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27 May 2008Moving on Out! Lime Basil Transplanted and North Square 1 gardenTwo of the seedlings survived the two week hardening off and were transplanted in the SW square bed on the north side of the house. On is on the west side of the bed and the other on the south side. I broke off all but the top two leaves and planted it right up to those leaves. I was reading in O...Overcast 16°C / 60°F
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25 May 2008Pesto Garden Begins! Greek Basil 'Greek Spicy Globe Basil' Transplanted and Front Terrace garden5 of the seedlings survived hardening off and were planted beneath the peach tree (it’s young and doesn’t offer much shade yet) this evening. They were joined with some silverskin garlics as well for a PESTO garden :-) We’re planting much more basil of course, but we found the g...Sunny 22°C / 72°F
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24 May 2008Sown Garlic Silverskin Garlic Sown and Front Terrace gardenSo we’re like 2 months late planting the garlic. However, we are planting it more for companion sake than expecting to get a great crop from it. My grandparents’ neighbors swear by planting garlic around the base of their fruit trees to keep worms out of the fruit. My dad sent me hom...Cloudy 23°C / 73°F
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18 May 2008Flowering! Strawberry 'Everbearing' Flowering and Strawberry Garden gardenSunny 23°C / 73°F
The established everbearing plants started flowering about a week to ten days ago. The newer runners have now joined in the flowering game as well I believe. I can almost taste those strawberries plucked direct from our garden!
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18 May 2008Flowering! 2 Wild Strawberries Flowering and Strawberry Garden gardenIn the last week or so the wild strawberries have joined in on the flowering. Perhaps this year DH and I won’t have to Rochambeau over who gets to eat the one strawberry we got to pick at a time, LOL! Of course we need to get the netting up if we wish to partake in any of the fruit though.Sunny 23°C / 73°F
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07 May 2008We've Got Blossoms! 1 1 Elberta Peach Flowering and Front Terrace gardenOvercast 14°C / 57°F
The peach tree has been flowering over the past ten days or so.
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05 Apr 2008Sown Chives 'Common' Sown
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05 Apr 2008Sown 2
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05 Apr 2008Sown Spinach 'America' Sown
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05 Apr 2008Sown Cilantro 'Slow Bolt' Sown

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