Hanging Garden Update

It's been just over 2 weeks since I last posted about my hanging veggie garden experiment. There have been some interesting developments in this period of time. I've come to notice something rather unusual. The zucchini plant that is rooted into the bottom of the bucket has not produced anything,

meanwhile the plant in the top of the bucket has sprouted several small fruits. The opposite is true of the pepper plants, though the top plant has some very tiny peppers on it, each not much bigger than a large pea. If this continues to be the trend, next year I think I will plant peppers in the bottoms of the buckets, and zucchinis on the top so all my plants will be producing. My tomatoes are only planted in the bottom of one bucket, and they are doing pretty darn well! I think they honestly must be the easiest thing to grow. I think that's the only thing I've never had a problem growing, ever.

Here are the zucchinis. The first one is the largest and just seemed to pop up out of nowhere in the last couple days. The very first two that grew for some reason shriveled up and disappeared. I don't know what happened to them. I'm guessing an animal may have come along and snatched them. Luckily, the rest seem to be doing okay so far. I'm hoping that within the next week or two I'll finally get to make some fried zucchini.

Here are the thriving tomatoes! 

 Here's my hand holding one of the larger ones to give you some perspective. Though, my hands are fairly small. Still, these things are growing pretty quickly and should be ready within another week or so.

 And finally, my beautiful peppers. The rest are still very small yet. They seem to be growing the slowest. I hope the ones planted in the top of the bucket start to thrive. One plant is red and one is green, though I can't quite remember which is which, so I guess I'll be surprised.