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Saturday, June 23, 2007
Weekend Update 2007-06-23
Oops - Forgot this one last time - it's hanging on it's own hook now.
It's fighting gravity and winning at the moment. Hoping to have some
flowers and tomatoes within a few weeks.
The Japanese Tomato Ring tomatoes are starting to blossom. They're
still smaller in height and "slower" than the ones in containers. The
difference being that the container tomatoes are in potting soil
(Miracle-Gro brand), and are aided with some time-release fertilizer as
mentioned before. The garden tomatoes are smaller still.
I'te getting crowded in here! There's also a lttle beetle that I've
been looking for on google and so far haven't found. Thought it was a
bird dropping on the leaf, but when I tried to flick it off with a
stick, it raised up and moved... Next time I see them (if I haven't
wiped them out with my organic mint spray - a neurotoxin for most
insects), I'll photograph them and put them in a bottle for safe
keeping...
There are the the Matt's Wild cherry tomatoes that were in the
hydroponic solution. Both doing fine, the bottles have timed-release
fertilizer in them, and that's where I water them.
Beyond that, the strawberries I'd gotten via freecycle.org last year are
bearing fruit. Friends of ours also told us to make three beds: one for
this year's strawberries, one for this year's runners, and one for the
third year's runners, rotating back to the first, since the berries will
get smaller and smaller.
Asparagus is "ferning", hope to have a grand
harvest in a couple of years, and will continue to enjoy the sparse crop
from the three I'd started from seed three years ago.
The rest of the
garden's growing and blooming, and the compost heap has so many pumpkin
starts that I may begin to give them away too, or put them in where I
haven't started anything yet.