Flowers and Trellises

      I saw flowers in bloom for the first time in my garden!  The peas and Tomatoes got trellises.

Today I sprayed Neem and BT early on and then weeded.  I put more stakes in the ground so that I could weave string around them for trellises for the peas and tomatoes.  Libby and Matt first did a demonstration on how to do the trellises, which was super helpful.  I went around the wooden stake three times with the string before threading it across.  Eventually I'll probably have to put another level of string higher up, as the plants grow. 

Our plants got sprayed last week, so we won't be able to eat anything from them until November.  Because some of the vegetables will be overripe by November, I ended up harvesting some vegetables that were about ready to harvest (one eggplant, zucchini, and squash and lots of green beans).  By doing this I am freeing up the plant to focus its energy on the new vegetables that I will be able to eat.

Here's a diagram of a basic plant structure
(http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.phschool.com/science/biology_plac)

We learned that each of the vegetables we harvest is not necessary the "fruit" of the plant.
The following are the plants in my garden and what part of the plant we are actually eating/using:

Tomato: fruit
Pepper: fruit
Cabbage: bud
Eggplant: fruit
Squash flower: flower
Carrot:  root
Beet: root
Basil: leaf
Beans: fruit
Peas: fruit
Cucumber: fruit
Squash: fruit
Zucchini: fruit
Okra: fruit
Marigold and Zinnia Flowers: flower
Sunflower seed: seed