We’ve had rain and gray skies for over a week. On the one hand, we don’t have to water. On the other hand, you can practically hear the peppers crying for lack of sun. Still, the garden rolls on. We’ve had some big milestones since the last garden report: flowers on [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘6. June’
June 28, 2008
A Very Maple Hoo Harvest
We were greatly encouraged by our “poking at the potatoes to see what’s going on down there” test harvest last night, and discovered the Desirees were already way bigger than we really wanted them to be. They were the first of our potatoes to sprout, and the first to flower by far, and now [...]
June 28, 2008
Cute Baby Veggies
On a day that saw some full-on, grown-up, for-reals vegetables pulled up out of the ground, we were equally excited to see some wee baby crops developing around the other beds.
For starters, the nardello peppers are spending all their energy growing peppers the size of the entire tiny plants. We should probably take [...]
June 27, 2008
Tuber Pommerdoodling!
The potato plants are, officially, completely out of control at this point.
This picture was taking four days ago, and the plants are actually about a quarter again as big now as they were then. If this goes on much longer, they are going to swallow up our house. Which means it’s time to [...]
June 15, 2008
Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day
Okay, so today is Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day, a series we absolutely adore. It’s such a great idea to gather pictures from garden bloggers the world over, because it’s a ton of fun to see how things are growing on other parts of the planet, and to see how universal a gardener’s pride is. [...]
June 9, 2008
Exciting News From The Garden
While trimming some of the extra branches at the bottoms of the tomatoes, I took a closer look at where the first blossom on the Black Plum had been on May 15th. Lo and behold, it’s turned into a tomato!
We’ll be eating garden-fresh pasta sauce in no time!
June 5, 2008
How Does Our Garden Grow?
Now that the hockey season is over, it’s time to turn the full volume of our obsessive tendencies to the garden! And as of June 1, things in there are starting to look pretty, well, gardeny.
For starters, there are the potatoes, with the first potato bloom of the season:
The plants themselves, meanwhile, are waist [...]
