Tag: lilkittay

lilkittay:

It’s been so dry since the heat wave and I’ve had to keep the garden on life support carrying buckets of water until they put out the hoses for the year.

My little plant babies are hanging on, although no sign yet of the carrots or parsnips.

The blackberries are finally blooming in their third year. I’m hoping I get to have some fruit and that birds and beetles don’t enjoy it all.

It’s hard to “condition” straw bales when it’s so dry I can’t soak them. Hoses will help. I also don’t know if they didn’t do it on their own over the winter as they did sit out in the weather since last October. The bottles have holes in them that are supposed to trickle water down into the bales. They empty fairly quickly so it ends up just being a little extra water after soaking the bales. Which isn’t a bad thing, in summer.

Unexpected strawberry bounty. I had no idea this many flowers were on the plants. It’s their third year so I am not expecting as much from them next year. This year I will NOT miss picking them.

The lupines are blooming again this year. I am seeing little baby lupine plants all over the place. I am going to try not to step on them or till them or let them get smothered by weeds. I wouldn’t mind more of them around next year.

lilkittay:

That is a “dwarf” tomato plant. Lies, I say. It seems a little shorter than regular plants but it is still going to be huge and is already pumping out flowers like crazy.

The bucket of chard and kale is huge, and I just picked some a few days ago. Both buckets are mostly recycled soil from last year’s potato plants. The upper layer is new soil. I might have mixed in some organic fertilizer into the old soil. That might explain the huge growth.

I’ve got lettuce to harvest, and my planters all look really pretty.

The baskets are coming along slowly. Marigolds are not growing as fast anywhere as I would expect them to, and I’ve had to prune the oregano back in one pot because it got huge really fast.

The lemongrass is coming along nicely and it’s starting to get established enough that I can let the cats munch on it freely.