Seed starting has begun! I’ve got 16 different types of seeds in today. This year’s new and improved kit includes a second bright white LED light of the kind I bought last year, and heat mats! (Christmas gift from the BF.) Plus new shelves long enough to hold them. I still have my old […]
My 2019 seeds are in. One of the big things I decided for this year is that I’m skipping tomatoes entirely. They’re just so variable, and actually fairly easy to get at the farmer’s market. So that’ll leave me room to play around with. I have two peppers to try –
The kale is looking amazing. It’s all I have left now in the community garden. Because we’re finally getting the leaves to come down, I was able to go over there today and dump two leaf bags’ worth on the bed for winter mulch. I’m done now for the season, other than pulling the
We have a frost warning for tonight, so I want ahead and pulled out anything that remotely resembled tender, including the above. My mother had a few extra sweet potato slips this Spring. I only had room for them in a pot, so I’m fairly impressed I even got this many. I’d definitely
My bigger eggplant is finally setting fruit, and it’s been warm enough I’ll hopefully be able to harvest them. The kale’s looking amazing. I pulled out a good chunk of the tomato plants today- they’re just looking ratty. I also pulled out the khuri squash. There had been one fruit set
Due to the squash carnage, I went out looking for greens yesterday. I planted some pretty looking red Swiss chard, and some seed arugula and lettuce. I also prepped the part of the bed that had peas in it for garlic, though that won’t go in until October. I may add some more
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I’m nearly three weeks behind on garden goings on, which means all my actual pictures of the garden are out of date, and I’ll need to try and get some with the good camera this week.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
