Garden Pics
Today I potted up all the plants that were looking desperate for it: various basils, the cucumbers, the peppers, the oldest pumpkins, and the epazote. The peppers are looking pale and wan - I sunburned them early on and they haven't really recovered, so I'm not sure they're going to make it, but I'm still hoping. All in all, I wore myself out, lugging around containers of soil and just being on my feet for about 4 hours this afternoon (ankle wasn't happy with me), but I'm feeling good about what I accomplished.
(Note: There's a mix of pictures here from the last week. I realized when I went to upload the pics, that I had color corrected those from today with f.lux on, which meant that my screen had a tint to it. Not full tint, thankfully, but if they look a little off, you know why. I was far too tired to re-do them. Of course, that doesn't even count all the pics taken on dark, overcast days. Arrrgh.)
This is what most of the leaves looked like on Sunday.
The most advanced case by far - this is the Grape tomato plant that I didn't mean to buy!
The weapons supplies: 1 qt. water to mix with copper fungicide, spray bottle, scissors, and a mason jar of bleach water for the scissors to go in between plants. Also useful: breeze and sunlight. (This isn't an off-tint picture - this is the camera compensating for bright sunlight. I think. It's the new Fuji.)
The closest thing I have to an overall before picture. Whoops.
After - bowed, but not unbeaten. They sat outside (NOT TOUCHING) for a day (and those nice, sturdy stems held up against some stiff winds quite well), then I brought them back into the greenhouse (STILL NOT TOUCHING) and sprayed them again, since it had rained while they were out there. As long as it's not washed off, they just get sprayed every 7 days. I also fertilized them with Miracle-Gro for Tomatoes to help keep their strength up. (I decided to use the MG because I wanted the high nitrogen content to help aid new leaf growth.)
This was taken today. I've pulled off a few more leaves and isolated one from the rest in the container shelter (see below), but they're holding their own and even growing a bit. The important part is that there hasn't been a continued mass die off of leaves.
This is why there are fungal issues. From the blogs I've been perusing, I'm hardly the only one having problems this year. In this area we've had record breaking rain fall.
The yard's, erm, a bit too wet to mow. Granted, this bit happens to be scrubby anyway, but the other side of the driveway is nearly up to my hips in places. There's been quite a few riding lawnmowers obviously bogged down in wet yards lately - just sitting in the yard and apparently abandoned. This entertains me immensely. The ones that do manage it have muddy tire tracks everywhere the mower went.
In front of the greenhouse.
The White kohlrabi are enjoying it, at least.
Around back we have some wee baby kohlrabi, too. These are Kossak and Korist.
The Red Russian kale are quite pretty.
The Red choi and Da Cheong Chae are gorgeous.
And the spinach really needs harvested tomorrow - it's bigger now and something is munching on it.
The Dwarf sugar peas have put on flowers and they're gorgeous!
Even if I'm not entirely sure why they're called 'dwarf' peas. Sheesh. The Tom Thumb peas are half a dozen plants down in front and do actually have a few pods that I'm just waiting on to fill out (they're regular shelling peas, not sugar peas).
Inside the greenhouse, the main problem is now the sunflowers. Those are roots in the bottom of one of the trays - overgrown and horribly tangled. It's still a toss-up as to whether they'll survive transplant or not
The herbs are hanging in there well, though.
The overcrowding situation. On the right: sunflowers (mostly past the pics edge), onions, leeks, and herbs. Behind those, the oldest pumpkins. On the left: peppers, melons, younger pumpkins, watermelons, cucumbers, epazote, and possibly other things that I've forgotten. Behind all of those are, obviously, the tomatoes.
This is the expansion section that will go in the middle of the greenhouse this summer. I'm calling it the 'container shelter' at the moment for lack of a less confusing name. It's housing the basil transplants, small seedlings, and a number of containers that are newly seeded as well as mixed containers of new seeds plus kale, cabbage, and swiss chard. This way, they're sheltered from the (sometimes strong) rains we've been having so the very tiny seeds aren't washed away. There's also the one outcast tomato.
The onions are looking good! I'm really glad I planted them in the flats that I did this year, instead of all grouped together.
The oldest pumpkins were attempting to grow legs and walk themselves out to the garden (man, would they have been disappointed once they made it out there).
So they were potted up. I have no idea where these nice, large pots came from (read "D brought them home from somewhere"), but they came in handy today. There's a container type mix happening with the soil - it's half potting mix and half manure, with a ring of Plant-Tone fertilizer an inch or so down.
