Late Spring in the Garden...
Mar. 5th, 2011 01:51 pmPretty much all the Winter veggies are done, with the exception of the Spinach and the Swiss Chard. The early Spring veggies are up and growing: Japanese Turnips, Daikon, Green Onions, Lettuce, Mitsuba(a Japanese Green similar to Parsely in use) and White Beets.
The Roddenberry Snowpeach is in full bloom. Hopefully, it'll have morethan one fruit this yr and the bird's will leave it be...yah right;>. The Shinseki Asian Pear's forming flowerbuds. The Honsui's still completely Dormant. This isn't a Good Thing since 'H' needs a Pollinator. I guess I better save some Pollen just in case. Everything else is breaking Dormancy except the Bananas. Thye Budd's Blood Orange is covered with buds. Hopefully this yr it won't be a singelton Orange as it has in the last two yrs. Everything except the Dormant trees got Fertilized...
Am really taken by the Okinawan Spinach I got off E-Bay(I'd been looking for it for more than a decade) in the Houseplants section of all things. It raw tastes like SPinach with Pistachios. A list friend sent me a cutting of a near relative that has a more Spinach taste. Both a close relatives of the Purple Passionvine Houseplant..which is probably why it ended up in that dept. Not Hardy but easily Rooted so it can be overwintered on a windowsill.
All the Tomatoes, Peppers and Eggplant have Germinated and the 3 hybrid Tomatoes are so far along they're in qt containers! The Peppers are all up to compots with their 1st true leaves. For Hot we have Serrano, Limon(my fav from Peru)and Tobago(literally, a Hot Pepper from a farmer's market on the Ilse of Tobago). The Sweets are King Arthur and Flavorburst, Red and Yellow Peppers respectively.
3 Tomatoes from last yr's trial are back, Bali(a red from Bali;>),Pink Bertua and a stabilized hybrid Sungold II. I've found that non-Red tomatoes are less damaged by birds so I tend to grow them.
Cheers,
Pat
The Roddenberry Snowpeach is in full bloom. Hopefully, it'll have morethan one fruit this yr and the bird's will leave it be...yah right;>. The Shinseki Asian Pear's forming flowerbuds. The Honsui's still completely Dormant. This isn't a Good Thing since 'H' needs a Pollinator. I guess I better save some Pollen just in case. Everything else is breaking Dormancy except the Bananas. Thye Budd's Blood Orange is covered with buds. Hopefully this yr it won't be a singelton Orange as it has in the last two yrs. Everything except the Dormant trees got Fertilized...
Am really taken by the Okinawan Spinach I got off E-Bay(I'd been looking for it for more than a decade) in the Houseplants section of all things. It raw tastes like SPinach with Pistachios. A list friend sent me a cutting of a near relative that has a more Spinach taste. Both a close relatives of the Purple Passionvine Houseplant..which is probably why it ended up in that dept. Not Hardy but easily Rooted so it can be overwintered on a windowsill.
All the Tomatoes, Peppers and Eggplant have Germinated and the 3 hybrid Tomatoes are so far along they're in qt containers! The Peppers are all up to compots with their 1st true leaves. For Hot we have Serrano, Limon(my fav from Peru)and Tobago(literally, a Hot Pepper from a farmer's market on the Ilse of Tobago). The Sweets are King Arthur and Flavorburst, Red and Yellow Peppers respectively.
3 Tomatoes from last yr's trial are back, Bali(a red from Bali;>),Pink Bertua and a stabilized hybrid Sungold II. I've found that non-Red tomatoes are less damaged by birds so I tend to grow them.
Cheers,
Pat