My First Garden Ever

Another 4 varieties of bush beans. I planted the seeds in that order today, hopefully will be ready right at the beginning or mid July when the summer start to get intense. The tests I've made before from another bush bean varieties are here.

I'm a total failure when it comes to bulbs(beets, carrots, radish). They never grow the way they suppose to do.

There are lettuces ready to harvest from 45 days to 70 days and here in the city the last 2 days we reached 96 degrees Fahrenheit when the normal temperatures should stay at 80 F at this part of the year. That's why you take your chances and sow in the middle of February a lettuce ready in 70 days, that way you have it ready a little before the heat goes wild. If a frost arrives after the middle of February you just simply cover it from the weather, but overall this 2011 we never saw spring frost after the middle of February. It was breakfast time and I haven't been eaten vegetables lately, so when I saw my little romaine lettuce ready to harvest, guess what happened?, yes I ate it! with balsamic vinegar and parmesan cheese, good way to start my day.

Only 16 inches tall. They named it "Junior" at Burpees seeds I suppose because is a small of a kind taking in concideration that other varieties grow from 4 ft to 6tf and some like the mammoth sunflower may even go 9-12 ft. This dwarf sunflower already got lots of flower buds, but none has not been opened yet. 4 days latter the first bud opened.

In Texas we had been in a very critical drought, some people say is like something never seemed before, but my brother tells me otherwise. The only fact is that there are wild fires in some counties, luckily none close to home. It basically means no rainfall. The last month was well below rainfall average and since I sowed my green bean (60 days ago) seeds only twice rained and it was only one of those times that we had 10 minutes of torrential rain and then nothing more, it was like a message saying: "I know there's not rain here in a long time" and in a desperate measure, there is your water! and then vanished. So much of a story for the final results, what's that?... The harvest!. You know I realized there's no much of a harvest for green beans when it comes to growing them in squared foot boxes, it's a waste of space, but anyway, the point here is taste and how prolific they are. "Royal burgundy". Nice big purple bean pods, crispy, but for my...

Few days ago I noticed a yellow almost fluorescent substance in a little part of mulch in my garden box, it was fresh and bubbly like fresh glue. At the beginning I tough it was an insect substance like an early stage of larvae, so I went for my sevin insecticide  and sprayed some, but the very next day I went to see it and it was already dried out, solid, like a termite nest material. Finally after research I know it was slime mold.

Around 3 weeks ago we added St Augustine sod(Palmetto and Raleigh) to the front and back patio and seems to be holding up well. Here is the reference brochure to take care of the lawn the whole season.