Garden, Late July, At Dusk
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leahbobetWent out just now to do the watering and some general maintenance (staking, weeding, petting my cucumber leaves so they know I love them) and figured I'd take some pictures.
(N.B.: this post is really image-heavy.)
The radishes and some carrots. I don't know if those carrots ever took, to be honest -- they were started in the seed starter, and for some reason, I think because of the light, the stuff that started inside didn't do as well overall as the stuff that started outside from the seed. But the radishes are tiny and lovely and just about ready to dig. Radish salad sometime next week!
The original windowbox. The beans there are pretty much in a steady-state; even though that middle one's looking a bit yellow it's just the light. I put a few radishes in there when I thinned out the radish pot, to give them some room, and they're between the beans and the pea plant.
Here's the pea plant in that windowbox, complete with rubber band to hold it on its $&#*ing stake and a pea growing right in the blurry centre of the picture (sorry, my hand twitched). And the radish in the windowbox, peeking above the soil line. Hi, little radish.
The mint and marjoram, both flowering.
New pot, just planted last week, with pea and spinach shoots peeking out. The long wispy ones are the spinach.
Another new one -- this one a fakeout whole bed with drainage holes and a layer of what would have been recycling in the bottom -- that I set up last week when I was thwarted in the matter of another windowbox. This is planted with carrots and cucumbers mostly, and what's coming up there are cucumbers, jumping up to get some sun. There's also a maple seedling in the back that I found growing in my sage plant, and transferred over to see if it will live. I would like a personal maple tree.
This is the gorgeous, leafy, and somewhat astonishing little jungle of the second windowbox. I tried to get a few shots so you can see the big and leafy beans -- tall enough to reach over everything else and start climbing the pigeon netting -- next to the big thick-stemmed cucumbers, and the peas getting up there too along the front. This one is giving me such joy; this is what I had in mind as the win condition when I started doing this back in the spring. I love it madly.
And the whole thing, two views, first from the east wall and then the west.
Could still use some serious planning improvement for next year (and believe you me, I've already drafted the plans for how I'm going to do this better next year), but...starting to look like a Big Kid Garden, isn't it? :)
(N.B.: this post is really image-heavy.)
The radishes and some carrots. I don't know if those carrots ever took, to be honest -- they were started in the seed starter, and for some reason, I think because of the light, the stuff that started inside didn't do as well overall as the stuff that started outside from the seed. But the radishes are tiny and lovely and just about ready to dig. Radish salad sometime next week!
The original windowbox. The beans there are pretty much in a steady-state; even though that middle one's looking a bit yellow it's just the light. I put a few radishes in there when I thinned out the radish pot, to give them some room, and they're between the beans and the pea plant.
Here's the pea plant in that windowbox, complete with rubber band to hold it on its $&#*ing stake and a pea growing right in the blurry centre of the picture (sorry, my hand twitched). And the radish in the windowbox, peeking above the soil line. Hi, little radish.
The mint and marjoram, both flowering.
New pot, just planted last week, with pea and spinach shoots peeking out. The long wispy ones are the spinach.
Another new one -- this one a fakeout whole bed with drainage holes and a layer of what would have been recycling in the bottom -- that I set up last week when I was thwarted in the matter of another windowbox. This is planted with carrots and cucumbers mostly, and what's coming up there are cucumbers, jumping up to get some sun. There's also a maple seedling in the back that I found growing in my sage plant, and transferred over to see if it will live. I would like a personal maple tree.
This is the gorgeous, leafy, and somewhat astonishing little jungle of the second windowbox. I tried to get a few shots so you can see the big and leafy beans -- tall enough to reach over everything else and start climbing the pigeon netting -- next to the big thick-stemmed cucumbers, and the peas getting up there too along the front. This one is giving me such joy; this is what I had in mind as the win condition when I started doing this back in the spring. I love it madly.
And the whole thing, two views, first from the east wall and then the west.
Could still use some serious planning improvement for next year (and believe you me, I've already drafted the plans for how I'm going to do this better next year), but...starting to look like a Big Kid Garden, isn't it? :)
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Date: 2008-07-30 01:37 am (UTC)Even though I live in a house, I grow all our veggies in pots. Always wanted to try radishes but have always had bad luck with them as with basil. Now, potatoes, corn, tomato, peas, bush zucchini, assorted peppers (bell and hot), mixed lettuce, and all other herbs have been successful. Potatoes in the biggest pot one can find was a blast and recommended if you have good sunlight.
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Date: 2008-07-30 01:46 am (UTC)I have mixed luck with basil; it's a delicate little fainting princess of a plant. I have a thai basil going merrily in the window right now, but when the light gets a little less consistent this fall I'm not sure how it'll do.
Potatoes! I want to try potatoes next year. I couldn't find any when I did my seed shopping. And corn!
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Date: 2008-07-30 03:57 am (UTC)It's a very aromatic green leafy herb that's quite popular with teenagers.
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Dill weed!
(what did you think I was talking about?)
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Date: 2008-07-30 04:03 am (UTC)