To Reach the Sun
The sun has been fairly regular for weeks now and the rain has been nowhere to be seen, which is highly irregular for Vancouver, Canada. But as long as I’m around to water the plants when they get thirsty, I’m happy that they’re happy.
What’s new this week? One of my potato quarters that I had stuck in the garden about a month ago finally showed itself as a sprout a few days ago. The nicotania flowers are going absolutely crazy, and even my heliobore, which I had my doubts about, seems to be content.
As for the tomatoes, my “Tumbler” variety has some nearly golf ball sized green fruit on it. The others are still putting energy into flowers. Interestingly enough, some tiny sprouts that I had thought were cilantro in my pepper pot turned out to be baby tomatoes! I’ve never had it happen before, but possibly some tomato roots could have been left behind when I separated out the tomato seedlings and peppers from the big pot I had them in previously? Has anyone else experienced this? Anyway, I now have five bonus tomato plants, but they’re very wee. I doubt they will grow fast enough to have fruit at this point.
I still haven’t acquired a “poro poro” like I had last year for my patio. It’s a lovely Australian tree with beautiful purple flowers, but is a bit difficult to source around here. They aren’t hardy below 8C, so last year’s winter killed my previous poro dead.
Onward and upward, as they say! Grow babies, grow!
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