeup of the other one that has actually started to change colour a little bit.

Sweet bed growth update

The sweet bed is progressing nicely. Not all of the sweet potatoes took after planting, and not all of the corn took either, but such is the life of a garden.

This side of the bed is the sweet potatoes:



Here is the corn on the other side:




Here's a closeup of the tallest corn showing the inside that will develop into corn someday soon.

Garlic harvested

I harvested seven of the eleven garlic plants and decided to leave the remaining ones in for another week or two as it isn't evident to me that this was exactly the right time for harvesting. Here is the bed showing the remaining four.



Here are the seven that I've harvested, they are hanging in the basement now for drying, about three weeks.