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 [...]
Posted in cucumbers, herbs, lettuces, peas, pollination, sprouts, strawberries, sun, tomato cages, tomatoes on May 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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 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 not about gardening, sun on March 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A Thursday or so ago, I mentioned that I was hearing birdsong in the mornings. I am so excited that spring is coming. For some reason this winter has seemed extra long and depressing, and it is so good for the soul to see signs of spring renewal! It’s weird, but the time change [...]
Posted in cucumbers, herbs, peppers, sun, tomatoes on November 30, 2007 | 1 Comment »
This post is going to be sort of a summary of my garden this past summer– what worked and what didn’t… and a future post will perhaps muse on what I hope to do for next year
Tomatoes
The tomato plants worked out really well!! If only we hadn’t gone out of town right [...]
Posted in cucumbers, herbs, peppers, sun, tomatoes, winterizing on October 30, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Well, I saw the first frost yesterday morning (at least, I was up early enough to see whether there was frost). We had been prepared for it though…
Here’s a picture of the dying garden on Saturday afternoon before I started the dismantling process.
The tomato and pepper plants aren’t really quite dead, but it’s too [...]
Posted in aphids, potting soil, sun on October 7, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I think I’ve been battling a new garden pest the past few days… whiteflies. Any time that I brush the tomato plants, and to a lesser extent the cucumbers and the peppers, a cloud of tiny white flying things arises.
I suppose they could be flying aphids, but when I described them to an entymologist friend, [...]
Posted in cucumbers, peppers, pollination, sun, tomatoes on August 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
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 aphids, cucumbers, fertilizing, peppers, sun, tomatoes on July 7, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The garden is getting along smashingly… and on Independence Day, I picked our first produce– the double cucumber highlighted in this entry. I rarely buy cucumbers in the grocery store because they just seem outrageously priced, even though I absolutely love them. So eating this cucumber was such a treat!
I probably could have [...]
Posted in Thankful Thursdays, cucumbers, peppers, sun, tomatoes on May 24, 2007 | 1 Comment »
This week I am thankful for really good progress at work! Things are really starting to come together, and I have had a couple really good meetings with my advisor. And it looks like my thesis project is starting to take shape– and it looks like I will be able to graduate in [...]
