Garden update

Ok, my computer has been um, sick, for the last month or so. and by "sick" i mean overheating and melting power cords. No joke. i've had to use it over a boxfan. notice 1)the boxfan 2) the bootleg powerplug adapter that was spliced together. so yeah, that's been the main cause of my lack of posting anything. it's just too much of a hassle. and no, that is not harry potter on my screen fyi, haha.




but believe it or not i finally upgraded. Say hello to the new Vaio from Sony. I'm pretty pleased with it. the Ariel sticker got replaced too later :) webcam, i3 processor, DDR3 ram all that good junk. i'm still getting acclimated from the XP to windows 7 jump tho. thank god for the Vista bypass... note the lack of boxfan!!!


Ok, we'll start with the vegtables. The lettuce is crazy big. we've been eating it but we've noticed that the older it gets that the more bitter tasting it becomes. note for next season: eat while less mature. the bowl is from when they were a bit younger. it was pretty neat to eat something i grew for the first time.





The spinach did well also, i've been hitting them from time to time and filling my belly with them. Dad noticed one of them has formed a head of some sort on it. when i get my gardening book back from my neighbor i'll look it up. harvesting seeds would be neat to do, even though they are crazy cheap. i need to make sure i'm harvesting them at the right time and just freeze or store them if i have too much. i haven't had the time to weed recently. :(


The broccoli still isn't doing much. i'll have to look into it when i have more time. i dont know if i should worry or if it's normal yet.

Ah the asparagus. Poor miserable looking little guys. It's only the first year for them so its to be expected but they are so frail and funny looking for asparagus. they're like little tiny furry trees. its kinda cute.

the peas though are just coming through like man-men. my dad told me he just randomly goes up there in the morning and takes him off a hefty helping. he said he's taken like a pound or 2 off already, but that's a lot of peas... i donno. anyway, they're awful pretty.

this one on the right was taken before they actually started producing peas. i dont know why i like the macro function making the forground all out of focus but i do.

that whole vegetable bed needs to be turned 90 degrees so they get more light. i can tell by the gradual change in growth rate from the front to the back that the back ones get much less light. 

the tomatoes are really letting me down though so far. seeing everything else going makes me want to see huge red globes hanging everywhere. they're trying tho, bless their little tomato hearts (or lack of at the moment). this one shown is the determinate but the sweet 100's i planted are showing even less growth. they are only showing 2 small leaves and are still in small sprout mode. i'm thinking i need to move them to a more spacious area with better soil. i noticed that with the annuals when i took them out of the shallow seed-starting trays and into their own paper pots i made, they just took off like crazy.

Have to get ready for work but next post i'll do the flowers and some nice results with the SIP planters (i think its gonna be a mainstay now) and one of my interesting screw-ups resulting in pink falling leaves. sigh, yeah. and i dont mean raising poinsettias unfortunately :( oh and all the little buggies crawling around in my veggies - both the goodies and the baddies (baddies: like it's some saturday morning cartoon or something? ha)