The Garden Update
Jun. 22nd, 2010 08:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bluesgardenTomorrow is forecast to be quite hot, so I'll be hiding inside and catching up on laundry. Today was warm as well, but I did get out and take some pictures. I'm putting the tomato bits in a different post since this one is long enough. *wince*
The greenhouse in mid-summer.
My new scales for weighing the harvest! Whenever that finally ends up happening. D picked them up for $3 at a flea market. It came with legs and nothing to hang it by, so D took the legs and made them into the loop on top and a few s-hooks.
The onions from last fall are finally sprouting. No use in planting them for seeds as they're hybrids and wouldn't breed true, but hanging in there from last fall to now despite less-than-ideal storage conditions is pretty good.
I moved the Kentucky Colonel mint up front with the orange variety. Easier for them to plot mutual world domination that way.
The container lettuce is holding up despite the heat.
The beets are... doing something. They're starting to look beet shaped?
The potatoes are starting to flower!
I had to thin out a couple of carrots that were growing too close to the others - aren't they cute at this stage?
Bug patrol in the tomato patch. (Robin on post in the center of photo, in case you're having trouble seeing it - this was as close as I could get with a point and shoot!) The birds have been quite entertaining this year. Lots of robins, barn swallows, bluebirds, and so on, as well as the red wing blackbirds, several of which have nests in the tall grass near the garden. The blackbirds are fiercely protective of their nests and woe betide the hawk that's shopping for a meal in the soybean field next door!
PEAS OMG PEAS *is amazed*
The Mongolian Giant sunflower plants aren't giants yet, but they've put on sizable leaves to grow into.
Mint, corn, mint, corn...
A surprise last week - two lettuce plants appeared where I had planted them at the beginning of May. They went through all the rain and floods and hail. My newly planted lettuce (on the other side of the garden) had a few very tiny sprouts make an appearance today.
The beans are flowering! Well, the survivor is anyway, and the younger plants aren't far behind.
The melons are putting on flowers and having far too much fun tangling themselves up six ways from Sunday. I don't know if this is a bad thing yet or not.
The cucumbers have decided they might actually grow this year after all.
A wee little Fairytale pumpkin!
The D project I mentioned yesterday - his aunt gave us some seeds and D decided he wanted to plant the Giant pumpkins to see what they would do. And some more melons, just because. Despite the fact that it's the middle of June. So they were started today and are in the greenhouse just until the possibility of storms the next few days passes by.
Crop circles by D and the reason there are a dozen total pots in that previous picture. He made two 'hills' although the other is a bit smaller.
Another D project - last year's sunflower seeds were scattered about. This one is growing on the dirt hill at the back of the property. That plant is rooted well over my head and its parents grew to a good 12 feet last year.
The greenhouse in mid-summer.
My new scales for weighing the harvest! Whenever that finally ends up happening. D picked them up for $3 at a flea market. It came with legs and nothing to hang it by, so D took the legs and made them into the loop on top and a few s-hooks.
The onions from last fall are finally sprouting. No use in planting them for seeds as they're hybrids and wouldn't breed true, but hanging in there from last fall to now despite less-than-ideal storage conditions is pretty good.
I moved the Kentucky Colonel mint up front with the orange variety. Easier for them to plot mutual world domination that way.
The container lettuce is holding up despite the heat.
The beets are... doing something. They're starting to look beet shaped?
The potatoes are starting to flower!
I had to thin out a couple of carrots that were growing too close to the others - aren't they cute at this stage?
Bug patrol in the tomato patch. (Robin on post in the center of photo, in case you're having trouble seeing it - this was as close as I could get with a point and shoot!) The birds have been quite entertaining this year. Lots of robins, barn swallows, bluebirds, and so on, as well as the red wing blackbirds, several of which have nests in the tall grass near the garden. The blackbirds are fiercely protective of their nests and woe betide the hawk that's shopping for a meal in the soybean field next door!
PEAS OMG PEAS *is amazed*
The Mongolian Giant sunflower plants aren't giants yet, but they've put on sizable leaves to grow into.
Mint, corn, mint, corn...
A surprise last week - two lettuce plants appeared where I had planted them at the beginning of May. They went through all the rain and floods and hail. My newly planted lettuce (on the other side of the garden) had a few very tiny sprouts make an appearance today.
The beans are flowering! Well, the survivor is anyway, and the younger plants aren't far behind.
The melons are putting on flowers and having far too much fun tangling themselves up six ways from Sunday. I don't know if this is a bad thing yet or not.
The cucumbers have decided they might actually grow this year after all.
A wee little Fairytale pumpkin!
The D project I mentioned yesterday - his aunt gave us some seeds and D decided he wanted to plant the Giant pumpkins to see what they would do. And some more melons, just because. Despite the fact that it's the middle of June. So they were started today and are in the greenhouse just until the possibility of storms the next few days passes by.
Crop circles by D and the reason there are a dozen total pots in that previous picture. He made two 'hills' although the other is a bit smaller.
Another D project - last year's sunflower seeds were scattered about. This one is growing on the dirt hill at the back of the property. That plant is rooted well over my head and its parents grew to a good 12 feet last year.
