Garden Status and More Lettuce

The garden continues to grow, and we have green tomatoes, small peppers, and baby cucumbers.  I gave some additional training to the tomato and cucumber plants using Velcro ties.  This gave the peppers and vegetables in the middle of the garden some more room.  Here is the garden today (7/17/2011).

Here are the vegetables in the middle.  We have been harvesting lettuce and basil every day for salads and appetizers.

In an effort to keep the lettuce yield going all season, I germinated lettuce seeds indoors and transplanted a few of them to the garden today, adding a little blood meal around them for nitrogen.  The hot weather isn't supposed to support lettuce, but the plants are doing well so far, so I'll keep giving them a chance to give us salads.  I put the seedlings between the existing plants in one of the squares and will completely cut away (eat) the existing plants in this square as the seedlings mature.  We will keep the lettuce density at three lettuce plants per square foot.  I'll transplant seedlings to the other lettuce squares as we cut (eat) those.

I applied some more Safer BT, Captain Jack, and Safer Tomato/Vegetable Insect Killer today.  I don't see plant damage; this is just a preventative measure.