It’s been a couple weeks since my last update and I got a request for more pictures, so here you go.

It’s been a very productive couple of weeks.  Nearly everything is in bloom.  I have more lettuce than I know what to do with, even after distributing some to the neighbors.  My corn (I’m told) is farther along than the farmers’.  ”Knee-high by the 4th of July…”, but mine is mid-thigh.  Okay, no more rhyming, I mean it… (anybody?)

I finally got a good number of nice-size radishes.  I noticed a couple weeks ago that a lot of them had red root up above ground level and were pretty much just growing long and skinny.  So I piled more dirt on them and that seemed to do the trick.  They’re all plumping up now.  Live and learn.

I’m really impressed with the tomatoes.  They’re a little bit behind my parents’ (that they bought from a greenhouse), but not a lot.

Here’s the two half-rows of beans:

Full row of carrots with radishes on the left and onions on the right:

Full row of corn:

I really love my wall of peas.  This is two half-rows with the string trellis down the middle:

On the mounds from left to right — squash, zucchini, pumpkin:

Finally, the full row of potatoes:

That’s not everything, I guess I left out the beets, lettuce, cucumbers, and watermelon.  I’ll get those next time.

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Well, we did it.  The kids and I spent 5 or 6 hours in the garden this weekend, cleaning up the weeds that grew like a jungle while we were in Florida for two weeks.  We thinned everything, set up the tomato cages and the pea trellis.  Still a little work to do this week, but we worked really hard.  Grow, baby, grow!

I harvested a ton of lettuce on Saturday and a couple of the radishes.

I also did another pesticide application on Saturday.  The bugs had done a pretty good number on the beans and squashes.  Everything else seemed okay.  One interesting observation I made on Saturday was that the weeds were full of holes in the leaves, while my plants, for the most part, were untouched.  I think the reason was that before we left for Florida, I had cleaned up all the weeds and applied the pesticide.  So any new weeds that came up while we were gone didn’t have the pesticide, and were fair game for the bugs.  That makes me really glad I applied it before I left.

Here, compare this picture to the one from Friday:

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We just got back from two weeks in Florida.  Apparently, Wisconsin got some rain while we were gone.  I guess my dad made it over to water a couple times, too.  There was definitely a jungle waiting for me when I got back.  This is going to take me all weekend to clean up!

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Everyone’s trying to build a better facebook, and I’m still looking, and hoping.

Chi.mp turned out to be a bit of a bust, at least as far as I’m concerned.  They seem to have lost their direction, or maybe I just misunderstood it from the beginning.

Quojax is another one that looks promising.  I like their philosophy and vision.  I signed up, but haven’t had any time to dig into it yet.  I’ll post more about it here as I have time to investigate.  If you sign up, look me up.  I’m eheimerman.

I’ve been using Twitter quite a bit lately.  I like the simplicity of it, but wish I had more friends to follow.  I basically just follow news and political personalities.  Still, it helps me keep up on what’s happening in the world.  If you want to follow me, I’m eheimerman.

I’m still using Google Wave, but I don’t have anyone to use it with, so it’s kind of useless to me right now, though I really like the application and can’t wait until it’s more ubiquitous.

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