My garden is simply radishing!

Whats new you ask? Everything is getting so huge! My eggplant is starting to flower, as well as my peppers. My gourmet orange bell pepper is starting to sprout something (see pictures below). The squash plants are growing like nobody's business. My peas were tiny last week, but they grew at least 2 inches in just a week's time. The beans are beginning to differentiate, so I can see clearly where my Provider beans stop and my Maxibel ones begin. There haven't been any deaths yet, though my lettuce doesn't seem to be particularly thriving.

This week we planted the last of the transplants. In went the cabbage, cauliflower, beets, and radishes. The weather wasn't very good. I ended up visiting my garden later in the week, where I weeded (as usual), fertilized, and sprayed neem and Thuricide. No lecture this week because we had a test.

Libby asked us to explain where we get our food from. Like most college students, I am a frequent Publix shopper.  I recognize that my food doesn't actually come from Publix, but that Publix is merely a forum for shoppers to buy produce that other growers are producing. Finding out where my food comes from was very difficult, which I think testifies to the fear that some people have when they don't know where it comes from. Such a fear is really a healthy fear, because what we put into our bodies matters, so we should be more aware of it. I remember doing a walk-through Publix once and seeing a few "locally grown" signs in the produce section, but not as many as I would like. I assume that most of the produce comes from Florida or nearby growers (not too far away hopefully to preserve the produce).

Enjoy the pictures!