![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Stand Back! I'm going to try Gardening!
Jul. 13th, 2010 10:13 pmToday after work I drove home, decompressed, and then headed out to the garden, implements in hand. Tomatoes got tied up. Corn (probably knocked over by a marauding neighborhood kitty) got propped up. Weeds got pulled up. And so did the beets and turnips and lettuce that had gone to seed, since I wasn't actually doing seed-saving from any of them. (The leeks and radishes got to stay.) So now the compost bin is full to the top with green stuff and has a pile of large root-y things in front of it, waiting to get chopped up before I toss them in as well. Looks like one of the eggplant plants has had it (probably good since I have too many) and less happily, it looks like one of the jalepeno plants is all done in as well. At least I have two others in the gallon pots that I can replace it with.
Unfortunately, I'm also still pulling up Bermuda grass as it resprouts from root fragments. I suspect that will continue to be a battle for a while....
Also done in are two of my squash plants. Interestingly, they're the professionally grown ones my boss gave me as extras from when he planted his garden. The ones I started aren't always happy (particularly the ones in pots instead of the ground) but neither are they actively dying. Yet. Knock on wood. Also interesting to me is the fact that the tomato plants I have along the cinderblock fences in the back yard aren't doing nearly as well as the ones I have in the kitchen garden proper, despite my having amended the soil better there. I don't know whether it's the cool weather this summer, or my having planted late, or what, but I'm not actually harvesting all that much. I've got a couple bags (~25 each) of jalepenos in the freezer, have picked maybe half a dozen tomatoes and a few dozen cherry tomatoes, and the lemon tree is steady in producing what I need, but... no squash. Which is like the canonical summer thing. The eggplants are overbearing, of course, and![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
racerxmachina, roseembolism, and I picked a lot of dry scarlet runner beans that they took with them, but the stuff that's doing well (those + garlic + onions) is all stuff carried over from last year.
Will just have to see how the summer goes.
Unfortunately, I'm also still pulling up Bermuda grass as it resprouts from root fragments. I suspect that will continue to be a battle for a while....
Also done in are two of my squash plants. Interestingly, they're the professionally grown ones my boss gave me as extras from when he planted his garden. The ones I started aren't always happy (particularly the ones in pots instead of the ground) but neither are they actively dying. Yet. Knock on wood. Also interesting to me is the fact that the tomato plants I have along the cinderblock fences in the back yard aren't doing nearly as well as the ones I have in the kitchen garden proper, despite my having amended the soil better there. I don't know whether it's the cool weather this summer, or my having planted late, or what, but I'm not actually harvesting all that much. I've got a couple bags (~25 each) of jalepenos in the freezer, have picked maybe half a dozen tomatoes and a few dozen cherry tomatoes, and the lemon tree is steady in producing what I need, but... no squash. Which is like the canonical summer thing. The eggplants are overbearing, of course, and
racerxmachina, roseembolism, and I picked a lot of dry scarlet runner beans that they took with them, but the stuff that's doing well (those + garlic + onions) is all stuff carried over from last year.Will just have to see how the summer goes.
