Silver Queen that is. You saw the pictures of the corn on the ground, smashed down by the rain. It is now standing straight and proud. The sunflowers are taller than I am. The tomatoes are chest high and loaded with blooms, but no little tomatoes. One of the peppers does have a little pepper. We picked a couple of yellow crookneck squash this weekend.
The peppers were not side-dressed with compost until the first blooms appeared. Too much fertilizer in the beginning stages will cause the peppers to make a big plant and almost no peppers. Side dressing needs to get heavy when the blossoms appear.
We have been getting quite a bit of rain lately, so the garden is being mulched a little each day to conserve this moisture and hopefully to suppress the weeds. We don’t really worry much about the weeds that grow in the pathways, but they do make the garden look raggedy. They also take some moisture; but with the raised bed structure, they are not a real problem. The weeds in the bed are pulled daily.
David Segrest is an International REALTOR in Charlotte, NC. His email is david@segrestrealty.com , His webpage is http://www.segrestrealty.com , and his international real estate blog is http://dointernationalrealestate.blogspot.com/
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