Hey guys,
Just a quick note to say, the new planting season is upon us. I’ll begin posting again and sharing my brand new garden apartment with you.
SPOILER ALERT: we are in a drastically different climate now.
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Friday, February 4th, 2011Growth spurt!
Tuesday, April 6th, 2010Wow, the hot weather really slammed us this week. March ended with unseasonably warm days in the upper 60s and lower 70s, then April showed up and WHAM! We hit 93 the first week.
This past week has definitely been beneficial for my sun-lovers, let me tell you. We went from this delicate-veined zucchini unfolding…
…to this brawny, raucous crew in just seven days.
*tear* They grow up so fast!
But seriously though, it has been a whirlwind. Even the sugar snap peas, a cool-weather crop if ever there was one, has benefited from the influx of hot, sunny weather. They’ve been doing some serious chorophylling.
This is the biggest, already at eight inches tall.
Is there ANYTHING more adorably curly and optimistic than pea tendrils?
Two-week-old peas!
Wednesday, March 24th, 2010
So here are my two-week-old baby sugar snap peas. They’re only about three or four inches tall, but they’re growing really vigorously. Almost every day they unfold new pairs of leaves and those creeping curious tendrils.
Here’s a closeup:
You can see they’re next to a wicker and yarn structure, right? That’s a handmade trellis; I bought some cheap bamboo rods from the hardware store’s garden section, and used some extra yarn to bind them together.
Pretty nifty, huh? It’s easy!
Just make sure to wrap it around each individual stake as you go. It stabilizes the tension and creates a nice structure for the peas to cling to.
I am ALIVE!
Monday, February 15th, 2010Hi everybody,
I’m SUPER excited about setting up this blog. It’s my first real piece of online real estate. Thanks for reading me, and please subscribe!