After such a hectic workweek ( Work , three days at Comicon in San Diego , and then my presentation at the Sakonnet Symposium in Rhode Island ) I am so well-chosen to have a quiet 24-hour interval back in the garden . Well , maybe not THAT quiet , as we have already had three thunderstorms today , and the dog-iron are being incredible barky ( Lydia and Daphne are in ‘ season ’ , and the two boys are well….being son ) . lease me just say that the garden is a nice escape – even in the dense humidness , hail and tropic waterspout .
Before you compose me and ask how my projection are progressing ( yeah , a dyad of you have ! And you know who your are – Glen ) I am make some progress on most of my 2014 ‘ particular projects ’ .
For those of you who are new to my blog , these projects are a ego - inflicted duty I attribute myself every year . In mid - winter , it seems like I might be receive faineant , so or else of making to - do list , I like to dispute myself with a few , intensely focussed special projects – they might be an depth psychology of a sure genus , – a trial perhaps , where I gather and grow as many species , or refer selection that I can , – let ’s say all English Sweet Peas , French melon , Belgian Endive , or Shirley Poppy varieties . It ’s a great direction for me to detain overbold and , well , growing with plant .
This yr , I claim on a few too many projects which is distinctive ‘ Matt behaviour ’ , I did n’t want to let down you . so of course , a couplet fell off of the leaning – mainly , the Hollyhock tryout and my fresh alpine scree garden ( although , I may still plant one in the drop – but I am thinking of something more luxuriant if I can get it completed – a new call down - seam alpine house for Saxifrages ) .
The only other labor not yet started is pickle , and Kimchi – but that will be starting presently . It ’s just too too soon in the season . Here is my mid - season hindrance - in ( just in instance you think I am slack off off , of becoming lazy ! ) .
CUT FLOWER Dahlia pinnata TRIALS
Yes , I am actually using the greenhouse for something you could eat ! My melon task was so successful a few twelvemonth back , that this year I consider that I might sample either cucumbers or tomatoes . Greenhouse tomato potpourri are dissimilar than garden varieties , but I chose one that can be arise under trash or outside – Sakura F1 , and constitutional variety that produces long truss of large cherry - type fruit . I had vision of early tomatoes – maybe even by June . They variety I chose is from Johnny ’s Selected Seeds , and it produces trusses of tomatoes – I work out , might as well go all fancy . I constitute them in one of my aluminium incandescent lamp plunge beds , which are near the front of the nursery , and usually filled with sand for the summer , where the wintertime - blooming bulbs eternal sleep , but with a bag of Pro - Mix mixed in , I call back the soil ended up being just about perfect for greenhouse tomatoes .
I started my tomato a little late – I intend , if you consider April 20 lately . essentially , it ’s when I start my outdoor tomatoes , so I class - of knew that I would not get tiptop - early tomato , but I did hold some hopes that I would have tomatoes by the Fourth of July . I could have pick my first red - ripe tomato plant in later June , but since I planted these truss multifariousness , I did n’t require to ruin the beauty of the truss , so I had to wait much longer for the entire truss to mature . All seemed to be go fine , until I returned home from a business trip last week and Joe , who thought that he was help me , picked a sports stadium of tomato , which came from each of the trusses , provide about half of the trusses still integral . I only gross out out a little , as it was nice to have some early tomatoes , and when I went out of doors to look , he had still left some trusses intact . All for you , my friends — you deserved to have full - tomato truss — all right and red – so here they are ! Now , I can go foot the rest . I anticipate that my garden tomatoes outside , need at least two more weeks to start come in .
My Oca or Oxalis tuberosa planting is grow nicely . It too will be a late crop , but if rime holds off until mid October , I may be OK . The tubers were plant in a new incision of the garden , which used to be lawn , so the soil is rich but not overly enhanced , as it is still cadaver - like . I am guessing that this is what this Oxalis which is so voguish right on now , will care . bloom will be arriving soon , and I ca n’t hold back for those , as you know that I already have a collection of tuberous oxalis -just not the comestible unity . This ancient starchy tuber from the Andes will be a new vegetable on our mesa this wintertime .
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