Posted in peas, pollination, strawberries, tomatoes on July 22, 2008 | No Comments »
The garden is completely exploding with foliage.
I can’t believe how big the tomato plants are (righthand side of the above photo)– especially considering I was so worried about them surviving when I first transplanted them this spring!
What is puzzling to me (though not unwelcome!) is that the peas have started producing again!
At the [...]
Posted in container garden research, cucumbers, pollination on June 30, 2008 | 7 Comments »
or, “A brief photo tutorial on hand-pollinating cucumbers.”
A bit of introduction:
Last year, I was having problems with getting cucumbers to grow. I’d see the flowers, I’d see the baby cucumbers (which I later learned were female flowers, more about that below), and then the baby cucumbers would shrivel. I posted about it in [...]
Posted in cucumbers, pollination on June 27, 2008 | 2 Comments »
There are 2 baby cucumbers starting on one of my cucumber vines! Yay! I tried to pollinate the one that had bloomed, but it had just rained and everything was pretty wet. We’ll see….
I’ll be posting a detailed post on hand-pollinating soon…
Posted in pollination, strawberries on June 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Husband was inspecting the strawberry plants yesterday morning and noticed that we have some blushing berries!! Here’s a photo that I took when I got home from work yesterday:
I’m hoping they get bigger as they ripen, since these are looking pretty tiny still! I’ve actually never witnessed strawberry growth on a plant, having always bought [...]
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 container garden research, pollination, strawberries on May 22, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I’ve been thinking about the strawberry flowers recently and wondering how the flower turns into the fruit. Tomatoes are self-pollinating. With my cucumbers, I had to pollinate the female flowers with pollen from the male flowers by hand (see here and here and especially the comments here). So I started to wonder about the strawberries. [...]
Posted in cucumbers, pollination on August 20, 2007 | No Comments »
On Saturday, I went out onto the balcony and gave my cucumbers a closer look. I’m still suspicious that the pot is too full of vines. I started trimming off all the dead-looking leaves and the shrivelling baby cucumbers, and in the process noticed that I could easily trace two of my vines [...]
Posted in cucumbers, peppers, pollination, sun, tomatoes on August 15, 2007 | No Comments »
For the most part, I’d say that my container garden is still successfully growing. The tomatoes just keep coming– and I’m definitely not complaining about that! MMMMMM home-grown tomatoes…. you can’t get much better than that.
In my last post I mentioned that my pepper plants were all bendy. They seem to be [...]
Posted in Thankful Thursdays, cucumbers, fertilizing, peppers, pollination, tomatoes on August 4, 2007 | 1 Comment »
So it’s time for an update!
My husband and I were in Corsica for two weeks, which is part of the reason there have been no updates on this blog for a good long while. The other part of the reason is that I have been very busy with research (partly due to the fact [...]
