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7/11/18
One of my favorite things about the garden is finding out what plants are going to grow on their own. Last year there was dill and tomatillos EVERYWHERE. This year there is dill, cilantro, tomatillos, sunflowers, potatoes (still not sure how that one happened) and what I assume is a pumpkin vine, judging by its dinner-plate-sized leaves. Behold:
That’s one of the potato plants in the middle of the path. I figure if it wants to grow there That Badly - pushing through cardboard and woodchips to get its way - then what the heck. It’s welcome. I hilled up around it and let ‘er rip. There’s another potato on another path and other two others on the hugelmound with the green beans.
Dill. It’s so prevalent that it’s practically a weed by this point...but I still love it.
A tomatillo plant - looking a bit chewed up by cucumber beetles, which apparently also love tomatillo leaves, but surviving...hopefully enough to satisfy my need for fresh salsa verde.
The happiest pumpkin vine I’ve ever raised, and I didn’t even plant it. (Maybe next year I’ll just throw handfuls of seeds everywhere and walk away, leaving everything to its own devices, since they seem to do better without my “help.”) I took this photo a week or two ago and the leaves are easily twice this size now.
I enjoy a little anarchy in my garden. Like sunflowers growing smack in the middle of the paths, for instance.
The stuff I actually planted on purpose is doing well, too - I’m especially hopeful about the melons. Mmm good. And the green beans are starting their run, which means I’ll be canning dilly beans soon - YAY! Never enough dilly beans.
One of my favorite things about the garden is finding out what plants are going to grow on their own. Last year there was dill and tomatillos EVERYWHERE. This year there is dill, cilantro, tomatillos, sunflowers, potatoes (still not sure how that one happened) and what I assume is a pumpkin vine, judging by its dinner-plate-sized leaves. Behold:
That’s one of the potato plants in the middle of the path. I figure if it wants to grow there That Badly - pushing through cardboard and woodchips to get its way - then what the heck. It’s welcome. I hilled up around it and let ‘er rip. There’s another potato on another path and other two others on the hugelmound with the green beans.
Dill. It’s so prevalent that it’s practically a weed by this point...but I still love it.
A tomatillo plant - looking a bit chewed up by cucumber beetles, which apparently also love tomatillo leaves, but surviving...hopefully enough to satisfy my need for fresh salsa verde.
The happiest pumpkin vine I’ve ever raised, and I didn’t even plant it. (Maybe next year I’ll just throw handfuls of seeds everywhere and walk away, leaving everything to its own devices, since they seem to do better without my “help.”) I took this photo a week or two ago and the leaves are easily twice this size now.
I enjoy a little anarchy in my garden. Like sunflowers growing smack in the middle of the paths, for instance.
The stuff I actually planted on purpose is doing well, too - I’m especially hopeful about the melons. Mmm good. And the green beans are starting their run, which means I’ll be canning dilly beans soon - YAY! Never enough dilly beans.