by plantgirl on July 14, 2008
The heat of the summer is fully here - and although some of my sfg squares are empty most are full. The strawberries that didn’t produce all June are finally fruiting - and the June-bearers are done. The beets seem to be doing good but I am having a hard time telling them apart from the swiss chard. Beets should be ready for eating soon and I can’t wait - it’s taken forever!! My tomato plants bottom leaves have been dying and turning yellow but the Radiator Charlie plant is starting to blossom, and the Cherokee purple [click to continue...]
by plantgirl on June 3, 2008
Yesterday I found one of my strawberry plant’s had died and my spinach has not grown - and it is now (finally) getting too hot for them to do good anyway - so I will probably just pull them up and put something else in.
My beets were doing good - until I became too focused on checking my strawberry plants and turned to see my 2 year old had pulled most of them up. She gave me her intent “I am a good helper!” look and what could I do? Seconds before she had been gently patting the dirt down around some very established strawberry plants. I have to admit I don’t appreciate this sort of help but it still was cute.
She also likes eating strawberries - including green [click to continue...]
by plantgirl on May 27, 2008
by plantgirl on May 21, 2008
Here is the picture of my recently planted strawberries. There are two different varieties here - I can’t remember what the ones on the left are but the ones on the right (with actual strawberries) are Ozark Beauty.
This just looks so [click to continue...]
by plantgirl on May 19, 2008
The seeds I planted directly in square foot garden boxes for beets, Swiss chard and spinach are finally coming up!! Meanwhile, it’s been HOT outside. Tomorrow it is going to be almost in the 90’s then Wednesday will go back to normalish at 60 degrees. Been working on my garden while my 2 year old [click to continue...]
