27 June

Been a busy week, neglected to update blog. Here are photos from 27 June:


Flower container: recall I sowed bachelor's button, agastache cana, sweet peas and daisies.  For some reason, the daisies haven't shown up yet.  Did I forget to sow them?

Mom potted my cosmos.  We'll see what happens!

Marigold, calendula, chamomile and lettuce

Basils and an attempt to pot a large sprig of spearmint.  Looks like it's doing well.

 

Seeded broccoli a while back just in case I needed more seedlings; and also to transplant for winter broccoli. One died.  I'll have to resow.  They're so cute!

 

Basils, chamomile, calendula, oregano and an aster on the far right.  Hard to believe, but only ONE aster seed germinated, and it survived.  Can you believe it used to look like this (left), upside-down and everything?

 

Right: More salad.  Spinach in the back.  Left:  more salad!  Mom took the last planter, so I don't have a deeper container to move these into, sadly.  Oh well!  I guess if I want to make a pretentious "micro greens" salad, I have these.

 

Spearmint doing well!  Plotting world domination, no doubt...

Parsley in the 3x6 bed.  Put marigolds in to (hopefully) scare away any bugs.  Hopefully it works.

Right:  Oregano!  So few of them made it, and I'm so proud this guy is over an inch tall.
Left:  Tarragon.  These herbs are living next to the parsley in the 3x6 bed.

 

Entire 3x6 bed:

Broccoli leaf:

Spinach leaf:  kind of pointy!

Chamomile beginning to flower!

Zucchinis!
Left: left flower is male, right flower is female.  You can see the baby zucchini forming.

  

Left to right:  nasturtium, butternut, (marigold hidden), pumpkin, (more marigolds).

Pumpkin vine tangling around twine.

Basil!  They're getting big!  Time to use some soon, I think...

 

From planter.  Left:  sweet peas training down twine.  Right: bachelor's button (I think) flower bud.

 

I pruned some (about half) of the tomato plants according to the "single stem" method.  I don't have many tomato cages, so I left some downward-pointing stems support some un-caged tomatoes.  But thinning out the tops helps lessen the weight.

 

Tomato blossoms!

Compostables (after pruning tomatoes and chamomile--jeez those things are huge!)

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23 June

Been a busy week, neglected to update blog.  Here are photos from 23 June:


Using old CDs, I made some ornaments to (hopefully) scare birds away.  Materials: CDs, red and black permanent markers, twine, metal wire (to make hooks, not shown).  Hung some in apple tree, some in garden bed.  Some circles were a bit off, so I made some different ones.

 

Video of ornaments:

Zucchinis on their way!

   

Nasturtium:

Butternut, Pumpkin:

 

Pumpkin vines: hopefully they take to the twine and follow it out of the bed.

Tomatoes: average height is 2'

Chamomile: I didn't realise chamomile grows this tall (about 18")!  Oops.

Basil doing very well:

Tomato (or cherry tomato) flowers!

A friend was looking to get rid of some spearmint.  I buried some stalks, and they're doing quite well!  They can fight the irises for garden supremacy ;)

Spinach leaves are becoming strangely shaped.  Maybe this is normal?  They're pointy at the end and pointy at the bottoms.  Am I a nerd if this reminds me of the Klingon emblem?  Been harvesting "baby spinach" for salads.

   

Typical salad harvest: enough for a two-person meal-sized salad.  I usually throw in some nasturtium and parsley leaves, too.  If I had nasturtium flowers, I'd throw them in, too.  And when basil leaves are big enough, I might make a herb salad!

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