September 11, 2005
End of summer garden blog
Just posted a new garden blog at You Grow Girl. Updates on the garden plot, and a bunch of photos of the community garden.
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End of summer wrap-up
Hey everyone! Hope the rest of your summer has been going well! As you may or may not recall, things got off to an incredibly slow start this year due to all the rain that we got out west. But, as it?s better late than never, we eventually got out and weeded some of the plot and planted a few veggies. 3 out of 6 have made it, which I actually think isn?t too bad considering.
Say hi to a friend (or foe?) crawling around in our plot:
The losers:
The zucchini seeds I used were old, and didn?t germinate. The radishes grew quickly, only to be eaten up by either bugs or beasts, and be left to turn into mush. The carrots are terribly stunted, either from the weather, late planting, weed overgrowth (it?s embarassing, trust me), or a combination of all this, and I don?t think that we?re going to get to eat them anytime soon.
The winners:
Peas
I planted two varieties or seeds I had leftover, Novella (no-staking), and Little Marvel (extra sweet), and both did pretty well. The shells are tough, but I shucked some for our salads last night, and they were sweet and delicious!
Beans
For beans, I planted leftovers as well, two kinds of Bush Bean?Greencrop, and Improved Golden Wax. Both did quite well, though the golden seem to have attracted the same little black aphids that did so much damage to my patio herb garden earlier this summer. The tops of some of the beans were just covered in the little buggers.
Parsnips
A handout from one of the other gardeners who has just thinned his. I pulled one out, and although the stalks are big and lush, the parsnip was only a couple inches long. We?re going to leave them in as long as we possibly can.
The community gardens are gorgeous right now, so I took some extra shots around some of the other plots:
