GARDEN 2023-2024
A journal of sorts
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June 1, 2024
The last broccoli, and the only one that made it to June without
flowering impossibly! It was delicious, roasted with three
kinds of beans in garlic, EVOO and a little seasoning.
June 4, 2024
Golden beets, freshly plucked from the earth.
The beets, immersed in a soothing bath, getting ready for
complete assimilation.
Brussels sprouts, growing into the summer.
June 6, 2024
Raised bed #5
Raised bed #4
Raised bed #3
Raised bed #2
Raised bed #1
Artichokes and borage and a pepper
Flower Island
Tomato Row Part 1
Tomato Row Part 2
Bean, cuke & pickle road
Tomato #10 - Italian Romas
Tomato #11 - Tomimarus
Tomato #12 - Geronimos
Mixed bag
Another shot of the Roma plant
View from the couch
One of my girls turned into a boy. Then the boy
turned into worm food ...
June 8, 2024
Raised bed #5: Eggplant, peppers, pickles.
The other end of raised bed #5. Before the jalapeno
was moved to raised bed #1.
Raised bed #3. Tomatoes, a pepper and some mint.
Raised bed #3, other end. Some melons and some
tomatillos.
Raised bed #1. A squash, some new corn, some lettuce.
Flower Island, Tomato Row and a babygirl.
Some Roma tomatoes.
June 9, 2024
The "Greenhouse Johnny's Seeds" tomatoes.
Beau's orphan Moskvitz tomato seedling.
June 10, 2024
Appears to be the first serrano pepper.
Fair tad of pattypan summer squashes.
Some tomatillos.
Some minibell peppers.
Some more minibell peppers.
Eggplants on their way...
Dragon Tongue beans.
Spoon tomatoes.
Amish paste tomatoes.
Black Beauty tomatoes.
Supposed to be Principe tomatoes but they're looking like
Black Beauties to me...
Italian Roma tomatoes.
These could be up-and-coming Tomimaru tomatoes.
These could be Geronimos. That's what they are supposed to be.
Different Geronimos.
Snapshot from Flower Island. Zinnias, snapdragons, craspedia, celosia.
Spoons with some Nasturtiums below...
June 11, 2024
Well, it's great to be all caught up and back in real time. On
April 18th, I was headed to work and some moron cut in front
of me as I was entering the intersection on a green light. If I
had been going two miles an hour faster I might have been killed
but as it was, all apparently all that happened was that my
spine, which had been recovering from a lot of disk issues that
were treated in 2019 or 2020
was re-injured and worsened.
Oh, and also that my less-than-two year old Tesla was totalled.
Luckily the Tesla (I fucking hate iGor Musk for the record) has
a bunch of cameras on it and caught the whole thing. If you
click the image below you can see the whole thing !!
This is how the Tesla ended up:
Anyway, I'm getting treatment and I got a new car and I'm still
waiting for the insurance company to pay me. They accepted
100% liability immediately when we sent them the video.
You gotta love those cameras.
Anyway, it's six weeks later and all of the various distractions;
shoe store, high blood pressure, headaches are receding and
although I rarely if ever missed a few hours out in the garden
doing what needed to be done, I'm finally caught up so I guess
the 'journal' can re-commence.
All of the plants were given organic fertilizers for growth on
Sunday morning, and were followed up yesterday (it was a
warm, sunny day for a change) with watering so I'm leaving
them alone for today aside from doing a lot of maintainence
work with plastic tape tying up ever-growing tomato and
squash branches so they don't bend and collapse. Also
tying up the taller flowers so they remain vertical. The
borage especially as it grows very heavy. Cutting back some
encrouching squash and cardoon leaves as they are quite
big and tend to block the sun from nearby plants. I finally
got some corn seeds in the ground and several of them seem
to be growing. I can't wait to get that corn; not to eat or pop,
but because it's so crazy beautiful.
After monitoring everything, especially the special ones
I focused on the flowers and shot a few pictures.
Flower Island is just getting lusher and lusher. I have begun
clipping off branches to bring to the shoe store.
This is a volunteer tomato plant. It's quite healthy. No BER
yet; hopefully there won't be any. This appears to be a heirloom
variety; exactly what it is will probably never be known.
This is known as a "White Scallop," a very ancient Native
American heirloom squash, grown by the Northern tribes for hundreds
of years. This type was depicted by Europeans back to 1591,
and is one of the best-tasting and highest-yielding varieties still
around today! Great fried or baked!
This is a close-in view of Flower Island.
Here are a couple of Celosia varieties, just getting started.
This is a Queen Like Blush zinnia.
