Greenies!
I finally got around to taking pics of the garden. Or well, there was finally something to takes pictures of other than just pots of dirt with a few stray green sprigs.
This is an overall view. On floor on the far end is my Early Girl tomato. In between are stir fry broccoli and mustard spinach.
This one was planted a little more than a week before the other. Look! Itty biity broccoli! I shall be feasting on their little bodies in about a week to 10 days.
And the mustard spinach needs a delicious thinning again. It's already been thinned once when they were tiny and not very bitter. I just grazed and munched through the pots like a cow.
Sitting on top of the a/c unit at the far end are the spinach, lemon thyme and Greek oregano. Not where the herbs usually sit.
On the bench across the front of the balcony are where my tomatoes and peppers will go in about a month. Phouka's lush grass box is underneath. The nursery is to the far left - 3 kinds of summer squash and 3 kinds of cucumbers and a couple of sunflowers. I'll probably plant them next weekend in their forever homes - 2 big tubs like the one under the nursery.
On the left are my two pots of beautiful, bushy snow pea in their little cat's cradle of string with nary a pod on them yet. Pea shoots are tasty also. I'm looking at you unproductive snow peas!
To the far right are the two pots of kale - Nero Toscano and Blue Curled (they both look pretty much alike at this stage). Woah! That's kind of a dizzying angle.
The one on the left is a mishmash of snow peas that finally decided to half-assed come up, a couple of transferred kale, some arugula and some anemic looking red bunching carrot sprouts.
On the left side of the balcony hanging over the railing into thin air are 2 boxes of mixed Asian salad greens. They struggled to come out but they've tripled their size in the last week.
At the opposite end over the railing are the toy choy (baby bok choy) and tatsoi (another form of bok choy that grows in flat rosettes). There are more of each of them at the other end of each box with a no-man's-land in the middle. I need to spread them out so they can stretch their tender little legs and grow deliciously.
And here's the end right outside the door with (from left to right) my trusty garlic chives that have been with me for going on 10 years, the Boston fern I adopted from certain death last year, underneath you can barely make out peppermint which will fill that whole box by mid summer and my old parsley (there must be a hell of a root on that thing by now) with new tiny parsley-ettes growing at her feet.
As you can see the nectar feeder is up and ready for the Northern orioles and hummingbirds. That coco-matt hanging basket (and another at the other end) are for flowers, hopefully next weekend.
And lastly, a really blurry night-time shot so you can see the lights. I need to re-string the white lights above and I haven't quite figured out what to do with the newer colored, flower shaped ones strung along the railing.
There's no flash in this picture, that's how bright it is on my balcony at night thanks to the huge-ass light just about 3 yards away and my strings of lights. I like it. It's nice and cheery when I get up at 2 am and stare bleerily out into the not-so darkness.
Well, that's it. I'll take more pics when the wave of spring greens is gone and the summer plants are out and growing big.
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This is an overall view. On floor on the far end is my Early Girl tomato. In between are stir fry broccoli and mustard spinach.
This one was planted a little more than a week before the other. Look! Itty biity broccoli! I shall be feasting on their little bodies in about a week to 10 days.
And the mustard spinach needs a delicious thinning again. It's already been thinned once when they were tiny and not very bitter. I just grazed and munched through the pots like a cow.
Sitting on top of the a/c unit at the far end are the spinach, lemon thyme and Greek oregano. Not where the herbs usually sit.
On the bench across the front of the balcony are where my tomatoes and peppers will go in about a month. Phouka's lush grass box is underneath. The nursery is to the far left - 3 kinds of summer squash and 3 kinds of cucumbers and a couple of sunflowers. I'll probably plant them next weekend in their forever homes - 2 big tubs like the one under the nursery.
On the left are my two pots of beautiful, bushy snow pea in their little cat's cradle of string with nary a pod on them yet. Pea shoots are tasty also. I'm looking at you unproductive snow peas!
To the far right are the two pots of kale - Nero Toscano and Blue Curled (they both look pretty much alike at this stage). Woah! That's kind of a dizzying angle.
The one on the left is a mishmash of snow peas that finally decided to half-assed come up, a couple of transferred kale, some arugula and some anemic looking red bunching carrot sprouts.
On the left side of the balcony hanging over the railing into thin air are 2 boxes of mixed Asian salad greens. They struggled to come out but they've tripled their size in the last week.
At the opposite end over the railing are the toy choy (baby bok choy) and tatsoi (another form of bok choy that grows in flat rosettes). There are more of each of them at the other end of each box with a no-man's-land in the middle. I need to spread them out so they can stretch their tender little legs and grow deliciously.
And here's the end right outside the door with (from left to right) my trusty garlic chives that have been with me for going on 10 years, the Boston fern I adopted from certain death last year, underneath you can barely make out peppermint which will fill that whole box by mid summer and my old parsley (there must be a hell of a root on that thing by now) with new tiny parsley-ettes growing at her feet.
As you can see the nectar feeder is up and ready for the Northern orioles and hummingbirds. That coco-matt hanging basket (and another at the other end) are for flowers, hopefully next weekend.
And lastly, a really blurry night-time shot so you can see the lights. I need to re-string the white lights above and I haven't quite figured out what to do with the newer colored, flower shaped ones strung along the railing.
There's no flash in this picture, that's how bright it is on my balcony at night thanks to the huge-ass light just about 3 yards away and my strings of lights. I like it. It's nice and cheery when I get up at 2 am and stare bleerily out into the not-so darkness.
Well, that's it. I'll take more pics when the wave of spring greens is gone and the summer plants are out and growing big.
This entry was originally posted at http://ixchel55.dreamwidth.org/353254.html. Please comment there using OpenID.