Garden update!
YES you know you've been waiting for it. Today since I couldn't get my tattoo gun to work I decided to photograph the garden!
It's finally starting to look like something!
When last we checked in with my tiny patch of dirt, things were starting to think about being plants, but hadn't really made up their minds yet.
Kinda pretty, especially with all those yellow flowers. Those turned out to be bok choi, by the way, which is a relative of mustard, and which did NOT like being planted right before a warm spell. Bok choi: plant in autumn. Now I know.
But now, it's actually looking like a garden!
That's the pak choi, those big slightly blueish elephant-eared plants, with a bolted spinach stalk leaning over them. Hanging down across the front looking kinda like beans is the bok choi, almost ready to give me seeds for next year. The bright green in the top right side is sage, and below and to the left of the pak choi are my lettuces, butter and red leaf.
The red leaf is keepin' on like a trooper through the warmer weather. It isn't bitter at all, and it's producing at a crazy rate. I picked it nearly bare about a week ago, and now look at it! For context, if you were just going to have a big salad for dinner, there's enough red leaf there to give you about six salads.
To the bottom left looking a bit like marijuana is another spinach that's about to go to sed, and behind that is the broccoli.
Nom.
There's lots of nasturtiums under the trellis... they aren't growing UP it yet, but I'm patient. Those marigolds are volunteers from last year's plants, and they're EVERYWHERE. I'm just letting them go because hey, marigolds!
And you know what else self-seeded all the fuck over my yard this year?
Chamomile. Fucking chamomile, that I LABORED to save one single plant of last year, and now? Now it's everywhere. Tea for all!
I lost track of how many corn plants I planted, and I got... what, three? Four? I have more starting in containers in the front, but this may be a lost cause. Corn, why hate?
In that picture you can also see some radishes, and the yellowing leaves of a previous crop of potatoes that I'm about ready to harvest.
SO MANY POTATOES. Seriously, we're going to be eating potatoes for the rest of forever. I have these guys here, tiny reds and blues in the center of the trellis...
...and three buckets with russets. POTATO PARTY.
The calypso beans along the back fence seem to be doing well! I don't expect to get much from them, but we'll see.
On the other hand, my peas were producing like crazy!
Until it rained and they got powdery mildew. It doesn't make the peas inedible, but it'll shorten the lifespan of the plant significantly, which is a major bummer.
^That is the color of bummer.
At least the blackberries are happy! Look at all those flowers! And you know who loves blackberry flowers?
Look at that sweet face.
The thyme is going to conquer the world at this rate. I cant wait to harvest some of it.
And the tomatoes are finally starting to take off. I've got three types of tomatoes and four types of chilis, plus bell peppers.
And over in the flower side:
^That's sunflowers, and the red/purple one is amaranth.
So that's my garden as of today!
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It's finally starting to look like something!
When last we checked in with my tiny patch of dirt, things were starting to think about being plants, but hadn't really made up their minds yet.
Kinda pretty, especially with all those yellow flowers. Those turned out to be bok choi, by the way, which is a relative of mustard, and which did NOT like being planted right before a warm spell. Bok choi: plant in autumn. Now I know.
But now, it's actually looking like a garden!
That's the pak choi, those big slightly blueish elephant-eared plants, with a bolted spinach stalk leaning over them. Hanging down across the front looking kinda like beans is the bok choi, almost ready to give me seeds for next year. The bright green in the top right side is sage, and below and to the left of the pak choi are my lettuces, butter and red leaf.
The red leaf is keepin' on like a trooper through the warmer weather. It isn't bitter at all, and it's producing at a crazy rate. I picked it nearly bare about a week ago, and now look at it! For context, if you were just going to have a big salad for dinner, there's enough red leaf there to give you about six salads.
To the bottom left looking a bit like marijuana is another spinach that's about to go to sed, and behind that is the broccoli.
Nom.
There's lots of nasturtiums under the trellis... they aren't growing UP it yet, but I'm patient. Those marigolds are volunteers from last year's plants, and they're EVERYWHERE. I'm just letting them go because hey, marigolds!
And you know what else self-seeded all the fuck over my yard this year?
Chamomile. Fucking chamomile, that I LABORED to save one single plant of last year, and now? Now it's everywhere. Tea for all!
I lost track of how many corn plants I planted, and I got... what, three? Four? I have more starting in containers in the front, but this may be a lost cause. Corn, why hate?
In that picture you can also see some radishes, and the yellowing leaves of a previous crop of potatoes that I'm about ready to harvest.
SO MANY POTATOES. Seriously, we're going to be eating potatoes for the rest of forever. I have these guys here, tiny reds and blues in the center of the trellis...
...and three buckets with russets. POTATO PARTY.
The calypso beans along the back fence seem to be doing well! I don't expect to get much from them, but we'll see.
On the other hand, my peas were producing like crazy!
Until it rained and they got powdery mildew. It doesn't make the peas inedible, but it'll shorten the lifespan of the plant significantly, which is a major bummer.
^That is the color of bummer.
At least the blackberries are happy! Look at all those flowers! And you know who loves blackberry flowers?
Look at that sweet face.
The thyme is going to conquer the world at this rate. I cant wait to harvest some of it.
And the tomatoes are finally starting to take off. I've got three types of tomatoes and four types of chilis, plus bell peppers.
And over in the flower side:
^That's sunflowers, and the red/purple one is amaranth.
So that's my garden as of today!
Crossposted to Dreamwidth. http://andmydog.dreamwidth.org/16389.html with
comments