So I was away for almost 2 weeks and I came back to a huge mess of a patch, dying seedlings and bald rose plants. Some of strawflower, most of the 2 parsleys and all my sage seedlings died. Am pretty sad about this. Let's talk about something else, my plot to happiness.
Look how much they have grown! Oh, the grass and weeds were overtaking the plot though.
The lettuce have grown quite a bit too! Those are cotton plants in single pots. Should be transplanting to ground soon.
My blueberry is drowning. It's been raining very heavily lately. Quite a bad idea to plant it in this Ikea hole-less pot so I've transferred it to a regular pot.
I've cut down the sweet potato which was overtaking the plot. I think I should be able to harvest the potatoes soon too.
The greens that I chopped off.
This poor cabbage seedling etiolated after being covered by the sweet potato.
Many of my bean plants died including all of the berlotti beans before I left due to the hot weather. But I was pleasantly surprised to find that 2 french beans survived and are flowering. It has to be the sweet potato greens that spread all the way and covered the ground.
The red okras decided to grow pods when I was not around so I came back to many overgrown pods. I will save seeds.
Didn't expect the Japanese cucumbers to flower so soon. It looked like I'm gonna have a lot of cucumbers.
Carrots are doing pretty well too.
Magda Zucchini are growing pretty wild, one of them grew very big but her flowers are dropping so I cut her smaller. I noticed the smaller plant does better with the flowers.
The chinese kale ave overgrown and some have bolted. I will try to save their seeds.
Broccoli is growing steadily and in different pace as if I did successive planting which I didn't.
The cabbages are also growing as if it was a succession planting (no it's not) but one of the cabbages multiplied on the head after the bud was attacked by some slug.
This is the textbook bud - hopefully it will start to form the head.
Transplanted some of heirloom tomato seedlings before I left but only one survived. I reassigned the berlotti bean plot to tomato and I used the weed mat. Maybe the weed mat absorbed too much heat.
I'm letting an Edamame plant to seed.
Harvest! Plucked most of the red okras and some edamame for snack. Only a couple of the red okras are edible, the rest will be seeds meanwhile edamame was extremely yummy after a quick boil and tossed with salt! The best!
The big daddy.
Sigh. My seedling trays.
My sole radish plant. Sowed and transplanted some seedlings before I left but that time was just too hot. I should sow more.
The plot after cleanup.
Mexican Giant sunflower didn't turn out to be giant!? Look how tiny they are! They are no more than 3 feet.
Anyway! My loot from the trip
These packets are pretty as heck!
Perennial Bloom Mixture:
1. Basket of Gold (Sp) 2%
2. Black-Eyed Susan (S/F) 2%
3. Blanketflower (S/F) 7%
4. Candytuft (Sp) 6%
5. Carnation, Double (S) 6% %
6. Columbine, McKana (Sp) 2%
7. Coneflower, Pink (S/F) 5%
8. Coneflower, White (S/F) 1%
9. Coreopsis, Lance-leaved (S) 4%
10. Dianthus, Spring Beauty (Sp) 4%
11. Daisy, Shasta, Alaska (S) 4%
12. Forget-Me-Not, Woodland (Sp/S) 2%
13. Gayfeather (S/F) 6%
14. Lupine, Bigleaf (Sp/S) 28%
15. Mexican Hat (S/F) 1%
16. Moss Verbena (S) 4%
17. Oxeye Sunflower (S) 8%
18. Penstemon, Rocky Mt. (S/F) 3%
19. Wallflower, Siberian (Sp) 5%
(from
Botanical Interests)
