Posted on October 22, 2021October 22, 2021Dwarf tomatoes for winter indoors Put them into their pots for the winter.
Posted on October 16, 2021October 16, 2021Mizuna sprouted in barely two days And it’s growing industriously! The ones we transplanted out front got eaten, whether by earwigs or bunnies, so these went into the backyard planter.
Posted on October 8, 2021October 8, 2021It lives!!!! Liatris mucronata from home!! This is its first year, so I expect it will be big and showy next year. For now, I’m just happy it’s alive.
Posted on September 26, 2021September 26, 2021Window babies Chijimisai greens are not frost hardy so they will live indoors and the bok choy (smaller pot) is just small and cute 🤣 We put half the Roman chamomile outside to get bigger and half here to get bigger before going outside. In the back is a chocolate bell pepper that has sprouted but not pushed the seed coat off its seed leaves.
Posted on September 26, 2021September 26, 2021Afternoon harvest and repotting Buckwheat is blooming. Peruvian ground cherries are having a few potential fruits! Paula and I repotted all the winter babies. More babies. The Missouri Yellow Watermelon weighs almost 12 lbs! It’s so ripe that when I started to slice, it cracked open more on its own. It was very tasty and sweet and crisp. In the evening, I sliced some peppers for freezing. Green ones are jalapeños from our garden and red ones are serranos from a friend. I made a small batch of salsa verde. Too little to can, so I froze it.
Posted on September 6, 2021September 6, 2021Labor day, last of wild three day weekend Buckwheat about to bloom. The two honeyberries that I planted, then moved for geothermal, then planted again, have been very unhappy lately, but some long slow drips with hose have revived one. Hoping the second plant follows suit.
Posted on September 6, 2021September 7, 2021Holiday Sunday An outdoor dinner. Garden basil and oregano. Moved the chives and garlic chives that Judy gave me last year. Maybe they’ll like this spot better. Uzbek golden, little, and New Kuroda carrots. Gram helps me get seeds out. Fall seeds planted of cabbage, mizuna, greens, and cauliflower. Tomatoes and peppers for overwintering. And a few pots of Roman chamomile for the front yard ground cover. This is where I shall attempt peppers and tomatoes over the winter. This goldenrod was already here and is doing very nicely. A giant 1″+ horsefly on a backyard window sill. Never going outside again. I lied. Outside again. Chiltepin peppers. Frostweed doing alright after it died back earlier in summer. A little spider got this Eastern Tailed-Blue on the englemann daisy. Texas mallow blooming! The non native clematis. I’ll clean it out over the winter. Okra flower A bumblebee on the okra!
Posted on July 22, 2021July 22, 2021Getting there on post-geothermal landscaping and other Wednesday news You can see where I plan to put Peruvian ground cherries (the tomato cages) and honeyberries (white flags) on the last raised bed in the side yard. Those four plants were dug up when the geothermal HVAC was put in. Ready to be planted! The buckwheat seeds I planted around them. I’ll take another pic in a day or two as it got too dark by the time I got done planting and watering them. Earlier in the day I noticed the bisbee gray cowpeas are producing nicely in backyard. One lone seedling of a Texas mallow is coming up! A native cucurbit with a very tiny gourd. Not edible or at least not good according to various sources. But it’s an adorable vine and quite pretty when a bunch grows in one spot.
Posted on June 19, 2021June 19, 2021Rainbow garden beds progress Replanted coreopsis looking rather worse for the wear but still has some leaves, so I hope for its recovery. Mealy blue sage for blue. Seedlings transplanted to pots from near the house ones, and now grown big enough for the ground. Culinary sage for a light purple. Waiting on other colors but you can see it’s starting to take shape! The peach tree will be part of the orange section. The butterfly weed seeds will probably take a while to get going, so I am also waiting on some marigold seeds for fast orange.