The avocado seeds are still rooting in paper cups of water.
X-mas cactus is growning nicely.
X-mas cactus is growning nicely.
A. Non
Farm and Market update for the Emperors' phantom garden...
Just a quick update to our previous updates... insert in section 3, para 4, subsection 6
We have some extremely lovely tomato plants and cucumbers and peas ... still not yet purchased from the nursery... but waiting I'm sure for our appearance.
The very clever gravity watering system that has been designed to avoid standing in the brutal summer sun, is still in parts in the bags purchased from the hardware store 2 years ago... apparently we forgot to get the 'self-assembling' version !?
We are in the midst of a terrible drought – we are 22 inches below our normal waterfall... with little hope of any rain yet ... this is the longest drought in Texas since the 30's !!
Because of the dire drought we have been reluctant to actually get a garden started ... notwithstanding our laziness to actually 'follow thru' ! Frankly we are drinking what water is actually still available!
Stay tuned for further updates on the Emperors' phantom garden!
Just a quick update to our previous updates... insert in section 3, para 4, subsection 6
We have some extremely lovely tomato plants and cucumbers and peas ... still not yet purchased from the nursery... but waiting I'm sure for our appearance.
The very clever gravity watering system that has been designed to avoid standing in the brutal summer sun, is still in parts in the bags purchased from the hardware store 2 years ago... apparently we forgot to get the 'self-assembling' version !?
We are in the midst of a terrible drought – we are 22 inches below our normal waterfall... with little hope of any rain yet ... this is the longest drought in Texas since the 30's !!
Because of the dire drought we have been reluctant to actually get a garden started ... notwithstanding our laziness to actually 'follow thru' ! Frankly we are drinking what water is actually still available!
Stay tuned for further updates on the Emperors' phantom garden!
KimB
We have strawberry flowers! 6 lovely flowers have popped up so far. I shall now have to give some serious thought to setting up my bird-netting system which means YATTTS (yet another trip to the store).
We have tomatoes on both plants now and they are starting to get respectable in size.
Hilled up one of the potatoes and need to do the other pot. They are growing really fast! A long time ago, another gardener friend had told me that if you give too much fertilizer to potato plants, they don't produce many potatoes just plant. I used this advice for years: skimping on the plant food and getting teeny tiny marbles for potatoes. It became sort of a joke with Allen that we couldn't grow potatoes at all. This time I am changing things up. I have reversed the plan and given the taters lots of TLC in the form of organic fertilizer. Even if we don't get taters, the plants look happy - well ecstatic is more like it.
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| Strawberry Flowers |
We have tomatoes on both plants now and they are starting to get respectable in size.
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1 comment:
1 potato, 2 potato, 3 potato, 4!
Y'all makin' us want a lovely salad with fruit for d-zert!
Great updates - Keep'em commin' !
Fun stuff!
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