Yesterday I discovered a pot that had gotten moved to an unexpected location, full of what I thought was a "handful"of baby lavenders. After splitting them all into their own pots, I now have 45 baby lavenders. Whoops.
Our self-seeded salad beds are bumping along after some rains and cool days, and I think I’ll get a few more rounds of harvests in before they start bolting. I’ll have to redo my peppers though. This morning was spent cutting back some of the stuff in our area with living pathways to feed to the veggies, chop 'n drop style.
This afternoon I’m going to hide in the shade (supposed to get up to 90° F) and split out some mob pots with New Jersey Tea and passionfruit (P. incarnata) seedlings. We’re a ways north of the passionfruit’s native range, so these are more for experimentation than for sales.
What’s growing on with you all?
My irrigation controller died while I was away so my corn is a lost cause, but my watermelon seems happy still
We were talking (there will be more to come on “we” elsewhere) today about planning locations for raised beds in the yard, but as this is Texas, the window for a summer harvest is closed, so there isn’t much of a rush.
Ideally, we could get in a fall planting and see what winter crops fare decently. I’ve been out of the gardening scene for over a decade, and I don’t even know what zone we’re in locally. There’s going to be a lot of remedial learning before I’m anywhere near what I once knew.
My main goal is always New Mexican strains of C. annum, followed by crucifers and Allia. And of course some herbs. I’ll happily put the effort into whatever else others would like, but here we get back to colocation and amendments, which I’m rusty as hell on.
Still, it’s fun to be thinking about such things again.
Kale, chard, radishes, and strawberries are daily harvests. Squashes, peppers, and tomatoes are coming in fast. Haven’t had a sunflower bloom yet but there’s dozens that are waist high.
I’ve been harvesting lots of kale, radish, and lettuce for salads. In hindsight I should have staggered my radish plantings a bit because they’re all maturing at the same time - and some are getting quite spicy!
Miraculously the two blueberry bushes I planted last year which subsequently got chomped down to sticks have survived and leafed out, so I’m pleased about that. Also spotted a wild grape vine growing near by which I’m going to encourage.
The corn’s starting to come up now, and it’s that fun time of year where stuff starts just taking off.
I’m nearly done with my little fence around my garden beds. Just in time for stuff to start sprouting too. Hopefully it’s enough to keep the groundhog from eating everything this year.
Raspberries look like they are doing well, new strawberry plants seem to be mostly established, the plum tree sprout is big enough to be noticeable this year, and the blueberries … well, I don’t think they’re dead yet…
Very nice! We’re in the process of evicting a groundhog at the library garden, I wish you good luck! Your blueberries might be worth their own post, maybe the community can help them out.
I planted a bunch of seeds that are now outgrowing their little pots. They look great but I have to figure out where to plant them. I may have 8 ghost pepper plants. Oops.
but I have to figure out where to plant them
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