Garden, Late May
May. 29th, 2009 06:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
leahbobetReaders, the temperatures are up. The rain, it has been falling, and all these things have committed Agriculture upon my balcony.
First off, I committed a little more Agriculture on my own last week: the purchasing of two beefsteak tomato plants and one eggplant-plant.
As you see, the one tomato is in last year's small windowbox, and the other is in a nice big green pot. They both seem to be getting enough sun. They're a bit droopy mostly because I didn't water Wednesday or Thursday, because I am a Bad Mom.
The eggplant has sorted itself out into individual plants, apparently, and is looking a titch sunburnt, so I might need to move it over in the near future.
The little white pot between tomato and eggplant has been planted with leftover sweet peas from doing the city planter on Sunday. Hopefully having some flowers will 1) smell my balcony up and 2) attract some bees to pollinate my veggies.
My railing planters? Are looking sexy.
Grey planter is a hotbed of activity -- I think everything I put in the ground there has come up. That's nice, fat-leaved beans along the right, a pea plant in the front left, and radishes left-centre, lettuces left-top.
Green planter is moving a little slower. These two peas are all ready for business; the beans are coming up behind them slower, and there's a cucumber starting its way into the world in the corner. I definitely think it's the sunlight. But it'll all equal out shortly.
This is what a bean looks like as it's coming up; first, blurry picture has the leaves tucked into the split in the seed, which is now all green and bright (you can just barely see them), and in the second they fold out, leaving the original seed bits behind them. The brown thing on the second one is the bean's skin, all sloughed off.
And this? This is nothing much yet. But I sowed it with spinach and strawberries this evening, so perhaps by next update there will be something to show you.
Next project? Figure out what I want to do with the blue fake raised beds. And maybe start shuffling tables around out there to optimize my sunlight-accessible growing space.
And buy more seeds.
First off, I committed a little more Agriculture on my own last week: the purchasing of two beefsteak tomato plants and one eggplant-plant.
As you see, the one tomato is in last year's small windowbox, and the other is in a nice big green pot. They both seem to be getting enough sun. They're a bit droopy mostly because I didn't water Wednesday or Thursday, because I am a Bad Mom.
The eggplant has sorted itself out into individual plants, apparently, and is looking a titch sunburnt, so I might need to move it over in the near future.
The little white pot between tomato and eggplant has been planted with leftover sweet peas from doing the city planter on Sunday. Hopefully having some flowers will 1) smell my balcony up and 2) attract some bees to pollinate my veggies.
My railing planters? Are looking sexy.
Grey planter is a hotbed of activity -- I think everything I put in the ground there has come up. That's nice, fat-leaved beans along the right, a pea plant in the front left, and radishes left-centre, lettuces left-top.
Green planter is moving a little slower. These two peas are all ready for business; the beans are coming up behind them slower, and there's a cucumber starting its way into the world in the corner. I definitely think it's the sunlight. But it'll all equal out shortly.
This is what a bean looks like as it's coming up; first, blurry picture has the leaves tucked into the split in the seed, which is now all green and bright (you can just barely see them), and in the second they fold out, leaving the original seed bits behind them. The brown thing on the second one is the bean's skin, all sloughed off.
And this? This is nothing much yet. But I sowed it with spinach and strawberries this evening, so perhaps by next update there will be something to show you.
Next project? Figure out what I want to do with the blue fake raised beds. And maybe start shuffling tables around out there to optimize my sunlight-accessible growing space.
And buy more seeds.
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Date: 2009-05-29 11:13 pm (UTC)MMmmm delicious edible plants.
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Date: 2009-05-30 09:15 pm (UTC)"They're a bit droopy mostly because I didn't water Wednesday or Thursday, because I am a Bad Mom."
I cannot imagine doing that. I think half my plants would have shriveled up and died by then. (maybe not now, because we our June Gloom has arrived a wee bit early this year. But most summer days, certainly.)
"Hopefully having some flowers will 1) smell my balcony up and 2) attract some bees to pollinate my veggies."
That is a super smart idea. And a good excuse for me to get some flowers. :)
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Date: 2009-05-31 05:35 am (UTC)