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Meanwhile, out in the garden
Jun. 3rd, 2005 04:00 pmIt's about time we got some decent weather, so we can put all the plants we've been buying into the ground. The same thing always seems to happen: while we're buying th plants I keep thinking "Where are we going to put all thgis stuff?" Then it turns out we didn't get enough and we still have some holes to fill.
The lettuce and beets are still very tiny, especially the second crop (which wasn't planted until the middle of May). Maybe now that they're getting some light and warmth they'll step up.
The tomatoes and the four-o'clocks both developed some kind of disease after they were transplanted outside (this often seems to happen). The leaves wither and turn brownish-gray, but they continue to produce new growth. I've sprayed with Orthonex Disease and Insect Control a couple of times (including this morning). We'll see. If the four-o'clocks don't make it we'll just put some other flowers there (salpiglossis?), but good cherry tomatoes are hard to find in plant form, and yellow/orange ones are almost impossible.
Meanwhile I've started finding places for the zinnias that I started indoors (having had little success in the recent past starting them outdoors), of which there also don't seem to be quite enough. And a good many of them {like the holes in Blackburn, Lancashire) are rather small.
We will have strawberries!
The lettuce and beets are still very tiny, especially the second crop (which wasn't planted until the middle of May). Maybe now that they're getting some light and warmth they'll step up.
The tomatoes and the four-o'clocks both developed some kind of disease after they were transplanted outside (this often seems to happen). The leaves wither and turn brownish-gray, but they continue to produce new growth. I've sprayed with Orthonex Disease and Insect Control a couple of times (including this morning). We'll see. If the four-o'clocks don't make it we'll just put some other flowers there (salpiglossis?), but good cherry tomatoes are hard to find in plant form, and yellow/orange ones are almost impossible.
Meanwhile I've started finding places for the zinnias that I started indoors (having had little success in the recent past starting them outdoors), of which there also don't seem to be quite enough. And a good many of them {like the holes in Blackburn, Lancashire) are rather small.
We will have strawberries!
