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05 Jun 2008Added support Vegetable gardenOvercast 12°C / 54°F
Weeding and thinning continues, many good salads were had. Tomatoes are about 3 inches now, so I went ahead and put the supports in. Potatoes are getting a little rangy – trying to train them to trail over the edge and not into the rest of the bed. One of the sunflowers was bending, so I ga...
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05 Jun 2008Blooming Phlomis Blooming and Frontyard gardenOvercast 12°C / 54°F
Blooming well this year, I don’t know what happened last year that kept it from flowering.
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05 Jun 2008Blooming Oriental Poppy 'Allegro' Blooming and Frontyard gardenCloudy 12°C / 54°F
Blooming for a few days now. I think the mild weather is helping to keep the flowers around a little longer than usual.
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05 Jun 2008Blooming Mock Orange Blooming and Frontyard gardenCloudy 12°C / 54°F
Blooming down low on old wood. I need to stop pruning to get better blooms, but it gets unruly pretty quickly.
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23 May 2008second set Spring Onion 'White Lisbon' Sown and Vegetable gardenThe first row are coming along, probably give them a couple more weeks until harvest. Figured I’d throw down some more seeds to get a second harvest in the late summer.Overcast 20°C / 68°F
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23 May 2008Pulled all the bolts Chinese Cabbage 'Bok Choy' Harvesting and Vegetable gardenPulled all the bolted plants out, should be able to get a small harvest out of it. I’m a sucker, so I’ve added a few more seeds in their place, mostly to finish the seed packet.Overcast 20°C / 68°F
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23 May 2008Added more Tomatillo 'Mexican Husk' Sown and Vegetable gardenThrew a few more seeds in a spot where I had harvested bok choi.Overcast 20°C / 68°F
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23 May 2008Thinned & moved Tomato 'Roma' Transplanted and Vegetable gardenMoved some tomato sprouts (about 1" tall) from where they were growing (too close to a big potato) into a more open area of the bed.Overcast 20°C / 68°F
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23 May 2008Compost volunteers Vegetable gardenSeveral squash-like plants have been coming up in the bed. There were a number of varieties of squash in the compost, so I’m curious what varieties they will be. I hope I can give them enough room to grow.Overcast 20°C / 68°F
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19 May 2008Planting Out Ancho Chili Pepper Planting Out

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