Posted in cucumbers, herbs, lettuces, peas, strawberries, tomatoes on June 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Well, I think it’s pretty, anyway Here are some photos I took yesterday in the beautiful, but fading, evening light.
the peas reach for the sky
I managed to capture a pea pod unfurling
the tomato plants continue to thrive as the lettuce “season” ends
the cucumbers are growing quickly!
the italian parsley is thriving! (unfortunately the other [...]
Posted in cucumbers, lettuces, peas, pollination, sprouts, strawberries, sun, tomato cages, tomatoes on June 5, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Here’s another big long update post!
Last Friday evening, we cut our first bunch of mesclun leaves!
We mixed them into a big salad that we served when friends of ours came for dinner Yum! I think that from now on, all of my gardens will include a Mesclun mix! We harvested some [...]
Posted in cucumbers, herbs, lettuces, peas, pollination, sprouts, strawberries, sun, tomato cages, tomatoes on May 29, 2008 | No Comments »
The weather here has been cold and kind of nasty, so my garden isn’t faring as well as I’d like. The chilliness isn’t the worst part– it’s been raining so much that there’s been hardly any sun for my poor plantlings. It’s not terrible (yet), but not great either. I went and took [...]
Posted in lettuces, peas, planting, sprouts, tomatoes on May 21, 2008 | No Comments »
The past few days it’s been much cooler than you might expect for a midwestern May and it’s also been pretty windy. I was pretty worried about the little tomato sprouts, because after their first night outside, each sprout had at least one wilted leaf. So on Sunday, I started looking around for something to [...]
Posted in cucumbers, herbs, lettuces, peas, sprouts, strawberries, tomato cages on May 16, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Wednesday was rather damp in the morning… I was working from home, so I took a break at one point and went out to investigate the goings-on of the garden. The rain was so pretty on the leaves of one of the lettuces in the Mesclun…
I really need to learn which leaves match [...]
Posted in fertilizing, lettuces, planting, seeds, sprouts, sun, watering on May 12, 2008 | 5 Comments »
My black-seeded Simpson is not doing very well. I’m not exactly sure what the problem is. Ever since I thinned them, the sprouts have languished– one of them has even flat out died. They don’t seem to have any self-support the way they used to, and I usually find them sort of lying down. Perhaps [...]
Posted in containers, lettuces, peas, sprouts, strawberries on May 4, 2008 | No Comments »
So the black seeded simpson is doing great!! So today I decided to thin it out… Here’s a photo of the before:
The black seeded simpson seed packet said to thin the sprouts to 10″ to 12″ apart, so here’s the after for the two black seeded simpson pots:
I left 4 seedlings in the [...]
Posted in container garden research, cucumbers, herbs, lettuces, sewing, vintage dress project on April 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »
It’s been a while since I’ve posted, considering it’s spring and things are growing in my garden! Here’s a list of things I plan to do in the near future:
photo update of the garden & tomato seedlings
write a “Strawberries” page (tab)
write a “Peas” page (tab)
start looking into thinning the lettuce sprouts
The cucumber seeds haven’t sprouted [...]
Posted in cucumbers, herbs, lettuces, peas, planting, potting soil, seeds, sprouts, strawberries, tomato cages, watering on April 20, 2008 | No Comments »
This garden is going to be our biggest one yet!
First, a quick update:
I FOUND A PEA SPROUT YESTERDAY!
I had almost given up on the peas, because it had been 14 days with no sign of a sprout. I was going to sort of poke around in the soil and see (by sacrificing one seed, if [...]
Posted in garden planning, lettuces, seeds, sprouts, strawberries, tomatoes on April 15, 2008 | 3 Comments »
On Friday, I started seeing true leaves on my tomato sprouts:
I also found that the lettuce seeds had sprouted!! Unfortunately, the photos I tried to take with my camera that day turned out blurry, since the cloudy weather made for dim lighting at that time of the evening.
BUT, I took more photos of the [...]
