Things are progressing fairly well since my last post. It rained for about a week straight, which made me fear for my plants--I've been warned heavily about over-watering. Some seem like they're doing great. Others not so much.
My "Whopper" tomato plant, the only one in a container, flowered and it's producing fruit:
I think we've been anticipating that this would be the first and best of the tomatoes. It's got the best starting medium (Miracle-Gro potting soil) and the most depth to grow. It's gotten tall, as you can see. The question is when I'll need to fertilize further. Miracle-Gro says it'll be good for six months. Should I add fertilizer before that, since it's fruiting and using so many resources from its soil?
This is two of my cucumbers growing into a kind of tangle. They're blooming in spite of their small size. I'm thinking my shallow bed is limiting them, as feared. Is there anything I should do? Per my last post, I did add the 10-10-10 Scott's fertilizer about two weeks ago. The instructions say to wait two months. Is there some sort of fertilizing I should do in the interim?
Here's two of the four tomato plants in the bed (the first is my Celebrity variety, the second ones of two Romas). They seem fairly healthy, but remain small. Several are flowering. I did prune branches that were dragging on the ground, as I've been told those could be vectors for fungal infections. Only the second plant above still has many branches close to the ground. Do those need to go, too? The leaves seem healthy.
As advised, I pruned the flowers on both my basil plants. The sweet basil, shown above, has some leaves that are yellowing. Do those need to go, too?
My dill is looking fine overall, but it's had yellowed leaves toward the bottom and one side since I transplanted it. Do those need to be trimmed?
Finally, my loose leaf lettuce sprouted weeks ago and is stuck at this size. Given what I've seen from everything else I've planted from seed elsewhere, they're way behind. I did not fertilize for fear that it'd be too much. Is there anything I can do for them?
That's all the major developments. I'll post my nascent flowers another time--they're growing at an insane pace.
As always, thanks for any guidance y'all feel like providing!
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The format is  to add an image
You can also click the bottom portrait icon on the ui for this but it'll upload to the lemmy instance you are on, which might have restriction on size.
Thumbnail should take the first image linked in this format if I remember
Finally got it. Thanks!
This allows the pics to be hosted remotely, and not on Lemmy, right?