morning in the garden
Jul. 12th, 2008 10:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lindajI got up and went out to the garden before breakfast. I spent some time examining what plants were producing what, and then ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
terse_scribe came outside and we spent some time watching the bees moving from squash blossom to squash blossom. There was a real bee fiesta going on. We saw several types of bees, including bumble bees, honey bees, and some sort of tiny little gray bee. I'm not sure how often honey bees are found in the wild, so I wonder if a neighbor might have a hive.
The Roma tomatoes are setting fruit, as are the grape tomatoes. They look a long way away from ripening, though.
There are itty-bitty cucumbers forming on the cucumber vines. I'd expected the cucumber to be a bush, but it seems to be a vine. I'll need to do something about staking or caging.
Our zucchini plant is starting to form zucchinis, and I expect we'll be able to harvest the first one or two sometime next week. The vining Italian zucchini that the neighbor gave us is setting fruit, too. The yellow summer squash is lagging, though, with mostly male blossoms so far. There seem to be one or two female blossoms so far, so hopefully the yellow squashes will start to catch up soon.
We've got some volunteer squashes, which showed up whensabrinamari and I turned the compost in the space that would become the garden. I still don't know what kind they are, but they are beginning to set fruit. I hope they'll be identifiable soon...and though it's probably unlikely, I also hope that we'll have more than one kind among them.
The herbs are doing well. The green basil, purple basil, and bell pepper in the self-watering planters are growing like mad.
It's a good garden year, in spite of starting late and not really having time to do things the way I should.
terse_scribe came outside and we spent some time watching the bees moving from squash blossom to squash blossom. There was a real bee fiesta going on. We saw several types of bees, including bumble bees, honey bees, and some sort of tiny little gray bee. I'm not sure how often honey bees are found in the wild, so I wonder if a neighbor might have a hive.The Roma tomatoes are setting fruit, as are the grape tomatoes. They look a long way away from ripening, though.
There are itty-bitty cucumbers forming on the cucumber vines. I'd expected the cucumber to be a bush, but it seems to be a vine. I'll need to do something about staking or caging.
Our zucchini plant is starting to form zucchinis, and I expect we'll be able to harvest the first one or two sometime next week. The vining Italian zucchini that the neighbor gave us is setting fruit, too. The yellow summer squash is lagging, though, with mostly male blossoms so far. There seem to be one or two female blossoms so far, so hopefully the yellow squashes will start to catch up soon.
We've got some volunteer squashes, which showed up when
sabrinamari and I turned the compost in the space that would become the garden. I still don't know what kind they are, but they are beginning to set fruit. I hope they'll be identifiable soon...and though it's probably unlikely, I also hope that we'll have more than one kind among them.The herbs are doing well. The green basil, purple basil, and bell pepper in the self-watering planters are growing like mad.
It's a good garden year, in spite of starting late and not really having time to do things the way I should.
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2008-07-12 04:48 pm (UTC)About the bees, I always get a few honey bees on our oregano and thyme plants every summer. I know there's someone who keeps bees just over than a mile from here, although a friend who has also kept bees thinks they're more likely to come from a wild hive since I guess "tame" bees don't tend to wander very far.
Last week I dumped a bunch of year old sprout seeds into the compost because they would barely start in my sprouter anymore, but now there's a huge crop of mung beans and broccoli in the compost. They must have found the compost heap so much more stimulating!