Finally ripped out the massive cucumber plant. It was starting to produce some bitter fruit, so we decided it was probaby time. Just as well too because almost over the course of a week it seems the whole plant just got covered in these tiny little bugs. No idea what they are but they only were on the cucumber plant.
I also pulled out everything else except for 1 of the squash plants, and the bell peppers. We are hoping to get one more squash grown so that we can let it go to produce seeds for next year, since the variety we planted was an heirloom. If not, oh well.
We learned a lot from this round of plants. Stay on top of pruning a tomato plant, onions don't do well for the time we planted them, plan ahead better, and 1 cucumber plant is definitely enough!
So I did a lot more research and a lot more planning, and we have some seeds that are going to be coming in this week to start our next round of plants!
We are going to be doing a lettuce mix, kale, broccoli, corn, carrots, and 2 pea varieties. I'm going to build a new bed for the corn specifically. It will be a low bed since the corn grows so tall. All the seed varieties coming in are specifically chosen to do well in our zone, and to do well for the time of year we are planting.
We are very excited about the broccoli. I've heard broccoli is quite difficult to grow, so it might be a challenge, but we love broccoli in this household, so it will be cool if we are successful.
While pulling plants, I did find that one of my beds is just absolutely loaded with worms! I was quite happy to see that. It seems only 1 of them was though, so i'll probably transplant some worms into the other beds. But not to shabby for not adding any worms at all. they all found their way into this bed naturally, and must have bred like crazy. Couldn't turn over a handful of soil almost without finding one big fat worm.
-Brandon