THANK YOU. It's raining right now (again *sob*) and there's a hell of a lot of water to dry up, but between the (more or less) sunny days and moderate winds, I might actually be able to plant by the end of next week!
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comments. Comment here or there. ♥ Blue :)
(Note: There's a mix of pictures here from the last week. I realized when I went to upload the pics, that I had color corrected those from today with f.lux on, which meant that my screen had a tint to it. Not full tint, thankfully, but if they look a little off, you know why. I was far too tired to re-do them. Of course, that doesn't even count all the pics taken on dark, overcast days. Arrrgh.)
This is what most of the leaves looked like on Sunday.
The most advanced case by far - this is the Grape tomato plant that I didn't mean to buy!
The weapons supplies: 1 qt. water to mix with copper fungicide, spray bottle, scissors, and a mason jar of bleach water for the scissors to go in between plants. Also useful: breeze and sunlight. (This isn't an off-tint picture - this is the camera compensating for bright sunlight. I think. It's the new Fuji.)
The closest thing I have to an overall before picture. Whoops.
After - bowed, but not unbeaten. They sat outside (NOT TOUCHING) for a day (and those nice, sturdy stems held up against some stiff winds quite well), then I brought them back into the greenhouse (STILL NOT TOUCHING) and sprayed them again, since it had rained while they were out there. As long as it's not washed off, they just get sprayed every 7 days. I also fertilized them with Miracle-Gro for Tomatoes to help keep their strength up. (I decided to use the MG because I wanted the high nitrogen content to help aid new leaf growth.)
This was taken today. I've pulled off a few more leaves and isolated one from the rest in the container shelter (see below), but they're holding their own and even growing a bit. The important part is that there hasn't been a continued mass die off of leaves.
This is why there are fungal issues. From the blogs I've been perusing, I'm hardly the only one having problems this year. In this area we've had record breaking rain fall.
The yard's, erm, a bit too wet to mow. Granted, this bit happens to be scrubby anyway, but the other side of the driveway is nearly up to my hips in places. There's been quite a few riding lawnmowers obviously bogged down in wet yards lately - just sitting in the yard and apparently abandoned. This entertains me immensely. The ones that do manage it have muddy tire tracks everywhere the mower went.
In front of the greenhouse.
The White kohlrabi are enjoying it, at least.
Around back we have some wee baby kohlrabi, too. These are Kossak and Korist.
The Red Russian kale are quite pretty.
The Red choi and Da Cheong Chae are gorgeous.
And the spinach really needs harvested tomorrow - it's bigger now and something is munching on it.
The Dwarf sugar peas have put on flowers and they're gorgeous!
Even if I'm not entirely sure why they're called 'dwarf' peas. Sheesh. The Tom Thumb peas are half a dozen plants down in front and do actually have a few pods that I'm just waiting on to fill out (they're regular shelling peas, not sugar peas).
Inside the greenhouse, the main problem is now the sunflowers. Those are roots in the bottom of one of the trays - overgrown and horribly tangled. It's still a toss-up as to whether they'll survive transplant or not
The herbs are hanging in there well, though.
The overcrowding situation. On the right: sunflowers (mostly past the pics edge), onions, leeks, and herbs. Behind those, the oldest pumpkins. On the left: peppers, melons, younger pumpkins, watermelons, cucumbers, epazote, and possibly other things that I've forgotten. Behind all of those are, obviously, the tomatoes.
This is the expansion section that will go in the middle of the greenhouse this summer. I'm calling it the 'container shelter' at the moment for lack of a less confusing name. It's housing the basil transplants, small seedlings, and a number of containers that are newly seeded as well as mixed containers of new seeds plus kale, cabbage, and swiss chard. This way, they're sheltered from the (sometimes strong) rains we've been having so the very tiny seeds aren't washed away. There's also the one outcast tomato.
The onions are looking good! I'm really glad I planted them in the flats that I did this year, instead of all grouped together.
The oldest pumpkins were attempting to grow legs and walk themselves out to the garden (man, would they have been disappointed once they made it out there).
So they were potted up. I have no idea where these nice, large pots came from (read "D brought them home from somewhere"), but they came in handy today. There's a container type mix happening with the soil - it's half potting mix and half manure, with a ring of Plant-Tone fertilizer an inch or so down.
THANK YOU. It's raining right now (again *sob*) and there's a hell of a lot of water to dry up, but between the (more or less) sunny days and moderate winds, I might actually be able to plant by the end of next week!
Crossposted to Dreamwidth where there are
comments. Comment here or there. ♥ Blue :)