gardening updates, Friday 6/30/17 and Sunday 7/2/17
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Gardening update: Friday, 30 June 2017
I took photos of my plants on Wednesday the 21st, before I left on vacation, and I photographed them again today (Friday the 30th). As you can see, they grew a lot!
All four of my squashes seem to be flourishing. A few leaves have been nibbled, and their tubs were full of mulberries and mulberry seedlings, but I spritzed them lightly with insecticide (most of which then washed off in afternoon rainstorms...) and removed the mulberry intrusions with extreme prejudice.
I still think I will eventually have to reposition the tubs so the squash don't overrun the peppers, but they should be okay for another few days at least.
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Gardening update, part 2
And then some ASSHOLE came along and ATE my baby pepper.
*frowns repressively at local squirrel population*
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Gardening update, part 3
Generally speaking, the baby peppers are doing well. The ones with crinkly leaves (which I blame on chemical sensitivity, mostly) are still crinkly, but growing, so I am still pretty sure they'll get past that and put forth less weird leaves in future.
Pepper B5, which was savagely beheaded a while back, continues to recover. It has grown one leaf of reasonable size (though somewhat peculiar shape), and is now attempting a second.
Pepper E6, on the other hand, has not grown much at all, and frankly I'm starting to wonder if it might be this year's Lazarus pepper -- i.e., afflicted with fusarium wilt. Anyway, I sprayed fungicide around its roots, and hopefully that will help.
Peppers C6 and D1 were apparently just a little too close to the artificial waterfall that pours down from the gutter right over my kitchen window, as their planter's soil is drenched. I nudged the planter a couple inches southward, and am considering putting some kind of cover over the dirt tomorrow morning since there's a lot of rain predicted for Saturday.
And I think that's everything for now. :)
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Gardening update: Sunday, 2 July 2017
I rearranged everything today, because the squash were getting large enough to overshadow the nearby peppers and I would kind of like the peppers not to die. *wry* I will probably leave Sethera, Azer, and Covera roughly where they are, but Tan (the smallest squash, in the foreground) still lacks a permanent home.
(I know where you probably think I should put it, based on this photo. And I would do that, except the logical position -- to the right of Sethera and in front of Covera -- is exactly where the gutter waterfall crashes down and I have no interest in smashing and/or drowning my plants.)
The other development of note is that SETHERA IS BLOOMING!!! :DDD Squash flowers are so pretty, and soon I will have actual summer squash to pick and chop and store in the freezer... and probably also foist off on unsuspecting neighbors and members of my church, as one does. But right now I am mostly at the YAY FLOWERS!!! stage, which is a very pleasant stage indeed. :DDD
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Okay? Good. Here goes.
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Gardening update: Friday, 30 June 2017
I took photos of my plants on Wednesday the 21st, before I left on vacation, and I photographed them again today (Friday the 30th). As you can see, they grew a lot!
All four of my squashes seem to be flourishing. A few leaves have been nibbled, and their tubs were full of mulberries and mulberry seedlings, but I spritzed them lightly with insecticide (most of which then washed off in afternoon rainstorms...) and removed the mulberry intrusions with extreme prejudice.
I still think I will eventually have to reposition the tubs so the squash don't overrun the peppers, but they should be okay for another few days at least.
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Gardening update, part 2
And then some ASSHOLE came along and ATE my baby pepper.
*frowns repressively at local squirrel population*
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Gardening update, part 3
Generally speaking, the baby peppers are doing well. The ones with crinkly leaves (which I blame on chemical sensitivity, mostly) are still crinkly, but growing, so I am still pretty sure they'll get past that and put forth less weird leaves in future.
Pepper B5, which was savagely beheaded a while back, continues to recover. It has grown one leaf of reasonable size (though somewhat peculiar shape), and is now attempting a second.
Pepper E6, on the other hand, has not grown much at all, and frankly I'm starting to wonder if it might be this year's Lazarus pepper -- i.e., afflicted with fusarium wilt. Anyway, I sprayed fungicide around its roots, and hopefully that will help.
Peppers C6 and D1 were apparently just a little too close to the artificial waterfall that pours down from the gutter right over my kitchen window, as their planter's soil is drenched. I nudged the planter a couple inches southward, and am considering putting some kind of cover over the dirt tomorrow morning since there's a lot of rain predicted for Saturday.
And I think that's everything for now. :)
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Gardening update: Sunday, 2 July 2017
I rearranged everything today, because the squash were getting large enough to overshadow the nearby peppers and I would kind of like the peppers not to die. *wry* I will probably leave Sethera, Azer, and Covera roughly where they are, but Tan (the smallest squash, in the foreground) still lacks a permanent home.
(I know where you probably think I should put it, based on this photo. And I would do that, except the logical position -- to the right of Sethera and in front of Covera -- is exactly where the gutter waterfall crashes down and I have no interest in smashing and/or drowning my plants.)
The other development of note is that SETHERA IS BLOOMING!!! :DDD Squash flowers are so pretty, and soon I will have actual summer squash to pick and chop and store in the freezer... and probably also foist off on unsuspecting neighbors and members of my church, as one does. But right now I am mostly at the YAY FLOWERS!!! stage, which is a very pleasant stage indeed. :DDD
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