Intrepid little garden

[baronessekat]

I have to admit that after seeing Dicea's porch garden today (planted the same time mine was) I was very disheartened.

Now granted, I have a black thumb. I have been known and proven to kill Aloe and Air Ferns.

But my sad little garden has taken a step forward. One of the pumpkin plants has tripled in size.

And I have a couple blossoms!

tomatoes:


One little pea blossom:

Comments

[dicea.livejournal.com]

I don't want my wee jungle to look too impressive to you, love. It's got lots of green, but we've yet to see how productive it is. Sometimes the danger of over fertilization is that the plants grow too much too fast and the structures are too weak to support fruit. or the growth goes into the green and not into the fruit. We really can't tell from the growing how the producing will turn out.

Also, consider the herb garden that you have tricking out in your inverted planter. Last I saw it it looked good and happy. Something that can move inside during the cold season and continue producing. My parsley is a sickly and pathetic looking yellow.

If this season does not grow well for your raised bed, I think we should add another bed on top of it and buy the products that were contained in the kit I bought enough to fill that bed and plant by those guidelines and instructions.

If we work on this as a team then our experiments may point the way toward regular modest success in time.

What you have built in your garden is beautiful and good. You have done it with your own hands and I am proud of you beyond words.

[apidae.livejournal.com]

Good for you for getting things planted -- that's one step further than we've done this summer! And yay pumpkins!