Thursday
Jun092011
Garden journal: what's thriving?
Don’t you just love it when things work?
In the frenzy to get a summer garden going before leaving for book tour, I completely forgot about my little seed packet of tomatillos. Luckily here in Austin we get a late summer window for planting tomatillo starts. I hope these little guys grow big and strong in the coming weeks.
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I’ll be honest, I find garden planning pretty stressful. There are just so many things to consider, many moving parts that can affect a plant’s success. I look upon friends’ gardens sometimes with envy, wishing mine was as big and wild, as tangled with thrush and opulence. For the time being, I count alive as success.
What’s working for you in the garden right now?
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Garden & Outdoors, Gardening
Garden & Outdoors, Gardening
Reader Comments (10)
Due to an addition I have a lot of plants that had to be moved and right now they are doing pretty well. To be honest I might have cried more than a bit if the cherry tree I planted when my daughter was born had died.
My spearmint plants are taking over. Well, not quite. They're contained in a nice little pot. But they're thriving!!
My kale plants are also doing pretty well.
it's our first year of gardening, but all kinds of things seem to be doing well - the arugula is growing faster than we can eat it up, the carrots are rocking hard, most of our tomato seedlings seem to have survived my rough transplanting technique, cucumbers are doing well, and the beans and squash hardly took any effort at all...
peppers and eggplant, on the other hand, we ended up replacing with store-bought young plants (and seem to be fine now), and i'm a little worried that our okra doesn't seem to be doing much of, well, anything...
My horseradish is doing rather well. The walking onions seems to be on their way to their first steps. The blueberry bushes have some fat green berries on them at the moment. The mustard is flowering beautifully and the nasturtiums are coming right along.
Look at your little tomatillo babies!!!! I'm sure they'll grow to be big and strong and will end up making a killer salsa.
My chinese neighbor gave me some seed pods (beans? peas?) and assured me they would vine and produce pretty purple flowers followed by edible pods that could be stir-fried. I planted them under a dead Japanese Maple, which will be their trellis. No flowers yet, but the plants are large and strong. Jack in the Beanstalk beans????? Hmmmmm.
This is my first year gardening at our new home. I'm container gardening on the deck due to a large deer population. So far I have tomatoes, sweet and hot peppers, radishes and herbs that seem to love the heat from the deck and the south/west exposure. The radishes germinated so well I'm going to have to pull up some sprouts to thin them out.
We just finished up spring planting in northern New England, and promptly left on vacation. So, it will be a surprise to see how things look when we get back. We had a lot of rain, but the marigolds weren't completely washed away - hoping they might start blooming soon.
My tomatoes are still alive! This is my first garden of my own ever, and my tomamtoes are alive! My watermelons are not.
everything we planted is pretty much kicking ass! we have 3 types of tomatoes, corn, 5 types of peppers, watermelon, lopes, cukes, zuke and yellow squash. we even have a GIANT pumpkin plant that is growing like a beast. it's for the husbands fun...he wanted to grow a huge pumpkin...I am so looking forward to eating all of this stuff!