I should be rejoicing in the four beautiful khuri squash I had ripening in the community garden plot (seen here in a picture from the 4th – my sister and niece were here for ten days, so heavy duty garden pictures were not on the agenda). However, someone apparently couldn’t resist the bright orangeness […]
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I’m nearly three weeks behind on garden goings on, which means all my actual pictures of the garden are out of date, and I’ll need to try and get some with the good camera this week. The kale and cornflowers are going like gangbusters, and I’ve been managing to get small amounts of chamomile flowers
What a different a heat wave makes – my peas are finally blooming (and half of those are already pods now – it’s been freaking hot). I will totally plant these again. The flowers are so pretty, and they’ve topped out at about waist height. Here’s hoping they taste good too! The chamomile
Had my first two harvests over last weekend – more salad turnips than you can shake a stick at, and the first load of kale. I have about a half dozen turnips left in the ground that were a bit smaller. They should be ready in a week or so. Turns out
Both gardens are planted up – I had a marathon afternoon after work yesterday. Both the community garden bed and side garden are now pretty much crammed with stuff. I do still have a few lavender plants to put out, and I think I’m going to try and get the tomato cages out at least,
Well, the iris are budding now, so that’s a better sign for this weekend. I may manage to actually plant out the main parts of both gardens, though based on the forecast, that might need to be on Friday. I did go over to the community garden plot and put out shallots and the remaining
For reasons that will be discussed later, I did my plant shopping at the Farmer’s Market this weekend. So, I have two Baron poblano peppers, three tomatoes (Sun Gold, Purple Russian and Early Girl), oregano and regular basil in the hoop house now. Parsley and thyme are in the garden. Since it’s been
Most of the plants are out in the back yard, hardening off. It’s probably going to be a while to finish that process – it’s been surprisingly cool. We’ll get one random day in the 70s, and then it’s only in the 50s for the next three or four days. I can’t
This morning, I did a ton of work on the side garden. The daffodils have already gone by (courtesy of one day in the 80s last week), so I trimmed those back, along with some other detritus from the Fall. I also took out most of the large containers and topped them off with compost,
It doesn’t look like much, but I did my first planting in the community garden plot on Monday – peas and turnips. There’s a little weirdness going on – someone seems to have decided to spring clean my bed. We have our kick off meeting on Sunday, so I’m hoping to have that cleared
