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May 22, 2004

Garden Talk Time

Got Andy home from KSU yesterday, and he and John and I are working on improving his living environment by redoing his bedroom.

While we are busy doing that, I'd like to show off some of my plants that live outside on my deck.

I invite you to comment with links to your gardening achievements or underachievements (in my case!)

Or, I'll link with them!

Rachel Lucas has some tomatoes which are much farther along than mine.

Calliope has cute little baby corn.

Laurence Simon (late of Amish Tech Support, now of This Blog is Full of Crap)
has a very nice patio garden and he is able to grow peppers!

So here's to all my blogfriends who have gardens.
Plant pictures will be in the Extended Entry as I upload them

My tomato plants are finally blossoming:

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My strawberries are actually bearing fruit!

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Posted by Beth at May 22, 2004 2:11 PM

Comments

OK, I'll go. :)

These are my zuchini plants. I tried to get the blooms in the pic but I can't get it right. As you can see they're doing well. I don't have any fruit on them yet. Just beyond the zuchini you can see my carrots, they're way slow.

This is my cucumber. You can see a few blooms. I think this and the zuchini are doing ok. No fruit here either yet.

This is one of my tomato plants. You can see a few blooms. Good ways off from any production I think.

This is the sunniest corner of my garden. Corn is in the foreground. You saw my baby corn. After I took the pic and ran in to post it I went back and investigated a bit more. It appears when they get those things on top they polinate and then immediately they get ears. I'll know more in a week or so.

I did several things wrong. I planted from seed directly, and I should have first germinated the seeds in those egg carton things like 6 weeks before in the garage or something. This slowed the garden down by a couple months. I tried to control pests with soapy water and lady bugs rather than pesticide - bad mistake. Once the critters find your peas and stuff they're going to go to town. I ended up using a fairly eco friendly product that worked but biodegrades in a few days. I didn't want to use poison, but I didn't want to just feed the aphids either.

All in all I'm a bit disappointed, but I give myself some slack in that its been a long time since I tried to do this. I'll do way better next year, and I still have lots of time to recover this year.

Posted by: Calliope at May 22, 2004 7:03 PM