Just Tickety-Boo
Everything has been growing just tickety-boo lately! We had a very dry June, but I still didn’t need to water the in-ground box garden very much at all. The tomatoes in containers needed daily watering, though. For the last couple of days we’ve had a soft Vancouver drizzle, which everything seemed to enjoy quite a lot. A few notes and observations on the gardening project this year:
- the strawberries have formed as if they were melting. The tops are shiny and stretched looking. I’ve never seen this before, but they taste great so I won’t worry.
- the zucchini, squash, and pumpkin patch needed a hard trimming session last week. It was threatening to take over everything.
- the tomatoes are much better this year. Last year their bottoms rotted out of the fruit, but this year the yields look good even though everything (except a few) is still green.
- compared to last year, this year’s cilantro was a disaster. Last year I grew it from a seedling in an herb box, and it did well. This year I tried to grow from seed and they each sent up one little stalk about 5″ tall, and now those are already going to seed with no leaves in sight.
- the pepper plants have grown well, but the fruit seems to be very slow in coming. I’m not sure if they will riped in time.
- the green onions are fabulous, but 6 sets was a bit too much for my needs. Maybe 2 next year would be better.
- the celery is extremely bitter and stringy. Not sure what I did wrong. They grew just fine, though.
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