...but whatever. Let's take a little tour of the garden in its current state, shall we?
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| The Anise and California Poppies are doing well. The tall poppies and anise shot up a good 3-4 inches in the last week! A couple of the poppies are smaller, and look weak, but they have little flowers, so who knows? |
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| The lemon tree was looking droopy and the leaves were yellowing, which we realized could be from overwatering. We are letting it dry out a bit, and it seems to have perked up a little in the last couple of days. |
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| The rose bush, which we staked to the wall during my birthday garden party, is climbing nicely. See it peek into the office window? |
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| The little blue button (or whatever) flower has a couple of little buds! |
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| Tomato Row, with a giant freaking marigold. Seriously, that thing has grown so tall and has yet to falter -- it's like, freakishly strong! |
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| Spinach is not looking so hot; it's still got these dry spots, and a couple caterpillar holes (though I think the caterpillars are gone, after my spray down rampage). |
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| Squash is going nuts; it's huge and basically taking over the middle of the garden (duh). I counted 3 blossoms and a couple of buds! |
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| Strawberries...oh strawberries...what happened? After the squirrel stole the 3 berries that were showing up, it just hasn't looked good. |
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| Slightly blurry beans. Some yellowing leaves, but otherwise they look good. It's going to be time to tie them to the fence soon. How long before we get beans? |
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| Oh sweet peas. I'm sorry I planted you behind the tomatoes and the tomatoes grew faster than you did. I don't know if I can save you. |
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| Parsley looks good, with a random flower that popped up in the middle (see the purple dot?). Tomatoes and basil behind! Nasturtium popping up through the fence, naturally. |
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| Cucumber plant leaning towards the sun. I don't know how this one's going to do, honestly. It's not growing at nearly the same speed as the squashes (squash? today we decided that the plural of squash should be squosh) are, though it gets almost the same amount of sun (I think. Less, but I don't think a LOT less). |
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| The rainbow chard is coming back from its caterpillar disaster, but not as quickly as I'd like it to. Come back, rainbow chard! |
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| The kale is doing well, though the leaves are pretty narrow? Narrower than the ones you get at the store, I think? Still, they are strong and grew back well after I picked a bunch last week. You can kind of see the peppers behind/to the right of the kale, which are getting taller but I have no idea if/when we'll get peppers. |
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| Garden overview shot. Sunflowers to the right, standing tall. |
Note: I took these pictures before watering, so everything looks pretty dry. Any questions about my garden? Advice about the spinach (or anything else)? Let me know! :)
