garden! garden!
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keryxI think that my tomatoes all grew 6 inches yesterday. I planted them a little too close together, and now they look... well, rather ominous for tomatoes. This yard is looking as a whole a bit like a Hawaiian zoo. The early girls are already making baby tomatoes. [There's a bad innuendo in there somewhere.] I should have some yummy veggies to share this summer. Tonight I had basil I grew myself. That was tasty.
Also thriving: the cucumber and squash plants the birds didn't nom as seedlings, the two princess trees (Audrey III and IV) in the back corner of the yard (which I am likely not killing, though they are invasive and monstrous), the pokeberries (aka Moses Myers berries, one of the best smelling things ever and arguably native, which I am definitely not killing - though they are rapidly approaching 8 ft tall, no lie), bananaish peppers, jalapenoish peppers, the eggplants, the basil, cilantro, the lilies and roses, everything on the upstairs porch, the jasmine, and DEAR $DEITY the morning glories and moonflowers and climbupis - anything that can twine around anything else is going mad in the backyard - the pear tree, several young treeshrubs of indeterminate origin, an infestation of english ivy (ARGH), some sort of maniacal wood strawberry that ate my compost pile, and of course... weeds, some quite impressive.
Not thriving but not dead: lavender, both fig trees, grape vines, onions, the hydrangeas, spinach & swiss chard, some soon-to-be weird green zinnias.
Possibly dead, or at least shy: hibiscus (I hope soon to be supplemented with rose of sharon, also a hibiscus), rhubarb, brussels sprouts, chives, grass that isn't technically weeds. I think I may have planted sunflowers and radishes, but I don't recall.
Ghosts: the poor hanging baskets on my front porch. Tragic, really. The flowers were such interesting colors.
Also thriving: the cucumber and squash plants the birds didn't nom as seedlings, the two princess trees (Audrey III and IV) in the back corner of the yard (which I am likely not killing, though they are invasive and monstrous), the pokeberries (aka Moses Myers berries, one of the best smelling things ever and arguably native, which I am definitely not killing - though they are rapidly approaching 8 ft tall, no lie), bananaish peppers, jalapenoish peppers, the eggplants, the basil, cilantro, the lilies and roses, everything on the upstairs porch, the jasmine, and DEAR $DEITY the morning glories and moonflowers and climbupis - anything that can twine around anything else is going mad in the backyard - the pear tree, several young treeshrubs of indeterminate origin, an infestation of english ivy (ARGH), some sort of maniacal wood strawberry that ate my compost pile, and of course... weeds, some quite impressive.
Not thriving but not dead: lavender, both fig trees, grape vines, onions, the hydrangeas, spinach & swiss chard, some soon-to-be weird green zinnias.
Possibly dead, or at least shy: hibiscus (I hope soon to be supplemented with rose of sharon, also a hibiscus), rhubarb, brussels sprouts, chives, grass that isn't technically weeds. I think I may have planted sunflowers and radishes, but I don't recall.
Ghosts: the poor hanging baskets on my front porch. Tragic, really. The flowers were such interesting colors.
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