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It’s been a while since I checked on my garden.
So I went out walking yesterday, wandered up Percy street, stopped in at the Umi Garden to check things out.
My squash, while still tiny, *is* actually growing and producing flowers. So there’s a slim chance I might get a butter-cup squash or a delecata or something out of this by late October. Woohoo!
Similarly, I have beans, which are flowering. They are little vines. Not so strong as I’d hoped. But they are still vines. I am trying to train them to grow along the fence. I’ve also been pulling up wild spinach and quack grass a whole lot, because I want my food-plants to get more sun.
I feel so… strange… about that. Because I let the wild spinach take over. In part because, hey, I like wild spinach, but also because I didn’t want my seeded-but-not-sprouted ground to (A) look like nothing was growing in it, or (B) wash away in the torrential rains. Root-systems are good for that.
Oh. And I have two corn plants. Much to my surprise, that actually poked their heads up and looked around.
I’m absolutely not expecting to get any corn from them – they are about one foot tall, after all, and at this point a corn-producing plant would be about six times that size and producing pollen stalks like woah. So that probably won’t turn anything up. But it’s still *growing* which is more than I’ve managed to get corn to do in the past, so yay. :-)
On top of this, while the dill and the cilantro both died fast and horrible deaths, the basil is going great gang-busters (I think this calls for a coconut-curried-rice salad with ground cherries and black beans, don’t you?) and the tomatoes – which I planted from sprouts, courtesy of Umi – are doing just dandy. They are actually *fruiting*, no less! :-D Which means there will be tomatoes in a couple of weeks. Woohoo! :-D (I hope to, well, Earth, that I don’t miss them due to being in Ithaca!)
So there is food, actual food, growing in my little, tiny garden. I am pleased, and rather excited, about this state of affairs. :-D
Also: Vaguely Related Link of the Day (from Pandagon):
You want more cooking? Then you want more feminism.
A piece that is, at least tangentially, about how "More HEalthy Home Cooking is Good" does not have to equal "Feminism is Bad and Women Should Get Back in the Kitchen".
Unrelated Link (from PunkAss Blog):
How Is Someone Supposed to Figure That Out Anyway?
About tryng to figure out What To Do With Your Life. Boy, is that feeling familiar.
So I went out walking yesterday, wandered up Percy street, stopped in at the Umi Garden to check things out.
My squash, while still tiny, *is* actually growing and producing flowers. So there’s a slim chance I might get a butter-cup squash or a delecata or something out of this by late October. Woohoo!
Similarly, I have beans, which are flowering. They are little vines. Not so strong as I’d hoped. But they are still vines. I am trying to train them to grow along the fence. I’ve also been pulling up wild spinach and quack grass a whole lot, because I want my food-plants to get more sun.
I feel so… strange… about that. Because I let the wild spinach take over. In part because, hey, I like wild spinach, but also because I didn’t want my seeded-but-not-sprouted ground to (A) look like nothing was growing in it, or (B) wash away in the torrential rains. Root-systems are good for that.
Oh. And I have two corn plants. Much to my surprise, that actually poked their heads up and looked around.
I’m absolutely not expecting to get any corn from them – they are about one foot tall, after all, and at this point a corn-producing plant would be about six times that size and producing pollen stalks like woah. So that probably won’t turn anything up. But it’s still *growing* which is more than I’ve managed to get corn to do in the past, so yay. :-)
On top of this, while the dill and the cilantro both died fast and horrible deaths, the basil is going great gang-busters (I think this calls for a coconut-curried-rice salad with ground cherries and black beans, don’t you?) and the tomatoes – which I planted from sprouts, courtesy of Umi – are doing just dandy. They are actually *fruiting*, no less! :-D Which means there will be tomatoes in a couple of weeks. Woohoo! :-D (I hope to, well, Earth, that I don’t miss them due to being in Ithaca!)
So there is food, actual food, growing in my little, tiny garden. I am pleased, and rather excited, about this state of affairs. :-D
Also: Vaguely Related Link of the Day (from Pandagon):
You want more cooking? Then you want more feminism.
A piece that is, at least tangentially, about how "More HEalthy Home Cooking is Good" does not have to equal "Feminism is Bad and Women Should Get Back in the Kitchen".
Unrelated Link (from PunkAss Blog):
How Is Someone Supposed to Figure That Out Anyway?
About tryng to figure out What To Do With Your Life. Boy, is that feeling familiar.
