“I had that familiar conviction that life
was beginning over again
with the summer”
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Summer is here
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Category Archives: growth
Grow…NOW…Seriously, I mean NOW!
I am a very demanding gardener. I just planted my first seeds of the season in our new backyard (in my OLD pots) and I want them to start growing, yesterday. I am used to extremely fast results in growth because of the awesome soil combo that I had in my old garden. Man, I miss that garden….
Anyways, although I know results in two weeks will not happen it doesn’t mean I’m not secretly wishing that one morning I will walk there and I suddenly will have plants! And if my seeds don’t take off this year I have decided that I am going to blame the pots. I have never had a garden in pots and I am a little leery. So if it fails you will hear a lot of “Stupid Pots” remarks.
Here is what is happening now:
New Seeds in old pots
The left orange pot has basil the wood thing has cilantro
Now for some pictures of dirt:
Yesterday I did invest in that blue container. It will be my new compost. I left my huge awesome one at the other house. I was upset when leaving the house and I didn’t want to venture into the backyard for fear of getting too sad. So I am starting over with a blue trash can and it will soon have holes for air. The silver is my compost for the kitchen.
I also bought myself a little treat:
Pre-grown plants!
Tomato and Strawberries!
So this is the new stage of gardening for me. Let’s hope it works and those stupid pots don’t screw it up!
A winner and a Big Melon
I just realized and never put a stop date on this giveaway thing….Anyways, I just random generated a winner and Jamie author of From My Kitchen To Yours, it’s time for you to take a break! I know you need one because your blog is all about your great cooking! I will be sending you an email!!
In other news, I got my hands on a friends melons the other day…That’s right, HER melons and they were good. Better than mine… I took pictures.
Another stellar picture – You know that is fresh when you can still see where it was connect to the vine.
mmm…This honeydew was good! Mine was not anywhere as sweet OR big. They were punny, tiny… I need to do better next year.
The big ol’mess
I am ready to rip out my garden and start for fall. Those stinkin squash bugs are everywhere! I thought I had won the war when I ripped out the pumpkin plants but they have made a counter strike on the cantaloupe plants.
So I am exacting my revenge in the next couple of weeks. I am taking out EVERYTHING! MWAH HA HA!
I went to take pictures of my soon to be former plants and here is the wonderful treat I received….
Thunderstorms! It is almost pitch black now from the cloud cover…Love it….
Here is what I really wanted to show you
Oregano…It FINALLY grew.
The flowers planted purely out of experimentation took over the box. However it seems as if they are providing moral support to the oregano and he has decided to make a go at life. Go obnoxious flowers!
Bell Pepper – I believe he will be allowed to live. I already named him, Fred, so he can’t die
This is a little treat for you…Here is my mess of a garden….
Let’s play a game…Who can see Stevey?
Here is the rest of my messy backyard.
I hope that these pictures provide some encouragement for those who believe their backyard is terrible. Mine is probably worse. Eh, well, at least the Black Widows like it.
Stay Tuned for my next post – Ode to the lamp in the playroom..
Yup, that’s right, it will be that exciting!
