We’ve had some rainy weather lately. That’s good for everything around here. The slugs and snails have been out. I see lots of them as I’m walking to work. Fortunately I haven’t seen them going after our porch garden. Aphids, yes. They haven’t been too bad. Since the garden is so small it’s easy enough […]
Monthly Archives: May 2004
Update: More flowers
The garden is in bloom! The Cocozella di Napoli is blooming and so is our rose bush. The plants in the Earthboxes continue to do well. We have two new lettuce plants just coming up, the tomatoes and squash plants are getting larger and larger, and the basil and bell peppers are starting to take […]
1st Bloom
Our largest/oldest zucchini plant has opened it’s first flower. Several of the others should be opening soon. Hopefully this will lead to fresh zucchini before too much longer. All-in-all the porch garden is going well. We’ve been fighting off aphids with the simple squish ’em method of pest control. The plants are all growing larger. […]
Lost Lettuce
One of the lettuce plants was lost yesterday. The stem broke off at the soil. It was very thin at that point. I think it just broke under it’s own weight, maybe with a bit of encouragement from the wind. When Kate found it it had been lying out in the sun and was quite […]
Turned around
Yesterday I turned around the squash Earthbox to give the smaller plants more sun. The first Napoli plant has grown so large it was shading the others too much. With it in the back the younger plants should get more sunshine. That is, if it gets sunny. We’ve had cloud cover most of the day. […]
Rearrangement, planting
We rearranged the layout of the porch garden a bit so that the little gem lettuce get more shade from the post and the bell peppers are more in the sun. Plus I transplanted the new Napoli into the Earthbox. Six zucchini/yellow squash plants could potentially produce quite a lot. We’ll have to find lots […]
