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My garden is coming along slowly this year. The first Black Sea Man tomatoes, from an indoor-started plant, are filling out nicely. The 30ish other, outdoor-started, tomato plants are much further behind it. My overwintered pepper plants, bell pepper and Hungarian wax pepper, are doing fairly well, but not much new growth is occurring. The overwintered Trinidad Moruga Scorpion pepper plant and Ghost pepper plant have been taken out of their container and planted in the ground. Hopefully they will recover. One of my largest sun scorched pineapple plants is recovering. It sending out a new shoot. The 3 smaller ones are recovering as well, albeit slowly. The Brussels sprouts are sprouting and filling out. Their battle with cabbage moth caterpillars seems to be completely over now! Though, the water-sugar-yeast slug traps I made don't seem to have caught many slugs at all.
Some sort of odd flower that is not a local species popped up in the garden at random (center pic, 2nd row). Anyone know what that is? It is probably a commercially propagated flower. Who knows how long the seed has been dormant in my flower bed. I certainly didn't plant it.
My pepper and chard bed is doing well after I've weeded it of all the wild greens I was growing in it. There's only so much Redshank, older Lamb's Quarter, and American Burnweed I can eat or juice. The latter of which I don't think it is worth processing for harvest due to all the work involved (bitter leaves, need to peel older stalks, boil in 3 changes of water, etc), before it is palatable. The elephant garlic is starting to bloom. I hope to get tons of seed for replanting this fall. My seed-started asparagus is doing well and starting to branch out more. The sunchokes threaten to lean over and flatten them, so I'll tie those back soon.
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