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Jun. 21st, 2010 08:38 pmThere are little elves with pick-axes in my brain again. It's nice to know that I'm keeping them in steady employment. Here, have some pictures! Not of elves, let alone with pick-axes, but of gardening related things. I don't feel like this is really the catching-up post I need to do, but this is some of it. I'll endeavour to take a wider variety of pictures the next go round. :)
( Pictures of Food and Other Flora )
On the other hand, the weeds are growing just fine. Yes, this is a weed, technically, although I'll be interested to see it bloom. Anyone know what it is? They're quite a few of them spread throughout the garden.
Other items of note: The pumpkins, melons, and watermelons are all starting to flower. Just about to begin flowering are the beans and potatoes. The tomatoes keep trying but I keep explaining to them that they're much too small to be going about that business and plucking the blooms right back off. Except for the Sweet Million tomato plant in the container, which is all grown-up and loaded with 'em, and the squirrelly models that weathered the rain in the compost pile, which I figure can do whatever they jolly well please as I've given up trying to tell them to do anything in particular.
The pumpkins actually have a few weeee tiny ones starting to grow, which I just noticed last night. Then there's D's pumpkin/melon growing project that he just decided he wanted to do (and whether they'll have time to ripen is anyones guess) but more on that another day. The real miracle of the week: I HAVE PEAS. They're also wee tiny but they exist! It's really kind of shocking. These are the ones I planted before the flooding, remember - well after they should have been planted and they've since been drowned and survived through hot and steamy summer temps. Total win. \o/
Finally, the newly planted: a half a row of carrots (4 varieties), a third of a row of lettuce (2 varieties), and an additional row of sweet corn. That makes 3 rows of sweet corn so far, and a fourth row to be planted in a week or two. The carrot and lettuce in containers continue to grow, the lettuce doing especially well since I moved it to the picnic table and away from where the rodents apparently considered it quite tasty. I still need to plant the rosemary and three extra pepper plants.
Happy Solstice, everyone!!
( Pictures of Food and Other Flora )
On the other hand, the weeds are growing just fine. Yes, this is a weed, technically, although I'll be interested to see it bloom. Anyone know what it is? They're quite a few of them spread throughout the garden.
Other items of note: The pumpkins, melons, and watermelons are all starting to flower. Just about to begin flowering are the beans and potatoes. The tomatoes keep trying but I keep explaining to them that they're much too small to be going about that business and plucking the blooms right back off. Except for the Sweet Million tomato plant in the container, which is all grown-up and loaded with 'em, and the squirrelly models that weathered the rain in the compost pile, which I figure can do whatever they jolly well please as I've given up trying to tell them to do anything in particular.
The pumpkins actually have a few weeee tiny ones starting to grow, which I just noticed last night. Then there's D's pumpkin/melon growing project that he just decided he wanted to do (and whether they'll have time to ripen is anyones guess) but more on that another day. The real miracle of the week: I HAVE PEAS. They're also wee tiny but they exist! It's really kind of shocking. These are the ones I planted before the flooding, remember - well after they should have been planted and they've since been drowned and survived through hot and steamy summer temps. Total win. \o/
Finally, the newly planted: a half a row of carrots (4 varieties), a third of a row of lettuce (2 varieties), and an additional row of sweet corn. That makes 3 rows of sweet corn so far, and a fourth row to be planted in a week or two. The carrot and lettuce in containers continue to grow, the lettuce doing especially well since I moved it to the picnic table and away from where the rodents apparently considered it quite tasty. I still need to plant the rosemary and three extra pepper plants.
Happy Solstice, everyone!!
